Jaffrey Speedway & Hobby Slot Car Racing 7 Knight Street, Jaffrey, NH 03452, 603-532-9515, See the huge racetracks for the small cars. They also have an arcade and are perfect for parties. more...

Kimball Farms P.O. Box 382, Jaffrey, NH 03452, 603-532-5765, Featuring a 6000 square foot bumper boat pond with waterfalls, 36 holes of miniature golf, a nine hole pitch and putt course, a driving range, a luncheon grill, and over 40 flavors of ice cream. more...

Meeting House (circa 1775) This building was raised the day of the Battle of Bunker Hill. The Bell Tower and spire were added in 1822, and a bell cast by the Paul Revere Foundry was installed in 1823. Religious congregations used the building until 1844. It housed various activities throughout the 19th and the early 20th centuries, including town meetings, town offices, and school rooms. It was restored in 1922 by the Village Improvement Society in collaboration with the town, and during the summer hosts the Monadnock Music concerts and The Amos Fortune lecture series.

Amos Fortune Grave Site Amos Fortune arrived in New England as a slave, but purchased his freedom in 1769. He moved to Jaffrey with his wife Violet (a former slave whom he had purchased) and became a successful tanner, leaving bequests to the church and school when he died in 1801. Jaffrey residents started the Amos Fortune Forum in his memory in 1947.

Buddy Memorial Virgo Brandt-Erickson, a Danish sculpture and artist of much talent constructed a plaster image of the "Buddy Memorial" in 1928. He built the memorial out of a stone taken from Jaffrey. The massive 40 ton stone was moved to East Jaffrey over a six week period. Mr. Erichsen began construction of the memorial which took him almost two years. On Armistice Day, November 11th, 1930 the Memorial was dedicated where it sits today.

Cathedral of the Pines 10 Hale Hill Road, Jaffrey, NH 03461, Nearby Rindge, 603-899-3300, 866-229-4520, Cathedral of the Pines is a place of spiritual nourishment for people of all faiths. It is also a national memorial to patriotic sacrifice, a physical declaration that we will not forget those men and women who have served our country. The sense of peace engendered by the tall pines that form its natural surroundings is conducive to prayer and meditation. Its peaceful, garden-lined walk ways contain serene, inspirational landscapes as well as quiet spots for prayer and mediation. There is a gift shop on site and guided tours are available. more...

Hannah Davis Grave Site In the Cemetary Behind the Meeting House, Hannah Davis (1784-1863) made and sold the country's first wooden bandboxes, covered in colorful papers and used for jewelry, hats and even suitcases. Davis chose the trees to be logged and invented a foot powered machine which would slice thin sections. "Aunt Hannah" drove her wagon to nearby mills towns to sell the boxes - featured in Godley's Ladies Book - to the women workers.

Soldiers Rock Route 124, Jaffrey, NH, On Mountain Road West of Monadnock, On one expedition through Jaffrey during the Revolutionary war, it is said on the authority of old families in the neighborhood, a company camped for the night on the so-called Fassett Place beside a large boulder a few feet south of the road. In the night, one of the soldiers, whose name is unknown, died and was buried beside the boulder, giving it its name, "Soldiers Rock", by which is still known today.

Willa Cather Grave Site The Author Willa Cather (1873-1947) spent the fall months in Jaffrey from 1917 until 1940. She completed "My Antonia" here and wrote portions of many other books. She asked to be buried in the old burial ground, and tokens visitors leave by her grave pay homage to her work.

Melville Academy (circa 1883) 603-532-7455, Jonas Melville and friends funded this private, co-educational High School. It closed as a private institution in 1859 but reopened as a town school in 1863 and remained a school until World War I. In the 1960's, the Village Improvement Society repaired the building and made it a local history museum. more...