So thought a small group of citizens who gathered in the directors’ room of the Athol Co-operative Bank on July 25, 1953. They formed the Athol Historical Society, which was incorporated December 14, 1953. Mrs. Eida Limbach Waterman provided free quarters to the Society until September 9, 1957, at which time your Historical Society purchased from the Town of Athol, for one dollar, the old Town Hall at the corner of Main and Liberty Streets.