The collection, which was owned and used in the Lake Sunapee area by summer resident Frank L. Boyden, Headmaster of Dearfield Academy for an unbelievable sixty-six years, from 1902 to 1968, comprises four vehicles: a pair of two-seated carriages, one painted black and one natural wood, and two single-seated buggies. Boyden kept a dozen more buggies and four horses at his home in Massachusetts and in 1953 wrote: "I am really quite lonesome as I go out, because I guess I am the last one driving a horse." He never learned to drive his black Cadillac but in later years sped around the school's campus on a golf cart. The four carriages were bequeathed to the Society upon his death in 1972.

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