1982A museum opened in Magnolia Library Center and the Magnolia Historical Society was formed.People and Communities, Local Organizations

The Magnolia Historical Room in the library contained paintings by Frank Knox Morton Rehn, photographs, postcards, maps and other memorabilia on loan from private collections and the Cape Ann Historical Association.
Gloucester Daily Times. "Magnolia opens its own 'museum' at library center." August 31, 1982.