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The Bayberry Barn Christmas Shop is a family-owned and operated store in the heart of New Hampshire's Lake Sunapee region. Located in our 150-year-old renovated barn, we offer complete lines of all your holiday favorites, plus new gift items and our own line of gourmet specialty food items. We're open year-round, so come and experience Christmas in New England - all year long!

 

HOURS:
Mon - Sat: 10 am to 5 pm
Sun: 11 am to 4 pm
Note:  We will be
CLOSED the entire
month of March 2008.

 
Address:
Route 114
PO Box 178
North Sutton, NH  03260
603-927-4120
Out of Local Calling Area: 
1-800-806-2897
Pay NO Sales Tax
on sales in NH!

 

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The Legend
of Bayberry...

"A Bayberry
candle burnt to
the socket

puts luck
in the home,

food in
the larder,

and gold
in the pocket."

 

True Bayberry Candles
6" Boxed Pair - $8.95
8" Boxed Pair - $10.95

True Bayberry Candles - boxed

Why not give a loved one or friend the gift of a bayberry candle and
share a centuries old tradition of that wonderful holiday scent
and the wish of Good Fortune, Health and Prosperity.

We carry genuine bayberry candles made from the wax of the berries of the Bayberry shrub. 

Bayberry candles and the traditions we associate with them began during colonial times. When colonists and early settlers boiled the fruit from the waxy grey "berry" of the hearty native "Bay" Berry shrubs along the Eastern Coast, they found it left a fragrant wax on top of the water. Better still, the bayberry wax was harder and more brittle than the beeswax they were using.

Although making bayberry candles was considerably more effort, the colonists discovered that they burned longer and cleaner, with a brighter light than other candles. Because they took so much effort to make, many families saved them for special occasions, such as Christmas and New Year's Eve.

Eventually, burning bayberry candles on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve became tradition, and even inspired the saying, “Bayberry candles burned to the socket, puts luck in the home, food in the larder, and gold in the pocket."

Another tradition was for sweethearts who were separated on Christmas to burn bayberry candles; legend said that the couple would be united by the candles' lovely scent.

 


Place your order via phone at 603-927-4120 or Toll Free 1-800-806-2897 or use our email order form.  Pay NO sales tax!

 

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$150.01 to $250.00

 

Shipping and Handling Charge

$6.99
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