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This marblized note book with red binding is a record of side walk maintenance between the Corners and the Center in 1907. It was kept by Katharine McDowell Rice ""for reference."" The note book also contains loose papers. Formerly identified as…

Record of money orders issued by the post office. Includes the names of many townspeople. Covers the period 1892-1935.

1. Record of Preston, CT marriages (Griswold Section) 1720 - 1799 Includes Kinne, Prentice, Meach, Hatch, Randall, Starkweather, Coit, Burton, Brewster, Leonard.
2. Record of Preston, CT Includes Kinne, Meech, Benjamin, Hazen.

This item is a bound journal containing minutes of meetings of the WHS for the period 8/16/1987 through 4/25/1993. Green cardboard binding.

Worthington Historical Society Records, May 19, 1992 - September 21, 1996':. This bound booklet contains mintues of meetings. The cover is blue.

WHS meetings, minutes and notes from 1976-1988.

These papers are not the same as large book (see 43-04) which is missing as of this date (2 copies). WHS Possessions in the library and items at Capen/Riverside School (most of these have been brought to WHS by Ted Claydon); file boxes in vault at…

Record book from various school districts dating 1857-64. Written in ink in front. Most pages are written in pencil. Lists residents of districts and what they owned. Has scant reference to schools but does include data on Districts listed: #3, #5,…

Original handwritten statement of account of Lyman J.Tower against William Hartwell of Cummington, 1856-1857. Blue ledger paper, both sides

Legal documents pertaining to Rolland estate items at WHS.

Records dated December 13, 1843. Lists students for both winter and spring terms, 1843-1844. Brown paper cover; handwritten title; records on inside handwritten on lined paper. Beautiful penmanship but not published as are some others.

Accounts dated December 13, 1843, beginning with winter term, 1843-1844 and spring term, 1844-1845. Accounts pertinent to each student as well as to expenses for running the school. James C. Rice listed as student. Contains slip of paper writing…

1) Indenture contract of Benjamin E. Green, indentor of his son Jobe, to Elisha Brewsters 2/27/1790'; See also Box 29d. 2) Woodbridge House - Heyl Associates; See also Box 35. 3) Copy of Hampshire Gazette article re: $1.7 million to town, civic…

Inventory of Rice Room material at the town library. IDENTIFY. The WHS has been given permission by Edwina Sebest to take the material from the Rice Room, catalog it, and keep it at the Archive building. The transfer will be made in the summer of…

Cummington Church and Town records from 1834-55, p.44. (belongs in Ephemera - Box 66 series) Regarding the tearing down of Cummington Church building. Typewritten. Copy mailed to Cummington Historical Society

Call to annual meetings 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988. File includes meeting agenda. Items included include discussion on baseball played in 1868. Letters between Elisha Brewster and Walter L. Stevens re Historical Society…

Record book dates from 1848 to 1881. From School District #11. Handwritten in ink in ledger book. Contains lined paper pages handwritten changes according to clerks. Clerk 1: Cyrus Parsons 2: Aaron Stevens 3: Lafayette Stevens 4: H. E. Tower 5:…

The porch on this house collapsed in a snowstorm on January 17, 1949. Photograph shows foundation after repairs.

Typed letter to Lois Ashe Brown from Verna Borst, Sept 4, 1994, with recollections of the Wets Worthngton Church.

2001 Program of Worthington's WWII Veterans Day Commemoration which was held at the Town Hall and video taped by Jerome Noonan and Ed and Helen Pelletier. The tape was donated to the Historical Society and is in Box 46.