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1689 to 1814 - Time Line of the French and Indian Wars' by Helen Magargal, paper read at the Grand Opening Program in 1999.

Article by Arthur Capen on the History of the Worthington Library, dated when the Library was 46 years old. Arthur Capen was librarian.

Code for school house interior paint and cost of painting.

By Alice Steele as told to Lucy Whitmarsh on December 1, 1975. On Capen District School House.

Clement Burr address to WHS Meeting, August 21, 1934, handwritten notes on corner by Arthur Capen. Typed legal size paper, includes transcription of discussion after address re Burgoyne's March through Worthington during American Revolution. Cross…

2 copies Edward Clark article on 'The Hatfield Grant', seven pages. including Walter Stevens Letter dated Dec. 17, 1943.

The map was made by Lois Ashe Brown in celebration of the Bicentennial. See also 2004a-036 (this is second copy)

Walter Stevens writes about Jonathan Brewster. Another copy in genealogy Box 52

Original typewritten paper by Beverly F. Smith. A two page assessment of Worthington's participation in the Civil War. Includes a list of soldiers who died in the Civil War.

Copy of article on War in Viet Nam, dated Dec. 1967, written by Lois Ashe Brown. Probably from Berkshire Eagle. Article cites Steve Donovan.

Includes article from New York Tribune, map of proposed trolley location, 'An Act of Incorporation to incorporate the Huntington and Westfield River Railway Company 18 1903, 8 pages of pasted newspaper clipping on same subject

Description of the Thrasher family. In the 1940's Burton Hill Road was changed to Thrasher Hill Road. See Genealogy.

Elizabeth Payne typed History of Western Massachusetts. (Do we have a copy?) Hampshire County, the Hatfield Grant, the Plantatons, the Proprietory Period, the Edgerton Papers, Act of Incorporation.

Paper delivered at WHS, no date, re floods. Also includes discussion. Typed.

Edward Clark article on 'Lost Industries in Worthington' read at the Worthington Grange, Nov. 22, 1932. Typed three pages. See Box 40.

2 copies of Harold Parmalee 17 page paper ' Life in the Country at the Beginning of the 20th Century'. Dated 2/10/1964. Typed on onion skin (second copy - photocopy).

Original typewritten paper called 'The Impact of the Civil War on Worthington as shown by Town Meeting Records 1861-1866'. Ten page paper; verso page 9 has handwritten list of names in the Worthington Regiment (Ward, Brewster, Kenney, Watts,…

Typewritten address read at the WHS meeting on July 8, 1939, by Sydney Smart re the Flood of 1878. Refers also to discussion between Mr. Stevens and Mr. Smart.

Remarks of Daniel R. Porter to the Worthington Historical Society August 26, 2000. This must have been a speech delivered to the Society by Daniel R. Porter

Walter Stevens 'History of Worthington' Early Settlers, 44 pages, plus 3 page appendix. Two copies, typed. Bee Smith transcribed and updated January 2006.