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Daily Hampshire Gazette page 1 and A4 story written by Sean Reagan on 'Potato Empire down to dust - foreclosure auction final blow for grower - Albert Farms a Legacy Undone' about auction on August 19, 2006 which was nullified and another was held…

Softcover book: A Graveyard Primer' by Lynette Strangstad, ASSLH (American Association for State and Local History) Press, 1988, second printing, 1990. 126 pages with index and black and white photographs. On loan to Pat Kennedy 6/9/07.

Brown paper-covered scrapbook with black pages, contains black and white photographs and newspaper clippings showing the history of the Frederick Sargent Huntington (FSH) Library from groundbreaking on Aug 17, 1914. Includes groundbreaking, Lafayette…

Rough draft of a paper prepared on the schools in Worthington complete with notes taken from 1900. Most likely this was also reported to the Historical Society as a paper by Beverly F. Smith. Given to Sara Upton by Dick Smith after the death of 'Bee'…

News reports of fire at Justamere Tree Farm, the house of J. P. and Marian Welch in October 2004. Excerpts were included in the republication of Papers on the History of Worthington. This was the second fire they sustained on their property, the…

Donald Ives wrote this extensive weather report for the town complete with 6 charts to summer 2007 for inclusion in the republication of Papers on the History of Worthington

Paper cover Book - Hawley Massachusetts the First Fifty Years 1770-1820 by Harrison Parker. According to Frank Feakes this is a wonderful example of a town publication. Published by Sara Publishing, Amherst, MA, 1992. Mr. Parker apprently died before…

Copy of 1873 map transferred from Box 43, formerly numbered 2005a-154 with various miscellaneous papers, still numbered 2005a-154.

Map of Huntington MA is published by Beers in 1873, reproduced by Huntington Historical Society in 1987

Centennial Program from Worthington Golf Club, 1904-2004, also recorded in 'Papers of Worthington' 2007

Cole, Drake, Sanderson, Thrasher genealogies. Papers of Drake-Thrasher reunion. Note: misspelling of Thrasher as Thresher (similar to tombstone in Ringville cemetery).

Recollection writtten by Muriel Pease Boisseau; plus obituaries for Reginald Pease (her brother), March 2, 1964 and Effie Pease (her mother), 3/9/1936, plus article about electrocution death of Maurice Pease, 7/28/1948. Includes note mailed to…

Genealogy for the Dan Pease family in Worthington from 1802 through ca. 1942. Prepared Barbara Palmer Pease. Not immediately related to the Chauncey Pease family.

Genealogy for the Bigelow family from beginning in Worthington, 1805 through 1873

This Old House' on the corner of Indian Oven and Old Post roads. Picture of house and Jerrilee Cain behind her stockade fence on the cover. 'How Jerrilee Cain's obsession with detail has brought an antique house back to life in Worthington.' Jerrilee…

Obituary for Beverly (Bee) Ruth Fairman Smith, nee Fairman. April 13, 2007. She died in a car crash on Easter Sunday. Her memorial was held at the church on Saturday, April 21 where there were ca. 250 in attendance. A meal at the town hall was…

2 page paper written by Lyn Horton on Lois Ashe Brown at the time of the dedication of the genealogy room at the Historical Society to Lois. Also a photo of Lyndon Brown from the Daily Hamshire Gazette May 14, 1969 in his senior year at Gateway…

Report by Beverly F. Smith titled '140 Buffington Hill Road.' This report is the result of her research at the Registry of Deeds. Included is the purchase by the Goldsteins and some of the past history of the house.

Genealogy - Packard/Cranson Family. This record covers the approximate period 1545 - 2007. Pete Packard was the postmaster of the Town of Worthington for many years as was his father (Merwin) before him. The family also managed the Corners Grocery…

Photocopied pages from scrapbook kept by Doris Smith (1987-1988). To be sorted. Judy Fisk obtained 5 scrapbooks from Babe before his death in early 2007(?). She wishes to retain them so swu photocopied them to be scanned at a later date. Items…