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Newspaper account of the crash of a Cessna 175 single engine airplane on the Albert field along the Old Post Road. No injuries. Pilot unnamed. Selectman/Police Chief Tyler mentioned in article

Book of 50 cent raffle tickets for rug and afghan, Sept 9, 1972

Class photo. Russell H. Conwell Elementary School, first grade, 1971. Top row: Unknown Paul Payson, Lauren Mason, Danny Kievet, Mrs. Fisher
Middle row: Lance Majkowski, Billy Nugent, Scott Corbin, Mark Vienotte, Kevin Granger, Kevin Fairman, Kevin…

Full-page of sepia colored photographs depicting the Worthington Town meeting, winter? 1952. Shown are: Franklin Burr, Town Clerk; Arthur Codding, Moderator and Assessor; Joseph Sena, Selectman and Assessor; Henry Snyder, Selectman and Assessor;…

A variety show sponsored by the Grange (#90), held at the Town Hall. From left: Gloria Frew, Joan Osgood, Judy Magargal, Judy Diamond and Dorothy Green (maiden names)

Black and white photograph showing airplane that landed in McCann's field, Worthington Corners, in 1929."Flown by Ruth Nichols and her army pilot father"

Bound scrapbook by Elsie Venner Bartlett of the 1925 Lafayette celebration and some photographs of library groundbreaking in 1914. Scrapbook entries are on black paper with notations in white ink. Most entries are black and white photographs of…

#348: Frank W. Bates (b. 1897)
#349: William Brown
#350: Leland Cole
#351: Charles Cudworth
#352: Elisha P. Cutler (b. 1889)
#353: Homer Dodge
#354: Malcolm Fairman (1b. 890)
#355: John Jarvis (b. 1896)
#356: Emory Knapp (b. 1896)
#357:…

Newspaper articles about various subjects: disowning wife, divorcing husband, debts, insolvency notice, patents, post office robbery, suicide, drowning, fires; freezing to death
, etc. etc. Among the names mentioned are Mr. Goldthwait (robbery),…

Two articles from the Pittsfield Sun, the first describing a robbery at the Worthington Post Office,; the second reporting on the interrogation of one of the perpetrators.

1840 federal census for Worthington, 14pp. enumerated by Alpheus Langley. Total population 1,197. Two-page format, first page is household info, second page includes info about slaves and free blacks, school populations, employment by category…

An 1837 “Hard Times” token unearthed on West Street by Peter Donatelli of West Chesterfield. During the 1830s, second-term President Andrew Jackson, in an effort to help stabilize a wildly unstable economic environment, tried to manipulate the value…

1830 federal census, Worthington. First two-page enumeration. Households by gender. Slaves and free-colored persons by gender.
John Bryant enumerator.

1820 federal census for the town of Worthington. 7 pages.

1810 federal census for Worthington. 5 pages. Unknown census taker. 704 white males, 675 white females, 12 Black.

1800 federal census for Worthington Massachusetts. 6 pages. Compiled by Ezra Starkweather. Total population 1223, total # houses 122.

Leather-covered day book from a Worthington General Store, with entries from 4 January 1794 through Nov. 18, 1794 detailing day-to-day purchases by named Worthington residents. Approximately 40-45 sheets, 90 page*s, handwritten entries, mostly…

1794 day book recording transactions for a Worthington general store. Digital files include a full-size 1.88 GB PDF of the entire book (file name 2022-100a.pdf), a compressed 75MB PDF of the entire book (file name 2022-100b.pdf), and an index by…

Advertisement posted by a horse doctor/farrier from Great Britain promising treatments for a wide range of horse illnesses. Mentions stops in both Worthington and Northampton.