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A "sort of genteel begging letter" from Wm. S. Pomeroy, owner of the store in Granville Center, to R.B. Cooley in 1902 seeking a contribution to the centennial celebration of the construction of the First Congregational Church, typically referred to…

In 1895 approval was granted the Town of Westfield (Westfield Water Works) to take land in Granville by eminent domain for the construction of two reservoirs that would serve the Town of Westfield:Winchell (Collecting) Reservoir, 3,081,000 gal.…

Volume 1, Numbers 1-10, 1935, of a 2-page newsletter. Numbers 1 and 2 are titles the West Granville Parish News. As the result of a contest to name the newsletter it was re-named The Hill-Top-Ics of West Granville." The contest prize was a free…

A list of students who attended the West Granby academy for the 1856-57 term (11 weeks).

Photo and a two page event program for the Washington Bicentennial Entertainment, Friday, August 19, 1932, in Granville, Massachusetts. Held at the Community Building. For more information on the Washington Bicentennial CLICK HERE.

Veranus Brownell was from Pomfret, Vermont and became a well-known Methodist itinerant preacher in New York and Pennsylvania. In 1863 he sold most of his belongings to devote more time to his preaching, but according to published articles by the time…

Two letters proposing that the Granville churches form a "Union Church." The 1903 letter is from David Lyman Kibbe, pastor or the Congregational Church on the hill. The 1906 letter is from Edgar Alonzo Brownell of the Methodist Episcopal Church,…

The 1870 Annual Reports for the Town of Granville, Massachusetts.

Transcript of an article published in the Evening Citizen, Winsted, Connecticut. Written by Hattie Hall Moore, long-time Tolland historian.

A short letter from Thomas Jefferson to Rev. Timothy Mather Cooley and (?) Parsons.

Parsons and Cooley worked to make sure Granville children and had requested that Jefferson provide a book that could be part of the library collection at the…

Before the current Granville Library came into existence thanks to the work of the Library Club, Granville had a series of libraries under various names. One was the Dickinson Library Company and before that the Third Granville Social Library, the…