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One page of Granville news, marked 1896 and "North Star Magazine." The sporting news included shooting and tennis events. Meanwhile someone slipped up at the drum shop. From the Historical Room collection.Also: Receipts from A.G. Spaulding &…

Documents relating to Melissa Phelps' (1850-1931) education in 1865, consisting of an invoice paid by her mother, Betsy Phelps, and Melissa's report card. Melissa Phelps married George Gaines and is buried in the Silver Street Cemetery.

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The 1894 Annual Report for Granville. Includes expenditures, school report,names of teachers by school district, etc. Fascinating.

The 1892 Granville valuation and tax list. Note: Due to the way the pages are numbered there is no page 3; it is not missing.

The Granville Village News was published during the summer months by a group of students who summered in Granville. Their amateur reporting provides a detailed and often entertaining account of life in Granville Center during the Great Depression. A…

Graduation program for 1954 (also the year of Granville's 200th anniversary).

A poem dated March, 1930. This document was in the Granville Center News file. References suggest the author was one of the individuals associated with publishing the News. The most likely author seems to be Gil Stevenson.

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.

Invitation to the community to come to Old Home Sunday, which took place on August 28, 1932.

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…

1932 letter from William Snow to Gilbert Stevenson concerning Snow's 1881 publication of the "Granville Sun" newspaper. The material referred to in the letter has not been found in the Historical Room collection yet.

A humorous "opinion" written by Sophia Case (1807-1900) on why women require less education than men. Likely written in the early 1800's while in school. Sophia (Case) Rose is buried in Silver Street Cemetery.