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Winchell Henry Portrait Photo.jpg
Buried in Northeast Cemetery, Granville, Massachusetts.Winchell land was the first to be taken by eminent domain on April 1, 1898 when the construction of the original reservoirs began in Northeast Granville. The Winchell Reservoir was named for the…

HRI Granville Reservoir 1937 front.jpg
Aerial view of the Granville Reservoir taken in 1937.

Bettinger Album 020 W H Sanderson superintendent 1922-5352.jpg
William Henry Sanderson (1854-1940) was Granville's Superintendent of Schools (not to be confused with Henry W. Sanderson who was Superintendent of the Westfield Water Works and oversaw the taking of farmland in Granville for the Granville…

Pomeroy William S Letter to R B Cooley 1902 002.jpg
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…

Bettinger Album 091 Willard and Dorothea Tryon June 1923-5428.jpg
From the Viola Elizabeth Bettinger (1899-1983) photo album. Viola Bettinger was a teacher at the old Granville Village School during the early 1920's. Her photo album was donated to the Granville Library Historical Room. All photos in the album have…

Bettinger Album 116 Wilhelmina Hansen June1923-5453.jpg
Wilhelmina Hansen Tryon donated many of the photos now on this site to the Granville Library Historical Room over many years, and was an active volunteer who helped to make Granville's one of the finer small town photo collections in…

1942 12 29 storm Wilcox hotel.jpg
Snowstorm of 29 Dec 1942, Hiers photo. Wilcox Hotel is on the right. Old Universalist Church (gone) steeple in the background. Granville Country Store is just out of sight on the left. Gas sign is visible. View is looking northwest toward Main Road.

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This house was on the left (west) side of West Hartland Road. It was the next house after the Nelson/Aldrich farm heading south. Both houses are now gone and the land is now State Forest.
Former owners include George Atkins and Lester Sattler.…

Coe Ransom Krasnoff House.jpg
House associated with Harlow Coe, Milo B. Coe, Ed and Sarah Ransom, and Krasnoff families. Built 1799. See photo notes.

Hill Top Ics of West Granville 1935  001.pdf
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…

West Granby Academy Scholars 1856 1857 Term-001.jpg
A list of students who attended the West Granby academy for the 1856-57 term (11 weeks).
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