Library/Archive Resources

• Home Page – State Library of Massachusetts The State Library was established in 1826 to collect, deposit, and house the Commonwealth’s collections of maps, statute books, and government documents in a single central location. Since that time, the State Library has grown into a multifaceted and reliable resource for legislators, executive personnel, state employees, historians, genealogists, and users from all over the world.
• University of Massachusetts Special Collections Dana, Massachusetts (includes town reports).
• University of Massachusetts Special Collections Enfield, Massachusetts (includes town reports).
• University of Massachusetts Special Collections Greenwich, Massachusetts (includes town reports).
• University of Massachusetts Special Collections Prescott, Massachusetts (includes town reports).
• Dana Vital Records to 1850 Digital copy of the Dana Vital Records to 1850 (Internet Archive by UMass Library)
• Atlas of the boundaries of the towns of Amherst, Enfield, Greenwich, Hadley, Pelham, Prescott, Hampshire County : Leverett, Shutesbury, Sunderland, New Salem, Franklin County : Barre, Dana, Hardwick, New Braintree, Petersham, Worcester County. (1912)
• The history of Prescott, Massachusetts; one of four townships in the Swift River Valley which was “born, lived and died” to make way for Metropolitan Water Basin ([n.d.]) Coolidge, Lillie Pierce
• Gazetteer of Hampshire County, Mass., 1654-1887 (1886) Compiled & edited by W. B. Gay, published by W. B. Gay & Co., Syracuse, NY.
• Quabbin; the story of a small town with outlooks upon Puritan life (1893)Underwood, Francis Henry, 1825-1894.
• History of Pelham, Mass. from 1738 to 1898 Including the early history of Prescott (1898) by C.O. Parmenter.
• Shays’ Rebellion & the Making of a Nation Very Comprehensive and well done by Springfield Technical Community College
• The Dana Centennial Report of the addresses and proceedings at the celebration on Dana Common on the twenty-second day of August, Nineteen Hundred One
• Photographs of Enfield’s last days (April 1938) Arthur Griffin was a photographer for the Boston Globe Rotogravure Magazine and the New England photojournalist for Life and Time magazines.
• Burt V. Brooks Photograph Collection, 1889-1934 (Greenwich, Massachusetts)University of Massachusetts Special Collections & University Archives