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Folder Descriptions:

 

--Community Profiles

 

--Community Profiles

 

--Community Profiles: “A Guide to the Town of Pelham, Massachusetts,” [Booklet, 2000]

 

--Community Profiles: “A Guide to the Town of Pelham, Massachusetts,” [Booklet, 2^nd Edition, 2003]]

 

--Keyes, Robert Lord, “Thirty Books About the Town of Pelham: A Bibliography,” [2002]

 

--Lisburn Propriety Petition for Incorporation As a Town, May 26, 1742, [photocopies]

 

--Massachusetts Historical Commission, “Reconnaissance Survey Report: Pelham,” [Oct. 1982]

 

--“Pelham” Chapter: “A Few Interesting Historical Facts About Pelham,” “Historic Hampshire,” [Northampton, MA: Wade and Warner, 1890], [photocopied excerpts]

 

--“Pelham” Chapter, W.B. Gay, Ed., “Gazetteer of Hampshire County,” 1888, [photocopied excerpts]

 

--“A Town that is Tired of Its Existence,” Boston Sunday Herald, Sept. 24, 1905, [photocopy]

 

--“A BayStateTown with a History,” Springfield Sunday Union, Aug. 19, 1906, [photocopy]

 

--“A Hampshire County Town Meeting in its Pristine Glory,” Springfield newspaper, March 17, 1912, [photocopy]

 

--“A Typical Town Meeting,” Springfield Sunday Republican, March 22, 1914, [photocopy]

 

--Chaffee, William Sumner [1885-1971], “Pelham” Chapter from “The Hampshire History,” [1964]

 

--Riccelli, Carlene, “Place Names of Pelham, Massachusetts,” [Ms., 1970, photocopy]

 

--“The Town Next Door,” by Kay J. Moran, Hampshire Life, [in Daily Hampshire Gazette], Sept. 9, 1978, [photocopy]

 

--Sister Cities Committee of Pelham [Pelham-Soviet Union]: Excerpts from Pelham Oral History Project, 1984

 

--“Uncle Dudley’s Real People,” n.a., “The Patriot,” Sept. 19, 1990

 

--Brace, Gerald Warner, “I Travelled a Good Deal in Amherst,” [1963], [Pelham and Area, ca. 1918]

 

--Keyes, Robert Lord, “AmherstCollege and the Town of Pelham, Massachusetts,” [Ms., 1997]

 

--Mitchell, Edwin Valentine, “Yankee Folk,” [1948], [Excerpts, photocopies]

 

--“A Defense of the Hill Towns” by Charles Oscar Parmenter [1833-1913] and Other Articles on Hill Towns in HampshireCounty Journal, 1887

 

--Gladys Olds Reed [1899-1988], “Pelham” Articles in “Amherst Journal Record,” 1950s

 

--Wendy Larson [b. 1936], “Pelham” Articles in “Amherst Record,” 1970s

 

--Lehrer, Phyllis, “Around Pelham,” Articles in Amherst Bulletin, 2002-

 

--Federal, State and CountyVote Returns for Pelham

 

--Pelham Demographics

 

--Pelham Demographics: Census Records [Excerpts]

 

--Pelham Demographics: Federal Census, Pelham, 2000

 

--Pelham Demographics: 1880 Census Listing of Residents Aged 70 and Over

 

--Pelham Area [Size]

 

--PelhamTown Boundaries