Archive Record
Metadata
Catalog Number |
WNT 1932.11 |
Title |
Town Clerk: Early Vital Records and Census |
Collection |
eTown Records |
Object Name |
Records |
Scope & Content |
This collections contains petitions and other documents released by the Board of Selectmen relating to the laying out, widening, and accepting of streets, plus documents pertaining to bridge construction and a few drainage projects or concerns. |
Admin/Biographical History |
When the Winchester Historical & Genealogical Society was organized in 1884, among the first donors was the Board of Selectmen who voted in January 1885 that the society "have the privilege of selecting such printed or other matter as they may find among the documents left at the room formerly occupied as Selectmen's Room, the same to be kept by the society in such manner they may deem for its preservation as the property of the town." These old highway records may have been among those items acquired from the selectmen's room. |
Copyrights |
Permission to publish material from this collection is subject to approval by the Town of Winchester. |
Finding Aids |
A finding aid with detailed information about the contents of the collection is available. Contact the Archives for a copy. |
Search Terms |
Highways Bridges |
People |
Ayer, Albert Ayer, Thomas Prentiss Bartlett, Samuel Boynton, William Brackett, Edward A. Brooks, Peter Chardon Dupee, Charles Emerson, Henry Augustus Everett, William Gardner, Oliver W. Holland, Patrick Perry, F. W. Quimby, Arthur C. Ralston, W. H. Richardson, George Richardson, Nathaniel Skillings, David Nelson Symmes, Charles T. Thatcher, Henry Knox |
Containers |
Bridges Pleasant Street (Mount Vernon Street) Bridge Petitions & Contracts for streets 1850s Petitions & Contracts for streets 1860s Petitions & Contracts for streets 1870-1874 Petitions & Contracts for streets 1875-79 Correspondence with Boston Water Board 1877 Petitions & Contracts for streets 1880-1890s Drainage & Sewerage Correspondence RE damages due to street and infrastructure work Misc. & Undated |