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Town of Pittsfield -- Miscellaneous Collection

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TOWN HISTORIES:

A Brief History of Pittsfield by PHS member Kathy Palmer.

Our History from the Town of Pittsfield website.

History Of The Town from Loder's 1907 "Souvenir of Pittsfield ME"

Pittsfield on the Sebasticook, Sanger Cook's 1965 book on Pittsfield's History.

Pittsfield on the Sebasticook by Lois Labbe, a paper done for a course at KVTC, 1997.

Town history from the 1904 Pittsfield Town Register.
TOWN CENSUSES:

Census of Pittsfield, 1912. Also available as a text file.

Also see the census section of the Pittsfield Town Register 1904. (1.89MB pdf file)

Census of Pittsfield, 1850, a pdf file. Also available as a wordperfect file.

 
POEMS:


A 1903 booklet "Rhythmical Advertising" published by the Pittsfield Universalist Ladies Aid Society.
Original document scanned to PDF file and index created by Tom Brown, PHS member, in 2006.


Pittsfield, a poem about Pittsfield by Perley A. Gilmore. Scanned by Kathy Palmer, PHS Curator.
 
STORIES:


The Grant-Knowles Battle of 1862,
a story of a Pittsfield gun battle. Transcribed in 2003 by Kathy Palmer, PHS Curator.
Auto thieves captured in Pittsfield in 1925. The newspaper clipping was salvaged by Tom Brown from where it was used as wall insulation in a house on Sebasticook Street.
 
MUSIC:


"I've Got a Date with Another Man's Wife",
1927 sheet music composed by Mrs. Beulah A. Robinson of 39 Detroit Ave. Date unknown. (pdf file). George and Beulah Robinson were married in 1915, George (1890-1930) passed away in 1930 but Beulah (1896-1997) remained in Pittsfield until her death. They had 3 children: Donald, Muriel, and Kenneth. Original document scanned by Kathy Palmer, PHS Curator.


"I Want a Good, Old Fashioned Girl",
sheet music composed by Mrs. Beulah A. Robinson of 39 Detroit Ave. Date unknown.(pdf file). Original document scanned by Kathy Palmer, PHS Curator.
 
VISIONS:


Pittsfield's Vision Statement,
generated from numererous community meetings, 1999. Copied from the Town of Pittsfield website.

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