" To
enhance undergraduate learning in the liberal arts by
promoting use of library special collections"
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Institutions
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WATERTOWN HISTORICAL SOCIETY
22 DeForest Street
Torrington, CT
06795
Phone:
(860)
274-1050
Fax: N/A
E-mail: N/A
Web site: http://www.watertown-ct.org/ (soon
to become: http://www.watertownhistoricalsociety.org/)
Contact #1:
Jeffrey Grenier, President
Contact #2:
Steve Bartkus, Curator
Access
hours: Wednesday 2-4 pm; 1st Sunday of every month
1-3 pm. Also by appointment.
Access restrictions:
Nothing can leave the museum.
Reproduction fees:
25 cents per page, plus cost to ship if sending through the mail.
Other
provisions:
N/A
Other information:
N/A
Collection
Description: The museum chronicles the industrial,
social, cultural history of Watertown and Oakville. We
have a Victorian parlor exhibit, extensive local research
library, and we maintain the 1853 Nova Scotia Schoolhouse. Collections include:
- Archival files: newspaper articles, pictures, documents,
research, etc. on every aspect of Watertown and Oakville’s past;
- State and Local Histories
- Genealogies: Atwood, Barnes, Botsford, Buckingham, Copeland, Copes, Dayton,
Garnsey/Guernsey/Gurnsey, Keilty, Lynn, Merriman, Simon Mills, Noble, Palmer,
Peck, Percy, Pole, Roberts, Skilton, Scott, Smith
- Diaries: many from the Skilton Family, one from E. M. French
- Scrapbooks: many with local interest
- Native American artifacts: tools and implements
- Early industry: Heminway and Sons Silk Co., Bishop and Bradley, Wheeler
And Wilson, Woolson Manufacturing
- Industry: Heminway and Bartlett, Watertown Manufacturing,
Seymour Smith, Scovill’s Oakville Pin
- Pictures: local photos, postcards, daguerreotypes, stereo cards, cabinet
cards, etc.
- “Town Times” newspapers: local weekly
newspaper; we have 1947-1987 on microfilm and 1987-present in chronological
order in binders
- “Watertown News” newspapers: a handful
of issues from the early twentieth century
- Account Books/Ledgers: Heminway and Bartlett Silk Co. (extensive collection,
all from 1858-1950) and many other ledgers from local companies
- Maps: some local and state
- Textiles: extensive collection including samplers, quilts, clothing, etc.
- Military: local artifacts and records
- Taft School: records, pictures, memorabilia, etc.
- Agriculture: tools, milk bottles, etc.
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