FITCHBURG HISTORICAL SOCIETY

The Fitchburg Historical Society has more than 200,000 items in our collections that tell the story of people who lived in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Many items are one-of-a-kind and are found nowhere else, such as diaries or letters written by soldiers in the Civil War or manuscripts written by researchers through the years. We also have a large collection of published books and materials on Fitchburg-related topics and an extensive collection of Civil War books and original Sentinel newspapers from 1844 to 1976. In addition the Society has a small but significant collections of items found in colonial homes of the 1700s and 1800s and turn of the century farms and businesses.

Volunteers are entering data about our collections into a database which is accessible through the PastPerfect program on this web-site. As items are entered, they become accessible to persons on-line. Meanwhile, most items are available for research on site even if they have not been entered into the computer database.

If you are interested in donating items to the Fitchburg Historical Society, please contact the Director, Betsy Hannula.

The types of items in the Society’s collections include the following:

ARCHIVES

Account Books	Maps
Architectural Drawings	Negatives
Copper Plate Negatives	Newspapers
Diaries	Patents
Directories, City	Photos
Genealogies	Postcards
Glass Plate negatives	Railroad Records
Histories of organizations	Scrapbooks
Lantern Slides	Vital Records (prior to 1850)
Ledgers	Yearbooks
Lithographs	Manuscripts

ARTIFACTS

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