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The Local History Room is located on the second floor of the library. The room is opened for public access all hours the library is open. Photo identification is required to view the special collections held in the local history room. Patrons interested in conducting local history research need to register at the reference desk, and can get an orientation with the collection before beginning their research.

The materials listed below are often-requested items, and do not cover the entire holdings of the Tewksbury Public library's Local History Room. Please email the Reference Department or call 978.640.4490, ext. 207, for more information on the library's Local History Room holdings.

Local History & Interests:

  • Books on the Lowell Mill Girls and Women
  • Information on Anne Sullivan and the Tewksbury Hospital
  • Books and pamphlets on Tewkesbury, England (Town namesake)
  • Books on King Philip's War
  • Information on Local Native American History
  • Middlesex County Histories
  • Tewksbury Histories
  • Massachusetts Histories
  • Books on the Merrimack River
  • Mico Kaufman Scrapbook
  • Information on Captain John Trull (Tewksbury Minuteman)
  • Information on Town Anniversaries (including 200th Anniversary Time Capsule)
  • Town of Tewksbury Annual Report [1878 - present]
  • Tewksbury Memorial High School Yearbooks [1946 – present (incomplete)]

    • Vital Records & Genealogy:

  • Vital Records of Tewksbury to the End of the Year 1849
  • Vital Records to 1850 of many Massachusetts cities and towns
  • Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War
  • Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War

    • Tewksbury Directories:

  • List of Residents by Streets, Ages 17 Years and Over [1965 - present(incomplete)]
  • Telephone Directories [1998 - present]
  • Cole Directory for Lowell and Vicinity [2005 - present] (current year located in Business Reference)

    • Maps:

  • Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, Lowell area - 1907, republished 1952 (microfilm)
  • Various historical and contemporary maps

    • Town Newspapers on Microfilm:

  • Merrimack Valley Advertiser [3/21/1957 - 12//2/1958; 4/2/1959 - 2/26/1992]
  • Tewksbury Advertiser [March 4, 1992 - December 2000]
  • Tewksbury Advocate [1/2001 - 12/2002] (1/2006 - present in paper format)
  • Tewksbury Town Crier [1/2003 - present] (Past year in paper format)

    • Also of interest:
    Tewksbury Historical Society's Online Archives
    http://www.tewksburyhistoricalsociety.org/

    The Historical Society has digitized articles, books, historical documents, photographs, and local maps of the Town's History, as well as material on the State Hospital (Tewksbury Almshouse).
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