This page contains links related to the History Room and Archive Collection
The links on this page are currently hosted on the Pelham Historical Society’s website pelhamhs.org
Guides To The Pelham Free Public Library History Room Archives Collections:
The updated content of these guides are all searchable on the Pelham Historical Society’s Collections Database
Theses hard copy guides may not be current.
History Room Archive Collection Guide – 2017 This is the master Finding Aid for the Collection.
Gould Family Finding Aid – Compiled by Robert Lord Keyes October, 2002.
This collection documents three generations of the Gould Family in Pelham; First Generation, Frank B. Gould [1872-1950] and Emma L. Pierce Gould [1872-1946]; Second Generation, Chester Frank Gould [1897-1952] and Nellie Pearl Verge Gould [1898-1985]; and Third Generation, Richard Lyman Gould [1924-1989] and Norman Sherwood Gould [1926-2001]. Items include personal and financial papers, diaries, family Bibles, photographs, recipes, cards and correspondence, World War II service letters home and family genealogy.
Pelham Oral History Project:
Between 1979 and 1981, Barbara Benda Jenkins conducted 21 oral history sound recordings with long-time Pelham residents. The recordings were transcribed by a number of volunteers, and then in 2003, were electronically transcribed by Happi Cramer.
In a few instances, the transcripts have been edited for on-line presentation. Editorial notations are signified with brackets “[ ]”. The complete, unedited texts — as well as the sound recordings themselves — are available at the Pelham Free Public Library History Room. Robert Lord Keyes – February 12, 2005
Some of the recordings can be found at https://pelhamhistory.org/oral-history/
Pelham Oral History Project: Part 1
PDF or Microsoft Word
Part 1 Includes conversations with: Flora Adriance, Daniel Henry Allen, Mark Aldrich, Harold Bohmer, George W. Burrows, Paul H. Campbell, Ethel Cushman, Herbert Goodell.
Pelham Oral History Project: Part 2
PDF or Microsoft Word
Part 2 Includes conversations with Gifford Towle, Lawrence “Bud” Willson, Marion Wilson, Marie Yegian.
Pelham Oral History Project : Part 3
PDF or Microsoft Word
Part 3 Includes conversations with John Partridge Hunt, Pearl Keyes, Sr., Evelyn Kimball, Gladys Olds Reed, Mabel Lumley, M. Carlton Robinson, Sally Shepard, Beatrice Irene Smith, Mary L. H. Taylor.
Pelham, Massachusetts: Town Hall Complex:
The Oldest Town Hall in Continuous Use in the United States.
A history by Robert Lord Keyes; 2001
The Valley Road and Silver Street:
A history by M.Louise Brewer dated September 14, 1929.
Conkey Family of Pelham, Massachusetts
A genealogy report by Robert Lord Keyes; 2005. PDF or Microsoft Word
Some Pelham Topics
Table of Contents: PDF or Microsoft Word
Topics:PDF or Microsoft Word’
Pelham Historic Assets Survey:
Contains the histories of 27 houses along Amherst Road