Westfield Athenaeum Library

Archives-Government/ Political

Ashley, Israel 1806-1814 Justice of the Peace, Westfield Hampshire County 1806 - 1914 (Hampden County started in 1812)

Noah Atwater 1765-1802- 1st Church Minister town ledger

Callins & Bates 1811-1847 Justices of the Peace

Constable Chamberlain Diaries 1866-1881-police constable, truant and court officer, janitor and was in charge of the lockup (jail). These diaries show room use at city hall as well as fines collected for various crimes.

Burke, Alice 1910s-1950s Newspaper clippings and scrapbooks of her public life on school board and as mayor

Cemetaries 1600-1950 Cementaries

City Government 1930s-1980s Roscoe Scott Newsclippings

Ely, Joseph Buell Governor (1881-1956) Correspondence, photographs, news paper clippings from 1930-31, 1948

Fire Department 1873-1986 Fire records, photograhs, news clippings, emphera

Fowler, Samuel 1790-1808 Justice of the Ppeace records, loan records

Fuller, Richard 1940s Photographs, Mayors

Palczynski, John 1950s-2008 Mayoral papers showing creation of fire stations and new high school, correspondence to many commitees and people, also on the Westfield Athenaeum board and School Committee.

Post Office 1847-1960 Photographs and some papers documenting the construction of the Post Office building on the Green and the Mailbox Beautification projects of the 1950s and 1960s

Searle, George 1910-1940s Mayoral correspondence and as tax collector, public service papers

Sewage Treatment Plant
1947-1963 Scrapbook, Sewage Treatment

Whitney, Abel 1801-1806 Justice of the Peace Westfield, Hampshire County

Westfield Almshouse 1902-1941 records of admission

Westfield Schools 1793-1980High School, District, Elementary, Intermediate, Trade/Vocational schools, Westfield State, High School Herald Magazine, school comittee records, parent's and teachers' association records, budgets.