Farmington Room Collections

Amistad Letters
Farmington Homes (in progress)
FHS Yearbooks
Klauser Photo Collection
Memorial Stones in Farmington (Treasures of Connecticut Libraries)
Momento Mori Cemetery Index
Oral Histories
Postcards from Yesteryear

Amistad Letters

The Amistad Letters are a collection of digitized letters regarding Farmington's role in the Amistad incident. The library's copies were typed and have been digitized here. The originals are held in a university in Louisana.

Book Collections

  • Local History: Farmington and daughter towns; (Avon, Berlin, Bristol, Burlington, New Britain, Plainville, Southington)
  • Geneaology: Colonial Farmington families: some Hartford geneaology
  • Geneaological reference materials

Serial Collections

  • Farmington High School Yearbooks
  • CT. Nutmegger, V.5, no.4-
  • NEHGS Register, 1979-Jan., 2003
  • Lure of the Litchfield Hills, incomplete

Manuscript Collections

  • Archives of Farmington Library & earlier libraries
  • Selectman’s papers, 19th century: roads & bridges, welfare, Civil War bounty payments
  • Julius Gay Collection: Rev. War, genealogical & other
  • Geneaology: Lee-Patterson, Gleason, Sperry and some charts
  • Bickford Collection: working papers for the book Farmington in Connecticut, 1982
  • Grand Lists for Farmington and daughter towns, 1750-1829

Maps

  • Baker & Tilden Atlas of Hartford Co., 1869
  • 1930 Atlas of Hartford Co.
  • Farmington early divisions & lot holders (copies)
  • Current street maps
  • Maps of early Farmington, Hartford, etc. taken from other sources

Photographs & Visual Materials

  • Klauser collection: Farmington River & local scenes (see finding aid)
  • Postcard Collection: Farmington & Unionville buildings, street scenes, Porter School
  • Portraits: Julius Gay, John Pitkin IV
  • Farmington veterans
  • Photo Contest Winners & 350th Anniversary Photos for the Future
  • Gravestone photos (old cemetery)

Microfilm & Computer Resources

  • U.S. Census Records, Farmington reels, 1790-1920
  • Farmington Valley Herald, 1901-86

Finding Aids

  • Online Catalog via homepage
  • Card Catalog in Farmington Room
  • Written finding aids for Gay & Gleason Papers, Farmington First Church of Christ Papers & the Klauser Photograph collection – ask librarian

The library is the process of digitizing quite number of its historical collections. They will be linked here upon completion

Amistad Letters
Memorial Stones in Farmington (Treasures of Connecticut Libraries)
Farmington Homes (in progress)
Postcards from Yesteryear