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Town of Pittsfield -- Miscellaneous Collection

Histories · Censuses · Poems · Stories · Music · Visions

• History Of The Town from the 1886 A Gazetteer of the State of Maine by Geo. J. Varney.
• Town history from the 1904 Pittsfield Town Register. (PDF)
• History Of The Town from Loder's 1907 Souvenir of Pittsfield ME.
• Pittsfield on the Sebasticook, Sanger Cook's 1965 book on Pittsfield's History.
• Pittsfield 1794–1994 from the 1994 PHS booklet Milestones and Memories.
• A Brief History of Pittsfield by PHS member Kathy Palmer, 2003.
• Our History from the Town of Pittsfield website, 2004.
• Pittsfield on the Sebasticook by Lois Labbe, a paper done for a course at KVTC, 1997.

Census of Pittsfield, 1912. Also available as a text file.

Census of Pittsfield, 1850, a pdf file. Also available as a wordperfect file.

A 1903 booklet "Rhythmical Advertising" published by the Pittsfield Universalist Ladies Aid Society.
Original document scanned to PDF file and index created by Tom Brown, PHS member, in 2006.

Pittsfield, a poem about Pittsfield by Perley A. Gilmore. Scanned by Kathy Palmer, PHS Curator.

The Grant-Knowles Battle of 1862,
a story of a Pittsfield gun battle. Transcribed in 2003 by Kathy Palmer, PHS Curator.

"I've Got a Date with Another Man's Wife",
1927 sheet music composed by Mrs. Beulah A. Robinson of 39 Detroit Ave. Date unknown. (pdf file). George and Beulah Robinson were married in 1915, George (1890-1930) passed away in 1930 but Beulah (1896-1997) remained in Pittsfield until her death. They had 3 children: Donald, Muriel, and Kenneth. Original document scanned by Kathy Palmer, PHS Curator.

"I Want a Good, Old Fashioned Girl",
sheet music composed by Mrs. Beulah A. Robinson of 39 Detroit Ave. Date unknown.(pdf file). Original document scanned by Kathy Palmer, PHS Curator.

Pittsfield's Vision Statement,
generated from numererous community meetings, 1999. Copied from the Town of Pittsfield website.