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 I seek a buyer for 500 +  reprints of old Windham County town  maps.... $820  for the Lot  (retail value $5000+) These are sold  online at shop.old-maps.com .  I am getting out of retail selling, so my prints must go. Dave Allen =========================== =========================== about 400   1856  and 1869 Town Maps   11" x 14" ...Website Retail Price   $20 each 4 cartons with 400+  town maps sorted by town, stored in Town envelopes with 1-10 prints each(clear plastic sleeves.) A few - perhaps 100 - are individually packed into a single sealed sleeve ready for retail sale.  ======================================================================== Four 1869 Town Maps   16" x 20" in retail sleeves       Website Price  $26 each 1 Newfane, 2 Dummerston, 1 Grafton ========================================================================== 60+-  Windham County Custom...

 I seek help reconstructing the original Town of Colrain land lots, using original  1730s-1740s deeds which are now available along with typed abstracts made by Dorothy Brandner of Eugene Oregon.  Mrs. Brandner did an extraordinary amount of work while she was researching her ancestor.  She copied and cataloged 150 + original deeds and issued a 3-ring binder of 339 pages to the Colrain library.  In 2025 I "discovered" this binder and scanned it all. Dorothy's work can be used to make a new map of all the original land lots in Colrain.  There is such a map now, Ruby Austin's map found in the Patrie History, but we don't know how Austin did her work for the First Division lots which the Brandner deed copies cover.  A new map, based on the actual deeds with the dates and the buyers and sellers would be a nice addition to our knowledge of the history of Colrain. Airtable Brandner List of Deeds Google Drive with Brandner Files The deeds are from 1737 -1772,...

Sept 11    Starting the 2027 RR Calendar

 I have 13 diaries / notebooks by JDA covering years 1867-1883. He was 19 - 35 years old.  They show an active farmer and logger before he started exhibiting his giant oxen (1890+-?) .The diaries have been scanned and transcribed for easy study.   The transcriptions are a "work in progress" as the original hand-written words can be hard to discern, and many pages need editing. At the link below are file folders with the original scans and my  transcriptions ("typed".) ; -  Google Drive Diaries:    To scroll through the original scans there is a Google trick... Select all the scans. Then Right click and select "Open".  Then select "Preview" List of the JDA Diaries in the F. Deane Avery Files   1 1867-1869 2 1871 3 1872-3 Cash Journal 4 1873 5 1874 6 1875 7 1876 8 1877 9 1878 10 1879 11 1881 12 1882 13 1883 ====...

  Old Sturbridge Village was built on lands that once belonged to the Wight family.  This 1831 map shows "D. Wight's Saw Mill" being fed by a man-made mill pond that still exists today (actually part of the Quinnebaug River).  OSV now occupies most of the area shown in this excerpt.  There is a modern dam at the same location as in 1831. See the Google map below. The sawmill on the modern map is at (or close to) the same location as the 1831 sawmill. Old Sturbridge Village built the replica in the 1980s. Below is a 1795 map of this same area. There are two sawmills shown.  I think the one to the south is the old Wight sawmill site.  I am not sure who owned it then. Later maps are also interesting to look at The above map, 1858 shows Wight's  grist mill and saw mill (at the large "B" on the map).  The house D. Wight is on the premises of today's OSV (???).  Note several other Wight houses at the top of the map , including Wight's Store. The 18...