Announcements

Thanksgiving Closings

The Farmington Libraries will be closed Wednesday, November 27 through Friday, November 29 for the Thanksgiving holiday.

Farmington Room Collections

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GENEALOGY

  • Sperry, Tillotson, and Carrington family original documents
  • Lee-Patterson, Gleason, Cowles, and some charts
  • Information on Colonial Farmington Families
  • Newspaper clippings related to some major families of Farmington
  • Ancestry.com available from within the library

Historic Homes

  • The File of Farmington Homes
  • The Prentice Collection
  • Architectural Survey

Manuscript Collection

  • Julius Gay Collection: local historian’s collected documents
  • Grand Lists for Farmington and daughter towns, 1750-1829
  • Farmington Selectman’s papers: roads & bridges, welfare, Civil War bounty payments
  • Bickford Collection: working papers for the book “Farmington in Connecticut,” 1982
  • Archives of Farmington Library

Maps

  • Farmington early divisions & lot holders (copies)
  • Maps of early Farmington and daughter towns, as well as Hartford, etc.
  • Baker & Tilden Atlas of Hartford Co., 1869
  • 1930 Atlas of Hartford Co.

Photographs

  • Klauser collection: Farmington River & local scenes (1855-1905)
  • Postcard Collection: Farmington & Unionville buildings, street scenes, Porter School
  • Portraits: Julius Gay, John Pitkin IV
  • Civil War
  • Farmington veterans

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