File contains a newspaper clipping from the Ottawa Journal of 27 March 1920 concerning iron ore deposits in Canada, including Hastings County. Also contains two newspaper clippings concerning management-labour relations regarding the planned closure of the Dyno Uranium Mine, Bancroft, dated 28 January and 1 February 1960.
File contains a typescript item on “Deseronto and the Rathbun Company” written by T. Dane Martin and edited by Gerry Boyce. Also a copy of the final printed version.
File contains a newspaper clipping about the discovering of an illegal still on Joseph Cappelle's farm, north of Tweed in Hungerford. The clipping was taken from the Daily Ontario newspaper.
File contains a typsecript letter to W. J. Therriault, Governor of the Hastings County Jail from Mary G. Plumpton, Curator, Hastings County Museum, with a list of hangings by date and name of the convicted from 1835 to 1941.
File contains a written history of settlement and development of Elzevir and Grimsthorpe community, compiled in 1964 in response to a call for contributions to a history of Hastings County by the Hastings County Historical Society and the County of Hastings (Historic Hastings).
Newspaper article reporting the murder of Clayton Williams and Jack McGie by the alleged shooter David Arthur Moon in a Belleville drug store on April 6, 1925.
Photocopied cover of manuscript field notes by Quintin Johnston, Provincial Land Surveyor concerning resources and quality of land in Faraday Township in 1857. Published by Ontario Department of Crown Lands.
File contains a letter from Fred E. Thain to Mr and Mrs Clarence Cornell, written five days before his execution by hanging for the murder of Arnold and Nancy Wellman.
Letter of appeal to county council members for financial aid to the Deaf and Dumb Institution which includes an account abstract for 1865 and the treasurer's, W.M. McMaster, balance sheet for 1862.
Letter written by J.B. McGann to municipal and provincial government representatives of Ontario, asking for financial support on behalf of the Deaf and Dumb Institution.
File contains original and photocopied typescript notes prepared by Mrs. Alex McGibbon, L'Amable, concerning the history of the southern section of Dungannon Township and the settlement of Turriff, with additional notes by Mrs Herbert Hawkins on the history of Bronson Settlement, Dungannon Township, Hastings.