File contains manuscript and typescript correspondence to the Hastings County Historical Society received from Mrs. Carl W. [Anne] Stapleton, of Alabama, concerning the genealogy of the John Turnbull Family of Belleville, from ca. 1823. Includes a typescript copy of an inventory of household effects of John Turnbull's residence in Belleville, at 6 November 1827.
File contains a typescript list of documents belonging to the John Turnbull Family Papers, 1823-1870, as catalogued by Gerry Boyce, Hastings County Historical Society, September, 1960.
File contains a typescript copy of a history of the community of Tweed from 1850-ca. 1964. Also present are: i) photocopies of printed extracts from the Hastings Directory, 1864-1865, 1889 ii) a letter ca. 1966 to Gerald Boyce concerning the Woodcock Family of Tweed iii) several newspaper clippings concerning the early history of Tweed.
File contains several newspaper clippings concerning miscellaneous events in Tweed including the reorganization of the Chamber of Commerce in December 1956, bridge repairs in 1956 and Tweed's Diamond Jubilee Celebration on August 4-6, 1951.
File contains several newspaper clippings on miscellaneous topics related to Tweed, Ontario, including Centennial Year (1967) projects; public efforts to stop the closure and sale of the Tweed High School in 1968; and newspaper photographs of local landmarks.
File contains a newspaper article from The Tweed Newsconcerning the disinterment and theft of the body of the late Stephen Conger Johnston and an ensuing controversy involving Kingston medical students in November 1889.
File contains a newspaper article concerning the awarding of merit medals to Tweed brothers and Boy Scout members, Bill and Michael Ingles, who engaged in a life-saving effort at the Tweed Mill Dam in June, 1968.
File contains a printed brochure with a calendar of Centennial Year events being celebrated in Tweed in 1967. Also present are two newspaper articles concerning Centennial events in the town.
File contains several newspaper clippings regarding local personalities in Tweed including the 1961 death of Samuel R. Curry publisher of the Tweed News.
File contains a newspaper article concerning a ceremony honouring S.Howard Connor, who served 50 years as a teacher and principal at the Tweed Public School
File contains original Letters Patent issued 29-July-1858 by Government House, City of Toronto to John Moodie, Sheriff of the Count of Hastings to hold periodical Fairs in the Village of Tweed.