File contains several newspaper clippings concerning the election of the Rawdon Township Council, and minutes of its meetings, 1957. Also present is a photocopied excerpt of the Hastings County Directory, 1860-1861, and 1864-1865 with statistics for Rawdon Township including names of property owners listing occupations, and location of properties by lot and concession number.
File contains an Ontario Intelligencer newspaper article, 28 August 1962 concerning the upcoming centennial of the Rawdon Municipal Hall at Harold. Also present is a newspaper article of 29 November 1962 concerning a mortgage-burning ceremony by the Plum Grove Cheese Factory, Rawdon Township.
The file contains a newspaper article from The Community Press, Quinte Edition, dated 5 November 2004, titled "Cheese Factory fire lights up the night sky", about the fire that destroyed Harold Cheese Factory (1886-2004) in Rawdon Township.
File contains a typescript transcript concerning the life of Sarah Ruth Hubel[sic], b. 1792, daughter of Loyalist Nehemiah Hubel[sic]. Includes references to Rawdon Township in the period of the the War of 1812.
Deeds, abstracts of title, and correspondence relating to two properties:
Lot 22 in Concession 7; Lots 23 and 24 in Concession 6 of of Rawdon Township, Ontario This property was originally granted to Captain John Deserontyon and was later purchased by William Totten and Robert Matthews
Lots between Church, Front, Annis and Allen Streets in Stirling, Ontario
File contains a typescript essay by C.S. Chard, Stirling, regarding the history of the River Valley and Oak Hills community ca. 1877 to 1965. Includes information on roads, schools and a brief account of the River Valley Pioneer Cemetery.
File contains several typed letters from 1964 to 1967 with a brief history on Ontario's early railways and mines in Hastings county. They also include some local family histories for the Chard family.
File contains a handwritten essay by Florence McKeown and Ida Smith both from Springbrook regarding the history of Springbrook community ca. 1838 to 1965. Includes information on roads, local industry, churches, schools and a brief account of the cheese factories and local families
File contains 2 newspaper articles; one from the Ontario Intelligencer dated 13 November 1964 titled "Nichols Chemical, Sulphide, Will Close at Year's End Due Loss of Mine Market" and the second one (dated 30 May 1957 from the Tweed News) titled "Rawdon Family Have Acquired Sulphide Store.
File contains a mimeographed typescript essay entitled, “Mount Pleasant Centennial Souvenir, 1967” which concerns the settlement of Rawdon Township and the history of the Mount Pleasant-Rawdon United Church, 1871-1967..
File contains a newspaper clipping concerning a reunion at Oak Lake, Rawdon Township, of the extended Morton, McKeown, Ashley and Bateman families, each of whom had pioneer roots in early Hastings County.
File contains a notebook entitled Cobourg, Northumberland and Pacific Railway Reference Book with manuscript entries completed by the Registrar, Hastings County 29 March 1898 concerning railroad allowances in Rawdon Township at 10 December 1894.
File contains two manuscript signed and witnessed oaths of tax collectors Henry Smith, James Sine and Charles [Baryur], for the Township of Rawdon, District of Victoria, 14 August 1847.
File contains a manuscript petition to the County Council of Hastings by residents of the Township of Rawdon, dated 1 November 1871 requesting the construction of a road between Rawdon Township and Marmora for the purpose of moving goods to market or mill, and for the repair of a causeway to Seymore which was destroyed by fire in the summer of 1871.
File contains a manuscript petition to the Warden and Council of Hastings County requesting that Nemehiah Hubble be allowed to continue to occupy road allowance lands in Rawdon Township.
File contains a printed extract of the Northumberland Militia Return for 1828 including annotated names of individuals from Sidney and Rawdon Townships.
File contains three manuscript claims submitted to the Provincial Government in 1845 by Martin Ryan for damages to a house and for time lost to militia duty in 1838.