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File contains photocopied typescript notes on the history and development of Detlor and surrounding district by Mary J. Hennessy, Detlor and L'Amable Women's Institute.

File contains a manuscript history of Glen Ross from its founding ca. 1859 as the settlement of Tupperville to ca. 1918, by Mrs. Arthur Pyear. Also present is a letter from Mrs.Arthur Pyear to Gerry Boyce, 3 June 1965 accompanying the history.

File contains a history/biography on William Bell and his role in the settlement of the Bay of Quinte. Identified as part of the W. C. Mikel papers.

File contains a newspaper clipping from 1922 with a letter from John B. Flint about Campbell and Pinnacle streets in Belleville (available online at https://archive.org/details/intelligencer-january-1922/page/n22/mode/1up ), and notes on the early history of Belleville written by Allan Dempsey.

File contains a copy of “In Those Days: A History of North Hastings and of South Nipissing,” compiled by Alexander W. Smith, Inspector of Schools at Bancroft. Also contains photocopies of newspaper articles about historic Belleville.

An outline of the history of Belleville, Ontario, published by the Hastings County Historical Society in 1962.

File contains a typescript extract from the Hastings County Court Registry Office concerning the ownership of a piece of land in Madoc Township, granted to C. Gordon Hannah in 1861. The lot is not identified, but information from the land index maintained by the Marilyn Adams Genealogical Research Centre suggest that it is lot 24 in the seventh concession of Madoc Township.

File contains a copy of a written history of Actinolite (Bridgewater) written by Lloyd 'Bud' Price and obtained by Gerry Boyce in 1964.

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).

File contains the history of Ivanhoe, including the post office, religion, and early settlers.

File contains original and photocopied manuscript histories of the settlement and early development of Bannockburn including the lumbering and sawmilling industries. Includes a printout of a webpage on Maitland House (available on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine at https://web.archive.org/web/20010805101431/http://casa-de.vrx.net/buildings/) and an article from the Fall 2019 Country Roads magazine about the conversion of St. Bartholomew Anglican Church in Bannockburn into a private home.