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.

A certified reproduction of the Plan of Ponton's Block, being Lots # 21 & 22 on the south side of Bridge Street West, Belleville, for William Hamilton Ponton, on the Commercial Bank Plan. Surveyed by John J. Haslett P.L.S. in 1853.

This copy was made in 1972 of plan #27, as registered in the Hastings Land Registry Office.

Donated by Walter I. Watson, O.L.S.

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.

Outline of events for an historical pageant to be held in Belleville in 1928 to mark the city's 50th anniversary.

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.

A certified reproduction of the "Plan of part of Lots # 1 & 2, Concession 1 Thurlow, Part of the Commercial Bank Plan. Resubdivided by owners Maria Murney and Nathaniel Baldwin Falkiner." Some of the lot owners are named along the south side of Charlotte Street: George Ritchie Lot # 28, Lt. Col. Campbell and Jacob Wilson Lot # 28. Surveyed by John D. Evans, P.L.S., and signed October 15, 1872.

This copy was made in 1972 of plan #158, as registered in the Hastings Land Registry Office.

Donated by Walter I. Watson, O.L.S.

The Wanamaker fonds consists of textual records and graphic materials of genealogical histories of various families. The fonds also contains records, brochures, pamphlets, publications, books, and other textual records from towns and cities throughout Ontario, predominantly from the Quinte Area and Hastings County.

• Family Photographs of the Sayers family, Ralph Wanamaker's family, the Hodgen family, of Loral Wanamaker's family, Parliament family, Van Cott family, Post family, as well as loose photographs of the Parliament family, the McTaggart family, various snapshots and negatives of scenery and views, as well as 2 boxes of slides
• 1 box of Books and Binders with genealogical records, as well various records of various towns in Ontario ca. 1816 - 1957
• Genealogical notes, histories, birth records, death records, pages from family Bibles, receipts, and other textual records for over 40 individual families
• Genealogical charts, and ancestral charts
• Genealogical correspondences
  *Newspapers, and News clippings from Hastings County, Hastings County Museum, Historical Society, Lennox and Addington, Prince Edward County, Trenton, Tyendinaga, and United Empire Loyalists
• Legal documents, seals and original deeds, and land records ca. 1803 - 1848
• Genealogy forms, research materials, reference materials
• Various artworks and postcards (of Hastings County, the Quinte Region, the British Military and Navy, the Belleville Art Association, and travel)
• Quinte region, Belleville, Trenton, and Prince Edward County miscellaneous publications, newspaper clippings, brochures, pamphlets, notes, directories, histories, records, and tourism guides and publications
• Ontario, New York , and Canada pamphlets, magazines, calendars, and an Ontario Liquor License Act, 1891
• Land Abstracts for Prince Edward County
• Maps and plans: 1778-1779 Blue Print Surveys from General Washington, New York Historical Society; 1784 Ontario (printed by Ministry of Natural Resources), 1984; 1860-1861 Hastings County, 1860-1861 from the Hastings County Directory; 1928 Lloyd's Map of Hastings County; c. 1930 Belleville Post Office Carrier Route #8, North Front and North Park Streets
• Scrapbooks ca. 1958-1972
• Miscellaneous Publications (almanacs, newspaper clippings, miscellaneous pins belonging to Loral Wanamaker, blue print surveys)

Genealogical family research names:

• Allison
• Alyea
• Babcock, John
• Bailey
• Belnap
• Benson
• Blair/Snider/Mumby/Spenser
• Brickman, Lewis
• Brighton
• Canniff
• Clapp
• Cole
• Cunningham
  *Davis
• Embury
• Finkle
• Fraser
• Gallagher
• Gerow
• Giraud/Gero-Gerow
• Hodgens
• Johnson
• Loveless, Absolam
• McTaggart
• Meyers, John W.
• Mitchell, Alfred
• Orser
• Parliament
• Peck
• Redner
• Roblin
• Scott
• Spencer
• Sprung
• Van Cott, John
• Vander Woort
• Waite (see also Sprung and Putnam)
• Wallbridge
• Wanamaker
• Wanamaker, Judge George Washington
• Wanamaker
• Weese
• Whitney
• Williams and Schermerhorn
• Yarrow

File contains a history of the ancestors of John M. Parrott of Belleville and of his farm at 590 Dundas Street East, written by Lois Foster

Reproduction of a map of a town site at the mouth of the Moira River [Belleville, Ontario]. Features lot owners and businesses already located in the area. Original by Samuel Wilmot, April 24, 1816. Scale: 1= 1,500.

Printed by the Hastings County Historical Society in 1969.

This file contains a newspaper clipping titled "The Sprague Family: How They Migrated From New York to Prince Edward".

This file contains a copy of a school project written by Scott Randolph from Foxboro Sr. Elementary School. It is titled "One Hundred and Eighty Years of Service" The Vandervoorts of Sidney Township and contains information about the genealogy of the Vandervoort Family commencing in 1784 with Peter Vandervoort.

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