File contains manuscript notes concerning the history of schools in Madoc Township from ca. 1845 to 1963.

File contains a newspaper article from the North Hastings Review August 16, 1956 concerning members of the Madoc Platoon , 155th Battalion, during World War One.

File contains a newspaper article on the history and development of talc mining in Madoc Township. Also contains photocopied printed notes from the Hastings County Directory, 1860-61 concerning Madoc Township and its resources with a list of landowners by concession and lot.

File contains several newspaper clippings regarding initial gold discoveries in Madoc Township by Marcus and Daniel Powell in 1866 and the subsequent history of the mining industry in the township to ca. 1967

File contains photocopied manuscript notes on Orange Lodge branches and other social organizations including the Women's Institute and the Oddfellows in the period from 1885-ca. 1949. Also contains brief manuscript notes on railways in Madoc Township from ca. 1882-1964.

File contains manuscript notes on the history of Kellar's Bridge, a hamlet on highway 62 in Madoc Township, established ca. 1854.

File contains a newspaper clipping and photocopied manuscript history of Madoc Township from early French exploration in 1615 to ca. 1965, including a discussion of the creation of roads, schools and local churches. The historical research was composed by Mrs. Ken Bateman for Gerry Boyce as background for Historic Hastings.

File contains a manuscript certification of assessment of the number of householders in Madoc Township in 1865 sufficient to warrant the election of a deputyreeve.

File contains micro-copied manuscript field notes Provincial Land Surveyor, H.A. F. MacLeod, concerning concessions and boundaries of Madoc Township, Hastings County in 1867. Also contains micro-copied manuscript field notes on a survey undertaken by C. F. Aylsworth, P.L.S. of Madoc Township in 1891.

File contains affidavits signed in the 1860s for various individuals in Faraday, Madoc, Marmora, Belleville, Dungannon, Hungerford, Hershal, and Huntingdon taking office.

File contains various Hastings County documents from 1855 including information regarding accounts.

File contains newspaper clippings about the opening of the Madoc Township Public School in 1961. There is also a newspaper clipping about the federal government approving a technical training school for the Centre Hastings High School in Madoc.