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.

The file contains a copy of the Rawdon Township Historical Transcripts 1838 Assessment Rolls; a project of the Stirling-Rawdon Historical Society.

This file contains original copies of: the Last Will and Testament of James Merklejohn (21 November 1863) of Rawdon; Crown Grant to James Micklejohn (30 August 1862) and (5) deeds for various family members dating between 1884 and 1914.

Original contract between Samuel and Edward James Tanner of Rawdon Township and The Dominion Express Company for stage coach services dated 14 July 1897.

Original newspaper clippings of obituaries for: J. Wesley Glass, Orlean Glass, E. Carl Bleeker, Tom Ketcheson, Marjory K. Grass, Sussana Green nee Hart, Howard Bleecker Ketcheson, Charles Ketcheson, Mrs. Nancy Victoria Green, Mrs. Elizabeth M. Ketcheson nee Whitley. Photocopies of pages from family bible recording the deaths of: Arthur Ketcheson, Howard Bleecker Ketcheson, Tom Ketcheson; the births of : Howard Bleecker Ketcheson, Arthur Ketcheson, Tom Ketcheson and Mary Jane Glass. Old handwritten note recording births of: Nancy Victoria Glass, Mary Jane Glass, Orlean Glass, Frankie Alberta Glass, Emaly Glass and James Wesley Glass. Memorium cards and church membership cards.

File contains original documents, presented to the Hastings County Historical Society in 1960; Biographical sketch written on 22-September-1869 covers the years 1862 to 1869 when Willson was teaching school in the southern part of Hastings County; educational papers; legal papers; correspondence and a poem entitled "To The Mohawks".

List of people who wrote a will and that the archives has a copy of. 28 pages.

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 printed, completed deed of land to Benjamin Stedman, Stirling, for the purchase of lands seized by the Crown on the east half of lot number twenty-two in the sixth concession of the Township of Rawdon, 22 December 1859.

File contains original bill book belonging to Simeon Sarles 1843-1874

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 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 a two-page photocopied manuscript history of Bonarlaw [formerly Big Springs], Rawdon Township, and its role as a railway centre.

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.

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 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 concerning the 100th anniversary of the Rawdon Township Hall, Harold, Ontario.

File contains two manuscript declarations by Thomas Douglas, Rawdon Township Clerk, dated 19 January 1863, certifying that James Cooke, and Robert Lison were duly elected as Reeve and Deputy-Reeve, respectively, for the Township of Rawdon. Also present is a completed printed affidavit certifying George Conley's election as Reeve of the Township of Rawdon, 16 January 1866. Also includes a manuscript By Law no. 85, issued by the Council of the County of Hastings on 8 September 1860 concerning the disposal of road allowances in the Township of Rawdon.

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.