Acton History Resources

Digitized Histories

• ​Rev. James Fletcher's Acton in History

• Harold Phelan's History of the Town of Acton

• Josiah Adams' 100th Anniversary Address, 1835 (with history to that point)

• Shattuck's History of the Town of Concord

• Hudson's History of Concord, Massachusetts (Vol. 1, Colonial Concord)

Town Meeting Records

• 1735-1829 (transcriptions)

• 1735-1797

• 1798-1818

• 1819-1839

• 1839-1862

• 1863-1889

• 1889-1913

• 1914-1930

• 1931-1935

• 1936-1940

• 1941-1945

• 1946-1950

• 1951-1955

• 1956-1960

• 1961

• 1962-1964

• 1965-1969

• 1970-1974

• 1975

• Post-1975 Reports at the State Library of Massachusetts

Tax Valuations

• 1860

• 1875

• 1890

• 1900

• 1910

• 1926

Church Records

• Records of Acton's First Parish Church 1738-1819

• Evangelical (Congregational) Church, History & Catalogue of Current and Former Members, dated 1868

Land Records

• Registry of Deeds, Middlesex South

• Early deeds available at FamilySearch

Houses & Structures

• Massachusetts Cultural Resource Information System

Census Records

• Available on paid sites and FamilySearch except for:

• 1855 MA Census page 1 (East Acton households)

Other Town Documents, digitized

• Acton's Reply to Boston's Committee of Correspondence, relating to British infringements on colonists' rights, 18 January 1773

• Poor Farm Report, 1858-1859

Maps at Other Repositories

• Map of Acton by Jabez Brown, 1794

• Middlesex County, Walling, 1856

• Beers Atlas of Middlesex County, 1875 (see pages 43, 44)

• Map of South Acton, 1886

• Boundary Atlas, 1904

• Concord, Maynard & Hudson Street Railway Route

• Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps 1916

• Roads and Buildings of Acton, W. P. A. 1937

• Roads and Waterways of Acton, W. P. A. 1937

  • Symbols for W.P.A. maps, 1937

• Acton Map, Town Engineering Dept., 1984

Cemetery Listings

• FindAGrave Woodlawn Cemetery Listings

• FindAGrave Mount Hope Cemetery Listings

• FindAGrave Forest Cemetery Listings

Acton Websites with History Links

• Town of Acton (Official Site)

• Acton Memorial Library's Early Town Records

• Acton Memorial Library's Local History Resources

• Acton Memorial Library's Online Civil War Archives

• Iron Work Farm

• Acton Minutemen

• Friends of Pine Hawk

• Acton 250 Committee

• Town of Acton - Historical Commission

• Town of Acton - Historic District Commission

• History of the Acton Woman's Club & Its Building

• History of Exchange Hall

• History of Acton, Acton Arboretum Site

• Acton Trails, Trail Through Time

• Bruce Freeman Rail Trail, Evolution of Acton Section