Acton Historical Society
PO Box 2389
Acton, MA 01720
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We hope you enjoy the following Acton Links of Interest:

  • Town of Acton (Official Site)
  • Acton Memorial Library's Local History Resources
  • Acton Memorial Library's Online Civil War Archives
  • Iron Work Farm
  • Acton Minutemen
  • Friends of Pine Hawk
  • FindAGrave Woodlawn Cemetery Listings
  • FindAGrave Mount Hope Cemetery Listings
  • FindAGrave Forest Cemetery Listings
  • Town of Acton - Historical Commission
  • Town of Acton - Historic District Commission
  • History of the Acton Woman's Club & Its Building
  • Acton Trails, Nashoba Brook Conservation Land
  • History of Exchange Hall
  • History of Acton, Acton Arboretum Site
  • Bruce Freeman Rail Trail, Evolution of Acton Section

Digitized Items of Relevance to Researching Acton
  • Maps
    • Digital Commonwealth:
      • Map of Acton by Jabez Brown, 1794
      • Map of South Acton, 1886
    • US Geological Survey Maps
      • Survey 1886, 1894 edition, reprint 1929, Most of Acton
      • Survey 1886, 1893 edition, reprint 1912, North Acton Piece
      • Survey  1939, 1941 Edition, North Acton Piece
      • Survey  1940-1941, Most of Acton
      • 1946 Edition, North Acton Piece
      • Survey Maps (in quarter segments, 1940-50)
      • 1950 Revision, Most of Acton
      • 1950 Revision, East Parts of Acton
      • 1950 Revision, North Acton
      • 1950 Revision, Small Piece of North Acton
  • Books with Acton Ties
    • Rev. James Fletcher's Acton in History
    • Harold Phelan's History of the Town of Acton
    • By-Laws of Corinthian Lodge, Louis Surette (includes Acton men who belonged to the Masons)
    • History of the Old Sixth Regiment (Civil War)
    • Genealogies & Family Histories (facts should be verified)
      • Commemorative of Calvin and Luther Blanchard, 1899
      • Descendants of Robert Fletcher of Concord, Mass., 1881
      • The Hapgood Family: Descendants of Shadrach, 1898
      • James Hayward, by Everett Hosmer Barney, 1911
      • Heald Family Manuscript, Martha Wilkins of Carlisle, 1941
      • Genealogy of the Name and the Family of Hunt, 1862

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Mailing Address: PO Box 2389, Acton, MA 01720

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