Shirley was named the Most Historic Small Town in
the
country.
Go to www.ePodunk.com and enter Shirley, MA and see
what
they've got to say about us.
For a list of upcoming Shirley events, click here.
For a timeline covering 250 years of Shirley history, click here.
For a list of items available in the Historical Society Museum Store, click here.
For a brief history of the Shirley Shaker Village and links to other Shaker sites, click here.
For information at Shirley's Hazen Memorial Library, go to www.shirleylibrary.org
For a Shirley Town Government website go to www.shirley-ma.gov
To visit the Shirley Historical Commission's pages, copy this address - http://home.comcast.net/~shirleyhistoricalcom/
For an interactive map of Shirley Points of Interest, click here.
For a list of topics that can be researched at the Museum, Click Here.
For a list of important Shirley people, click here.
To read Yankee Magazine's article on "The Man Who Loves Grass" (Melvin Longley), click here.
To read Louise Longley's story of "The Land We Love or The Last Dairy Farm in Shirley",click here.
For information on Shirley Agriculture, click here.
To see information on Shirley's population growth, click here.
For a list of Shirley surnames from 1753 - 1930, click here
For information on Shirley's Cranberrying Industry, click here.
For information on the Hazen-Davis Barn,click here.
For information on the White Brothers' Mills in Woodsvillage, click here.
To see an artist's renderings of Shirley sites, and be able to read historic descriptions of sites, click on Bob Burkhardt's Shirley Oil Pastels.
To Link to the work of the Shirley Historic Records Project, click here.
The Shirley Conservation Commission's website is located at page, http://www.shirleyconcom.org.
To connect to a description of the Fredonian Park Nature Trails, click here.
To connect to Shirley's Hazen Memorial Library home page, go to http://www.shirleylibrary.org
For a 1998 Boston Globe real estate article on Shirley, containing some town statistics, click here.
To read a description of Shirley in 1873, click here.
For information on Shirley's First Parish Meetinghouse, click here.
For information on Shirley mills, click here.
For information on Shirley Center, click here.
For information on Shirley's Industrial School for Boys, click here.
For a list of all Shirley's school building projects, click here.
For a history of the D.A.R. flagpole on the Museum lawn, click here.
For the Commonwealth of Massachusetts' PDF file of
statistics
on Shirley,
go to http://www.state.ma.us/dhcd/iprofile/270.pdf
For a USGS map of Shirley, go to http://docs.unh.edu/MA/shrl51se.jpg
To connect to Freedoms Way Heritage Association, which includes historic and cultural sites in forty area towns, go to www.freedomsway.org.
For help from the Massachusetts Genealogical
Council,
go to http://massgencouncil.org
To get help with births, marriages and death
certificates from the United Kingdom, go to http://www.bmd-certificates.co.uk/
For a list of other Historical sites in Massachusetts, go to www.masshistory.org
Connect to
http://www.mass.gov/statehouse and go to
Historic
Resources for a list of other Historical Society websites.
