Room 2A

Handwritten Records of the Warwick Lyceum 1861-1863 with loose handwritten pages also inserted.

Handwritten records of the Warwick Lyceum from 1863 to 1869

Power, Thomas - An Oration, delivered at Warwick, MA, July 4, 1815 before the Washington Benevolent Societies, and a large number of citizens.
Published by the request of the society.

Book of handwritten Universalist's Records 1815 - 1842

Spiral bound notebook of handwritten minutes of meetings of the Old Home Day Association 1933-1940.

Large scrapbook of clippings from 1903 - 1992

Inscription on first page: "P.S. 1926 R. A. Cook (Private.)"
Many quotations from famous authors in a flowery hand. Articles copied from magazines.

This bible belonged to Herbert Hellowell, an English boy who drowned in Hastings Pond on July 4, 1885, while trying to rescue a companion, Herbert Taylor. According to the boy's mother, the bible was his favorite possession, as she had given it to him before he left for America. On his headstone in Warwick's cemetery we read "He who had lost his life for my sake shall find it."

Journal written in a Common School Writing Book
Journal is of the classes of Mrs. Henry Witherell, nee Harriet F. Bowman. Journal includes the names of the students in her first through fifteenth classes. She taught for 129 weeks and had 261 different scholars. Wages earned were $305.00.

An 1864 Directory and Business Advertiser for 1864 (Worcester Almanac) includes alphabetical listing of residents