Local History

• Annual Reports, Town of Acton
• Arthur Fuller Davis Gallery
• Assessors' Lists, Historical
• Church Records, Early
• Civil War website, Acton Memorial Library
• Ebooks, Local History
• Fitzgerald piano
• Genealogy Collection and Genealogy subscription databases
• High School Yearbooks
• Newspapers, Local
• “Not Afraid to Go” exhibit
• Patriots' Day
• Photographs: Historical images of Acton
• Pine Hawk archaeological site
• Town Meeting Records
• World War I Roll of Honor
• World War II: Pages from the Acton Beacon

Outside links

• Acton Historical Commission
• Acton Historical Society
  • Historical markers, memorials and monuments in Acton (Acton Historical Society)
• Acton Minutemen
• Digital Commonwealth: Explore historical collections from libraries, museums, and archives across Massachusetts
• FamilySearch.org, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• Find a Grave
  • Cemetery, Mt. Hope Cemetery on findagrave.com
  • North Acton (Forest) Cemetery  on findagrave.com
  • Woodlawn Cemetery on findagrave.com
• Internet Archive
  • Books contributed by the Acton Memorial Library

• Iron Work Farm
• Library of Congress
  • South Acton, Mass., 1886, Bird's-Eye-View, by L.R. Burleigh
• Massachusetts Archives
  • Digital repository
    • 1794 Plan of Acton by Jabez Brown
    • 1831 Plan of Acton by John G. Hales
• Massachusetts Cultural Resource Information System (MACRIS).
  • There are 700+ inventory records for properties in Acton, including those listed below, which are also in the National Register of Historic Places Inventory:
    • Acton Centre Historic District (ACT.K)
    • Acton High School (ACT.656)
    • Davis, Isaac Trail (ACT.900)
    • Exchange Hall (ACT.494)
    • Faulkner Homestead (ACT.490)
    • Hosmer, Jonathan and Simon House (ACT.168)
    • Jones Tavern (ACT.415)
    • North Acton Cemetery (Forest Cemetery)  (ACT.S)
    • Robbins, John House (ACT.41)
• Massachusetts Historical Society
• Middlesex South Registry of Deeds; The library also owns a 8 CD set that includes Grantor Images, 1896-1973.
• National Archives, Resources for Genealogists
• National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service
• Preservation Briefs, National Park Service
• Topographic maps, Historical: USGS TopoView