The Dunning Collection (Bartol Room)
The Dunning Collection (Bartol Room)
The Dunning materials are available as reference materials in the Bartol Room. Col. Thurlow R. Dunning, who died in the mid 1970s, compiled notebooks of Freeport Family History. Library staff copied them and had them bound.
They are indexed by family name. Col. Dunning also made lists of the inscriptions he found on headstones in local cemeteries. We also have these records. We have other family histories as well as town histories that often had extensive genealogical notes.
Soon we will have a genealogy program loaded on the PC that is designated for public use in the Bartol Room. People will be able to buy a disk and start a family history.
The Bartol Room
The Bartol Room houses the Maine and Freeport History Collections. We have local newspaper and obituary scrapbooks that date from 1961 to the present.We have town reports dating from 1864 and the early Clarions and current Freeport High School Yearbooks. The vertical file includes the 1857, 1971, and 1909 Freeport maps. These materials are reference and must stay in this room.
The Bartol Room also houses the videos we own about Maine. Most of the book collection may be checked out. We have books that were purchased when the Bartol Library opened in 1905 and we have Art of the Maine Islands that was published recently.
The Bartol Room is a quiet work area with plenty of space for researchers. We have four work tables, a public access computer, a rocking chair, and an easy chair that is positioned just inside the floor to ceiling window that overlooks the birdfeeder and the woods. Assistant Librarian Vicki Lowe has her office in this room and welcomes questions and discussions on local history and genealogy.
None of the early books have lengthy or complete computer entries. Be sure to tell us which local families, neighborhoods, houses, or businesses you are researching and we'll help you get started.
The Dunning Collection
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