Westfield lives

This collection explores Westfield's beginnings with maps, diaries, account books and notebooks. You will find a little on the Native Americans who lived here first, but were decimated in King Philip's War and left the area.  Early maps and the first official map of Westfield portrays its original span. Bartlett's notebooks and the Proprietor's Records are great places for information on land ownership, roads, mills and early settlement as well. Snipets of some of our daybooks give an idea of daily work, the economy, and how people lived as will Lucy Fowler's diary.