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Our extensive newspaper collection spans the 19th and 20th centuries
and is now easily accessible to the public online, and on our research
computer at the museum. The digitized collection includes 53 years
of the Town Times (1947-2000), an issue of the Watertown Argus from
1937, many issues of the Watertown News from 1913-1929, and several
issues of the Watertown Post, the Watertown Journal, and The Post
Boy from the 19th century. Stop in and spend some time exploring
this great collection.
CLICK HERE to View the Watertown Digital History Archive
We would also like to thank the Watertown Library, the Connecticut
State Library and the Buckingham Family for allowing us to borrow
their Watertown newspapers. However, we are still missing a few
issues of the Town Times and many more issues from the other newspapers.
Please contact the museum at (860) 274-1050 if you have any old Watertown newspapers that you
would like to donate or let us borrow, scan, and then return to
you.
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The
Watertown Historical Society has begun a very exciting project that
will digitize the entire document collection at the museum. The
Digitization Project is a groundbreaking endeavor that will bring
the museum into the technology age. The first phase of this project involved the digitization of our extensive Watertown newspaper collection. In the second phase we digitized all of our Watertown High School yearbooks. Our scrapbook collection will be digitized in the third phase and the fourth phase will involve the digitization of all the photographs and documents in our files. The Watertown Historical Society's Digitization Project is being fully funded by grants from the Woodward Foundation, the Watertown Foundation, the American Savings Bank Foundation and the Naugatuck Savings Bank Foundation. We thank them for their generosity.