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The Peters Papers and the Oxford Press on microfilm are two excellent resources for doing genealogical and local history research at the Oxford Public Library.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The region has many helpful research repositories for those studying the past and many are found tucked away in the corner of our community libraries.\u00a0 One of those great places for studying Chester County\u2019s and the area\u2019s heritage is the Katherine B. Alexander Memorial Library in Oxford, PA.\u00a0 Serv<\/a>ing Southern Chester County, it is an old institution, the first in the County and the third oldest in PA, it having been established in 1784.<\/p>\n

Over the decades I have stopped there periodically to use the local history resources, and a project I am working on took me up that way a few days ago.\u00a0 Each time, I visit I am reminded of the value of these local history collections, tucked away in the corner of our public institutions.\u00a0 In addition, the Oxford Area Historical Association maintains its materials there, strengthening resource for studying genealogy and local history.<\/p>\n

In the collection is a long run of the Oxford Press, a particularly well-produced weekly newspaper.\u00a0 The publisher knew what sold newspapers, cram them with creative, original copy from a broad area.\u00a0 They succeeded and each week the broadsheet covered the main stories, while also providing the \u201clocal news of three counties \u2013 Chester and Lancaster, Penna, and Cecil County, MD.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is one of the best papers in this region that I encounter for getting column from many of the smaller villages in the tri-state region.\u00a0 Each week the pages are filled with social happenings and smaller news pieces, as the special correspondents wrote in from out-of-the-way places, making sure virtually nothing was missed.\u00a0 Or as the Press noted in its masthead: \u201chappenings in town and country condensed by alert correspondents for busy readers.\u201d\u00a0 This serial\u00a0is available at the Oxford Library from 1866 to 1970s.<\/p>\n

The Peters\u2019 Papers are another excellent resource, making the past accessible.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Sometime back in the 1980s or so a Mr. Peters spent untold hours examining those old weeklies to carefully extracting the local reporting and create indexes.\u00a0 His nearly 30 notebooks are\u00a0very helpful, as the Oxford Pa is not on microfilm and thus is not text searchable.\u00a0 \u00a0But thanks to the labors of Mr. Peters, there is an index and I am able to quickly find topical materials.<\/p>\n

Of course, there are plenty of 19th and early 20th century maps, business directories, local histories and lots more.\u00a0 Thank you Oxford Public Library for preserving the region\u2019s past and making it broadly available to everyone as we study genealogy, local history or some other subject.<\/p>\n

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The Oxford Press and its local columns are an excellent resource for family and local history research.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Peters<\/a>
The Peters Papers at the Oxford Public LIbrary<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The region has many helpful research repositories for those studying the past and many are found tucked away in the corner of our community libraries.\u00a0 One of those great places for studying Chester County\u2019s and the area\u2019s heritage is the Katherine B. 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The Enoch Pratt Free Library has many excellent resources for those digging into state, local, and family history.\u00a0 Those materials include microfilm reels containing practically every extant newspaper in\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/6103922480_9fb3af15b0_b.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/6103922480_9fb3af15b0_b.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/6103922480_9fb3af15b0_b.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/6103922480_9fb3af15b0_b.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1013,"url":"https:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/presentation-on-research-and-writing-about-history\/","url_meta":{"origin":1616,"position":4},"title":"Presentation on Research and Writing About History","author":"Mike","date":"April 21, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"On the day the Digital Public Library of America opened its virtual doors to the public, I was in Havre de Grace to do a talk with author Heidi Glatfelter on \u201cResearching and Writing about the War of 1812.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 We took a team approach to the program as I focused\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Consulting Historian"","block_context":{"text":"Consulting Historian","link":"https:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/category\/consulting-historian\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"The Digital Public Library of America","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/4-20-2013-10-35-28-PM.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/4-20-2013-10-35-28-PM.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/4-20-2013-10-35-28-PM.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/4-20-2013-10-35-28-PM.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/4-20-2013-10-35-28-PM.jpg?resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1715,"url":"https:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/dorchester-county-public-library-has-strong-local-and-family-history-research-collection\/","url_meta":{"origin":1616,"position":5},"title":"Dorchester County Public Library Has Strong Local and Family History Research Collection","author":"Mike","date":"May 27, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"The Delmarva region has many helpful research repositories for studying the past. Many are found in public libraries, and in that group there is the M. Virginia Webb Memorial Maryland Room at the Dorchester County Public Library (DCPL). I have used this collection periodically over the years, and last week\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"Dorchester County Public Library","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/milford-466as-225x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}