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    • Zoning Board of Appeals
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    • Town Administrator
    • Town Clerk
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    • Meeting Agendas
    • Post/schedule a meeting
    • Post meeting minutes
    • Town Meeting
    • Open Meeting Law during the ongoing pandemic
    • Fragrance Free Policy
  • Services
    • Emergency Management
    • Fire Department
    • Highway Department
    • Housing Rehabilitation Program
    • Library
    • Our Town Newsletter
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      • Assessors application forms
      • Brush-burning permit
      • Building permits & fee schedules
      • Citizen petition
      • DBA business certificate
      • Dog license application
      • Police forms
      • Public records requests
      • Septic system permit
      • Wetlands permit applications
      • Zoning Board of Appeals permit applications
    • Contact Town officials
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    • Forward committee email to individual members
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Welcome to the Shutesbury Historical Commission Home Page

Upcoming Meetings

The most recent and up-to-date meeting notices are available on the Town Calendar.

All meetings will be held virtually until the Stay-at-home COVID-19 mandate has been lifted.  The zoom meeting link is provided in the meeting's posted agenda.  All of our meetings are public and the public is always welcome.

To contact the Historical Commission, email us at historical@shutesbury.org.

Town History

General Historical Resources

Historic Maps

Historic Documents

75th Commemoration of Swift River Valley

UMass Libraries Special Collections Shutesbury Archive

Massachusetts Historical Commission (MHC)

Massachusetts Cultural Resource Information System (MACRIS)

Digital Commonwealth-Massachusetts Collections Online

Memorial Hall Museum Online

Native American Historical and Cultural Preservation

Ceremonial Stone Landscapes-National Center for Preservation Technology and Training (National Park Service)

2008 Department of Interior Turners Falls Decision (Redacted)

Nolumbeka Project

Native American Traditional Cultural Landscapes, Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP)

United Southern and Eastern Tribes History Home Page

Ceremonial Stone Landscapes of New England and Developing Best Practices to Assess Submerged Paleocultural Landscapes

Sacred Ceremonial Stone Landscapes in Rhode Island

New England Native American Spirit Structures, Bulletin of the Massachusetts Archaeological Society, Spring, 2013

 

Main Contact

Miriam DeFant

Secretary
historical@shutesbury.org

Members

Greg Caulton

Mary Lou Conca

Karen Czerwonka

Henry Geddes

Chair

Janice Stone

John Walter

Minutes

12/01/2020
11/17/2020
03/09/2020
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