Schools - Records and correspondence

Scope and Contents This collections contains the papers and photographs collected by Evelyn Pike Ferris during the nearly 60 years that she lived in Greenwich. They reflect Evelyn's keen interest in maintaining the history of her family and community and primarily related to her husband's branch of the Ferris family in early Greenwich history, and to the several community organizations in Greenwhich that she was deeply involved in. The family records relate to several ancestors of Edgar Ferris,...

Scope and Contents This collection consists of varying ledgers from around Greenwich and East Port Chester, now Byram. These ledgers are varying, from personal autograph books and home guest books, to pharmacy records, to government tax lists, and school birth records. The four broad series arrangements; family ledgers, business and commercial ledgers, greenwich government ledgers, and greenwich school ledgers; give an appropriate overview of what each contains. This collection is described entirely to an...

Scope and Contents This Collection primarily contains the office files of Greenwich Public School Superintendent Maynard W. Linn during the years 1941-1946 when the Town of Greenwich and its public school system was responding to the demands of WWII on the local population. The records include the evacuation plans and the civil defense communications systems put in place for the town and the schools; the Greenwich and National Safety Council initiatives regarding public safetoy for the town; the extensive use...