Taunton City Records

Archive

-

Old Colony History Museum

Name/Title

Taunton City Records

Entry/Object ID

MSS-05-005

Scope and Content

The Taunton City Records includes 9 boxes, 400 folders, and 1 box of street directories, maps of Taunton, Bristol and Plymouth County, pathfinders, mayoral correspondences, revised ordinances and charters, cemetery rules and regulations, flood insurance studies and maps, water quality reports, water commissioners annual reports, Taunton histories, school department reports, municipal registers and annual reports, city of Taunton annual reports, Taunton housing authority reports, Taunton zoning districts, departmental reports and recognitions, mayoral addresses, assessor’s street list, Taunton city documents, register of voters street list, petitions, orders and committee notices from the committee of Public Property, Fire department, committee of Streets and Bridges, the City Clerk’s office, and the committee of finance, and correspondences to and from people in and working for the city of Taunton.

Context

Taunton is a city in Bristol County Massachusetts and one of the oldest in the United States. It was founded as a town in 1639 and incorporated as a city in 1864. The city has a Mayoral-Council form of government and is the seat of Bristol County.

Archive Details

Archive Size/Extent

BOX 1 1876 – 2013: Street guides, street directories, assessor’s street lists, and pathfinders, Maps of Taunton, Bristol and Plymouth County, directories and transportation map, water quality reports, water commissioners’ annual reports, water system improvements, pollution reports, and flood insurance rate maps and studies BOX 2 1876-2014: Contains mayoral addresses, water reports, health department reports, and other various documents. BOX 3 1887 - 1998: cemetery rules and regulations, Board of Health regulations and reports, Taunton annual reports and municipal registers, Housing authority reports and zoning districts, City of Taunton ordinances and revised charters, Traffic ordinances, Construction ordinances, City of Taunton city government, Sewage department reports and committees, Clerk’s office correspondence. BOX 4 1822 – 1964: Committee on Public Property correspondence, Town treasurer receipts and expenditures, Town meeting records, Taunton histories and accounts, Registrar of voters’ street list, Fire department reports BOX 5 - 7 1890 – 1892: Reports and petitions of the Department of liquor licenses Committee on Streets and Bridges orders, petitions, and reports BOX 7- 8 1890 – 1892: Petitions for the title of undertaker, for a license to sell and store kerosene, a license as an auctioneer, a license to sell fireworks, move buildings, hitching posts, to occupy sidewalks, and gun holder licenses BOX 8 1890 - 1892; Claims and reports of the Taunton Railway Co., Petitions to dig up streets, put up barber poles and signs, and miscellaneous petitions, Annual police report, Reports of the City Solicitor BOX 9 1890 – 1892; Elections, resignations, and reports of ward precinct officers and other elected officials, Committee on Finance reports, petitions, and correspondences, Committee on Sinking Funds reports and orders, Overseers of the Poor reports, Annual reports of the City Marshall, Reports and schedules of all departments, Advertisements Series 2 29 bound books including municipal registers, annual reports, school department and committee reports, histories of Taunton, street lists, mayoral correspondences, ordinances, charters, and city documents. Series 3 24 shelved books including histories, municipal registers, annual reports, registers of voters, street lists, and official Taunton city documents.