Salisbury Public Library
17 Elm Street
Salisbury MA 01952
978-465-5071
http://www.salisburylibrary.org/
17 Elm Street
Salisbury MA 01952
978-465-5071
http://www.salisburylibrary.org/
Main floor and reception desk (below).
Stairs to the 2nd floor.
Lots of space, with good lighting. Straight ahead is a small meeting room that houses the Massachusetts vital records books (tan books).
The above interior window is from the original library.
Book stacks and reference desk. The Reference librarian walked us up and was most helpful. I actually took her away from making a Christmas tree of books.
I asked about reference material for genealogists, and she showed me this binder with a listing of burials in Salisbury, Amesbury and Merrimack in Essex Co., Massachusetts.
Sample page below. The book is online at: http://www.salisburylibrary.org/uploads/3/1/1/0/31105609/burials_~_chester___julia_true_~_2007.pdf
Other information.
The best resource is their online site of holdings, as shown by their computer screen. At home, I pulled it up, and copied it (with live links), shown below.
Young adults room. Love the color.
From the back door, you can see the town common.
The Library is new, opened to the public in October 2015 is the newest library I've visited. Just a few items were saved from the old library that was on this same site, which was was built in 1956. For professional photos, see their link. http://www.salisburylibrary.org/new-library.html
Some of the holdings in our special collections include:
Vital Records of several Massachusetts cities and towns to the year 1850 including Salisbury.
Local family genealogies and local history books.
Salisbury Town Reports from selected years dating 1872-2001.
Pike Family Association Files and PFA Allan Pike Files. Finding aid kept at the reference desk.
Visit our Special Collections Images page to see photographs that have been scanned to our digital collection.
Vital Records of several Massachusetts cities and towns to the year 1850 including Salisbury.
Local family genealogies and local history books.
Salisbury Town Reports from selected years dating 1872-2001.
Pike Family Association Files and PFA Allan Pike Files. Finding aid kept at the reference desk.
Visit our Special Collections Images page to see photographs that have been scanned to our digital collection.
History and Genealogy books related to Salisbury online:
Salisbury History by Carolyn Sargent 1995
Vital Records of Salisbury Massachusetts To The End Of The Year 1849
Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts by David Hoyt 1897
Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War
Burials In Some Cemeteries in the Towns of Salisbury, Amesbury and Merrimac, in Essex County, Massachusetts by Chester and Julia True 2007
Salisbury's Earliest Settlers by J.Q. Evans 1896
History of Amesbury Including the First Seventeen Years of Salisbury, To the Seperation in 1654;
and Merrimac From Its Incorporation in 1876 by Joseph Merrill 1880