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The Local History Room is located on the 3rd floor of the library. The room is currently locked, but patrons can request access anytime the library is open by stopping by any of the Reference Desks on the 1st or 2nd floors, or going to the Information Center on the 3rd floor.
Our digital collections include books, maps, the Newton Graphic newspaper (1886-1986), and oral histories. Other items in our digital collections may be found on the Digital Commonwealth and Internet Archive
There are Newton subject and biography card index files on the left as you enter the Local History Room. The biography card file is located in the drawers immediately to the right of the Newton subject card file index.
The subject index contains citations to newspapers, periodicals, and books in the in the collection about Newton.
The biography index contains citations to newspapers, periodicals, and books in the collection about Newton residents, past and present, which includes obituaries.
The subject and biography card indexes were closed on 12/31/1999. Please refer to the online Newton News Index for entries from January 1999 – December 2021, and check out the Newton News Obituary Index for a list of obituaries. (see the below section Where do I find an obituar • (1643-1727) Isaac Newton was a physicist and mathematician who developed the principles of modern physics, including the laws of motion and is credited as one of the great minds of the 17th-century Scientific Revolution. In 1687, he published his most acclaimed work, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy), which has been called the single most influential book on physics. In 1705, he was knighted by Queen Anne of England, making him Sir Isaac Newton. Newton was born on January 4, 1643, in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England. Using the "old" Julian calendar, Newton's birth date is sometimes displayed as December 25, 1642. Newton was the only son of a prosperous local farmer, also named Isaac, who died three months before he was born. A premature baby born tiny and weak, Newton was not expected to survive. When he was 3 years old, his mother, Hannah Ayscough Newton, remarried a well-to-do minister, Barnabas Smith, and went to live with him, leaving young Newton with his maternal grandmother. The experience left an indelible imprint on Newton, later manifesting itself as an acute sense of insecurity. He anxiously obsessed over his published wo
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Who Was Isaac Newton?
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