Our Collections
The Archives holds information and ephemera dating from the late 1770s to the present. Town offices (taxes, deeds, vital records), non-profit organizations (by-laws, minutes, newsletters), and families (diaries, photographs, letters) are among the creators of materials kept at the Archives. Holdings are assigned to one of six broad categories:

Government

Historical reports, minutes, and records related to town services, committees, and administration.

Business

Information & ephemera related to current and former businesses in New London.

Family

Family records, letters, memoirs, scrapbooks, obituaries, and genealogies.​

Organization

Records donated or deposited by current and former organizations and institutions in New London.

Special Collections

Maps, broadsides, photographs, videos, audio recordings, oral histories, scrapbooks, periodicals.

Reference

Published histories, gazetteers, genealogies, architectural reference, and historical magazines.