The Marlborough
Historical Society

Putting the Property Survey Online

In 2008, as part of the Marlborough Historical Society's commitment to historic preservation and eduction, the entire contents of this five-volume printed report, Marlborough Survey of Historic, Architectural, and Cultural Resources, were scanned and put online here as searchable documents for everyone to use. 

One of our central goals in this project was to make the information as easy to get to and use as possible, while recognizing that, other than a few-page narrative, the rest of the report was available only as paper files.

Because of this, the entire five volumes had to be scanned.  The scanning was done at 200 dpi and the text was converted into searchable PDFs using ReadIris Pro 11, which turned all of the text and some of the handwritten map notation into searchable text.

Each document was saved using the street or area that it described as the title.