Resources
Here are numerous links to helpful resources.
Follow Local Organizations
Town of Shirley, MA
Ayer-Shirley Regional School District
Shirley Police Department
Shirley Fire Department
ShirleyArts!
Shirley Public Library
Shirley Recreation
Benjamin Hill Pool and Park
The Historic Shirley Meeting House
Shirley Public Access Television
Shirley’s Christmas Planning Group
The Trustees of Reservations
Holdenwood Trail Run
Playboard of Shirley
Ayer-Shirley PTO
Shirley Penguins
Shirley Senior Center
The Shirley Rod and Gun Club
St. Anthonys Church
Trinity Chapel
Shirley Christian Fellowship
Shirley Videos
Shirley History Essays
Timeline of Shirley History
For a list of topics in our file drawers, go here.
Click here to see the James Parker Diary 1770 – 1851
Ray Farrar’s Memories of Shirley People and Places
143 Years of Shirley School History (This is a PDF file)
Shirley USA Lyrics
Bob Burkhardt’s Shirley Oil Pastels
Shirley Mills
White Brothers’ Mills in Woodsvillage
Shirley Center
Shirley’s Industrial School for Boys
Industrial School Memories
Shirley’s School Building Projects
History of the D.A.R. Flagpole
Shirley’s First Parish Meetinghouse
Cranberrying in Shirley
Hazen-Davis Farm
Louise Longley’s story of “The Land We Love or The Last Dairy Farm in Shirley”
Shirley Agriculture
Phoenix Beverage Company
Timeline of the Samson Cordage – Phoenix Park Property
Lura A. White, for whom the elementary school is named
How the Spanish Flu of 1918 affected the town of Shirley
Shaker Road Property
Community Club of Shirley Center
31 Shaker Road land development
For a list of early 20th century news clippings, go here
Local Organizations Websites
Farandnear
Shirley Charitable Foundation
Gardeners Exchange
Summer in Shirley
General Shirley Information
Shirley was named the Most Historic Small Town in the country.
Go to ePodunk and enter Shirley, MA and see what they’ve got to say about us.
Shirley in 1873
1998 Boston Globe real estate article on Shirley
USGS Map of Shirley
