Memorial Libriaries

The Henry N. Flynt Memorial Library serves primarily as a resource center to support research in Historic Deerfield's museum collections. John Kenneth Byard's personal library of nearly two hundred books on American decorative arts, presented after his death in 1959, forms the nucleus of the Flynt Library. Today, holdings include 17,000 printed volumes, 130 periodical titles, and over 2,000 microforms, accessible through an on-line catalog. The active acquisition of published secondary sources and rare materials continues to be aided by endowments and gifts.

Please click here to search the library's online catalog via the Internet.

The Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association Library collections represent to an extraordinary degree the life and thought of one small town from the close of the 17th century to the 20th. The reading matter of generations of Deerfield inhabitants contained in the library constitutes a unique social and cultural record. The library's 24,000 books embody nearly three centuries of reading fare, much of which exists in rare
imprints - literature, sermons, history, travel, biography, periodicals, and works on agriculture, animal husbandry, and domestic economy.  The library also has an extensive manuscript collection, rich in material on family and local history.

The jointly administered Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association Library and the Henry N. Flynt Library of Historic Deerfield, Inc. are located at 6 Memorial Street in Deerfield, Massachusetts. The libraries are open to the public, subject to regulations regarding access to and use of materials. Circulation of library materials is restricted. Permission to publish items in the libraries' collections requires written application to the librarian

For further information regarding library services, please contact David Bosse at 413-775-7126, or send e-mail to library@historic-deerfield.org