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  The Pioneer Historical Society Of Bedford County’s library is located on the second floor of the building at 242 East John Street in the borough of Bedford, Bedford County. The society also manages the Fort Bedford Museum along Fort Bedford Drive off Pitt Street.

  The Pioneer Historical Society Of Bedford County’s resources include an extensive collection of published and unpublished family histories and family files donated by patrons and members of the society. Of particular interest are the genealogical notes accumulated by Tom Imler for the WPA. The society collects church records and cemetery records for the county and surrounding region, which includes the western counties of the state of Maryland. The library contains county histories of nearly all the counties in Pennsylvania. The library possesses a complete collection of all the series of the published Pennsylvania Archives in addition to a complete set of Samuel P. Bate’s History Of Pennsylvania Volunteers 1861-1865, Volumes I, II, III, IV, published in 1869.

  In addition to books, the Pioneer Historical Society of Bedford County has amassed a collection of microfilm that includes past issues of the Bedford Gazette and the U.S. Census for Bedford County and the surrounding region.

  In 1996 the Bedford County Court House experienced broken water piping in the basement, and as a result, some of the original tax assessment returns and other records which had traditionally been stored there, were damaged. The incident pointed toward the need to provide better housing of those priceless records. The Bedford County Commissioners donated the tax assessment returns to the historical society, and they are now maintained there. Recently, a collection of veterans papers dating from the 1830s to the Civil War period were also donated to the society for safekeeping.

Website: http://www.everettlibrary.org/

  The Everett Free Library maintains some family history files, newspapers from the region, and microfilm of the U.S. Census for Bedford County for the years 1800 through 1910.

Website: http://mysite.verizon.net/saxtonlibrary/

  The Saxton Community Library maintains a collection of published and unpublished family histories along with some county history books.