Library and Archive

Library Resources


  • History of Wayne, Pike and Monroe Counties, by Alfred Mathews, 1886.
    (Link to online archive)
  • Commemorative Biographical Record of Northeastern Pennsylvania, by J. H. Beers & Co, 1900. (Link to online archive)
  • History of Wayne County, by Phineas G. Goodrich, 1880
  • Illustrated Wayne, 1900–1902, by Benjamin F. Haines
  • History of Pike County, by Lori Strelecki, 1976
  • Pike County Roads and the Origins of Their Names, by Township Historians, 1978
  • A History of Sterling, by The Rev. Garford Flavel Williams, 1950.
  • The West Sterling Story and Its Settlers, by Nancy McLain, 2014.
  • The Greene Hills of Home, a quarterly journal published by the Greene-Dreher Historical Society, 1984 to 2020.
  • GDS Fair Premium books, 1932 To present
  • Greene-Dreher Alumni Association Souvenir Journals, 1945 to Present.
  • One-Room Schools in Greene and Dreher Townships, by Diane B. Smith and Bernadine Lennon, second edition, 2019.
  • Hettie Ace Diaries, 1897–1935; transcribed by Jeanne Carlton Layton, c. 2005
  • History of the Hopedale Moravian Church, Newfoundland, Pennsylvania, 1837–1912, by Rev. Edmund Schwarze, 1912.
  • History of the Blooming Grove Hunting and Fishing Club 1871–1999, by Frank Froment and Theodore W. Cart, 1999.
  • Skytop Lodge, by Claire Gierwatowski, 2015
  • The Story of River Road—Life Along the Delaware from Bushkill to Milford, Pike County, by William F. Henn, 1975.
  • Holt! T’Other Way!, by Leslie C. Wood, 1950
  • The Winding Delaware, by Pierre DeNio, 1955
  • The Poconos, by Carroll B. Tyson, 1929
  • Promised Land State Park, by Peter Osborne, 2006
  • The History of Monroe County, Pennsylvania, During the Civil War, by LeRoy Jennings Koehler, 1950.
  • My Life in America—Before, During, and After the Civil War, by Louis Hensel. Translated from the German by Sigrid Wilshinsky, 2012
  • Field Guide to New England Barns and Farm Buildings, by Thomas Durant Visser, 1997.
  • 1872 Beers Maps of Greene and Sterling Townships
  • Index of Births of Greene Township, Pike County, 1908–1947
  • Family scrapbooks with newspaper clippings dating from the early 1900s
  • Autograph books dating from the 1880s
  • Greene-Dreher-Sterling High School Yearbooks and senior booklets, 1919 – 1963
  • Family genealogies and histories, including: Beischer Family 90th Reunion, 2014; Kipp: A Family Story, 2004; Descendents of Gabriel Scot Brown, 2005; Ehrhardt Family History; John Peet 1597-1684 of Stratford, CT & His Descendants, 1986; The Family of Gumble, 2000; Vaughn Shipwrights of Kensington, Philadelphia, 1982; Historical Notes of the Family of Kip of Kipsburg and Kip’s Bay, reprinted 2014; Genealogy of Pioneer John Shaffer, 1991; Descendants of Benjamin Beach and Elizabeth Rush.
  • DVD: Ice Harvesting in Greene Township, produced by GDHS;
  • DVD: She Painted the World– Life of Jennie Brownscombe, produced by Wayne County Historical Society