This is not necessarily a comprehensive listing of all sources used in the data in this site, but most are listed here.

Barron, Hal S., Those Who Stayed Behind:  Rural Society in Nineteenth-Century New England.  Cambridge and New York:  Cambridge University Press, 1984.

Brown, Dona.  Back to the Land:  The Enduring Dream of Self-Sufficiency in Modern America.  University of Wisconsin Press, 2011.

Cronon, William. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England.  New York: Hill and Wang:2003[1983].

Donahue, Brian. The Great Meadow:  Farmers and the Land in Colonial Concord.  New Haven and London:  Yale University Press, 2004.

Garrison, J. Ritchie.  Landscape and Material Life in Franklin County, Massachusetts, 1770-1860.  Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1991.

Jacobstein, Meyer.  The Tobacco Industry in the United States.  New York:  Columbia University Press, 1907.

Miller, Marla, ed.  Cultivating a Past:  Essays on the History of Hadley, Massachusetts.  Amherst:  University of Massachusetts Press, 2009.