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- ↑ Town of Wheatland Official Site – Our History
- ↑ Carl F Schmidt (2002) History of the Town of Wheatland: Scottsville Mumford Garbutt Belcoda Beulah Wheatland Center. First published in Rochester in 1953 in very limited numbers. In 2002, the Wheatland Historical Association commissioned the Higginson reprint.
