Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: West BrattleboroMary E. Wilkins Freeman, beloved 19th century American author and Brattleboro local, began her 50-year literary career in Brattleboro. She published over 250 short stories, 14 novels, and 3 plays. Freeman was quite an original....
William Czar Bradley II & Brooks Memorial Library
William Czar Bradley II & Brooks Memorial Library: Downtown BrattleboroWilliam Czar Bradley II, grandson of the famous jurist and poet from Westminster, was the first library director of Brook Memorial Library, serving from 1884 until about 1904. He was class poet...
Wells Fountain
The IconWells Fountain, one of Brattleboro’s best-loved landmarks, stand proudly on the northern edge of its downtown shopping district. Designed in 1890 by Brattleboro architect William Rutherford Mead (cousin to President Rutherford B. Hayes) and funded by William...
BHS Newsletter Summer 2019
Brattleboro Union High School Yearbook 1968
Jody Williams
Nobel Laureate Jody Williams Who is Jody Williams? Jody Williams was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 for founding and leading the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, an unprecedented cooperative effort that brought governments, United Nations bodies, the...
BHS e331-Brattleboro Floral Arts and Garden Club
Community Service and Volunteerism are both celebrated in this recording highlighting the history and contributions of the local garden club... BrattHistoricalSoc · BHS e331-Brattleboro Floral Arts and Garden Club
History Bits
1958 Vermont’s oldest bank and its largest commercial bank merged to become the Vermont National and Savings Bank. The banks which merged were the Vermont Savings Bank, the oldest savings bank which was organized in 1846, and the Vermont Peoples National Bank of...
Indigenous Sites
Since long before the advent of writing, right here in the Connecticut River Valley there have lived a people known as the Sokoki Abenaki (or, translated into English from the original Sokwakiak, “The People Who Separated”).
They are the original people of this place, and they are still here. Their native tongue, Aln8ba8dwaw8gan—the Western Abenaki language—is still extant, but greatly endangered.
