History Bits

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

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.

Brattleboro Snow

Brattleboro Snow

Brattleboro Snow 01 Brattleboro Snow 02 Upper Main Street – possibly 1888Upper Main Street – possibly 1888 Brattleboro Snow 04Photograph reproduced from an original 5X8 Glass Plate Negative Courtesy of Brattleboro Historical Society © 2001 Brattleboro Snow...