Wesselhoeft Water Cure
Water Cure Dr. Wesselhoeft In the 1840’s one in five children born alive did not live to see their 1st birthday. The average life expectancy was less than 40 years. Many doctors bled their patients when they didn’t feel well and prescribed medicines that contained...
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...
Podcast Episode 305
Laundry, Chinese Exclusion Act, Female Businesses, Technology, Immigration…this story has it all! The first commercial laundries emerged in the 1840’s with Steam Laundries appearing in the 1870’s…the Custom Laundry (female-owned) began in 1887 and operated until 2010.
BHS e301-Vermont Constitution and Indentured Servants
Episode 301 Vermont Constitution and Indentured Servants In 1777 the Vermont Constitution banned some forms of bondage. In the historical society collection are indentured servant contracts that are examples of how some forms of bondage continued into the...