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ResearchThis Week in Brattleboro History – Daughters of the American Revolution
It was 103 years ago this week that the Vermont Phoenix reported that the local chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution was locating and marking the graves of Revolutionary War soldiers in Brattleboro and nearby towns. You may not be aware that Brattleboro...
Annette Spaulding presents petroglyph find at the Vermont History Museium
In the spring of 1909, the completion of a new hydro-electric dam in Vernon created at 28 mile long lake, from Vermont's southern boarder with Massachusetts to Bellows Falls, as waters began to back up and subsume much of the river-adjacent countryside. On...
This Week in Brattleboro History – H.P. Lovecraft
It was 86 years ago this week that the writer HP Lovecraft was home in Providence, Rhode Island creating his story, “The Whisperer in Darkness”. Lovecraft was a self-described writer of “weird tales” which often blended fantasy, horror and science fiction. “The...
This Week in Brattleboro History – The Trophies
This Week in Brattleboro History – Prohibition
This Week in Brattleboro History – Prohibition v. The Local Option
This Week in Brattleboro History – Town Meeting Day!
This Week in Brattleboro History – The Brattleboro Rat!
This Week in Brattleboro History – Dunham Brothers Co.
Slideshow: Brattleboro’s Main Street Throughout the Years
This Week in Brattleboro History – The West River Railroad and Robert Burns
This Week in Brattleboro History – Island Park flood of 1905
This Week in Brattleboro History – Ex-Slave Jacob Cartledge
This Week in Brattleboro History – Wearing Toilets?
It was one 120 years ago this week that a fancy dinner party at the Brooks House was attended by 125 of the most prominent citizens in Brattleboro, and a local paper reported to each attendee wore extremely rich and handsome toilets. Eh, toilets? BHS trustee, Joe...
Video – Brooks Memorial Library 1st Wednesday Series, from December 2015: The Buildings of Vermont
Middlebury College professor Glenn Andres examines the remarkable range, quality, humanity, and persistence of Vermont’s built landscape, in this talk that looks beyond Vermont’s pastoral stereotypes to examine the remarkable range, quality, humanity, and persistence...