Pupils at Amsden School about 1885 were: Boys in front row left to right, George Hutchinson, Ira Hutchinson, John Kendall, Will Hesseltine, William P. Covell, Arthur Frail. Girls - first row, Winnie Kendall, Gertie Bixby, Kate Hutchinson, May Hoisington, Bertha Hutchinson. Back row, Minnie Wardner, Florence Merrill (teacher), Fanny Bixby. "Fall Term, taken in 1880s or early 1890s. Mr. Amsden built it." Photo by G. L. E. Tarbell, Ludlow Vt. a gift to WHS by Louise W. Covell |
The so-called Amsden Store building was built by Charles Amsden around 1869 as his home, and that of some of his Amsden Lime Co. employees in today's hamlet of Amsden. What was once a booming lime quarrying and manufacturing business, Amsden is situated at a bend in the road on Route 131, just a mile from the junction of Route 106 at Downers Corners. |
Ascutney Union Church, Weathersfield Vermont. Built in 1846. A 1901 photograph by James Wilson Green, father of renowned photographer Newell Green. At left is Newell's mother, Julia Newell Green, at right is her neice, Cora Dartt, with the 6 month old Newell in the carriage. |
Old 600-foot covered bridge across the Connecticut River between
Ascutney and Claremont, New Hampshire. Built in 1837, replacing Sumner’s Ferry, chartered at this location in 1784; once one of eleven covered bridges in Weathersfield, destroyed by flood in 1902, replaced by another ferry, and then by a series of highway bridges. |
First Congregational Church and Meeting House in Weathersfield Center.
Black and white photograph by Newell Green, a professional photographer who owned a home in Ascutney for many years. |
Wood’s Cider Mill. This 1910 photo shows the cleaning-up process after sugaring at what was then the Aldrich farmhouse. The Aldrich/Wood family has been making maple syrup here since the early 1800s, and apple cider, cider jelly, and boiled cider since 1882. |
A color postcard of First Congregational Church of Weathersfield and Civil War Monument in the grove at Weathersfield Center, across the road from the Dan Foster House Museum. Services are held upstairs throughout the summer months, as well as (downstairs) the Annual August Frippery tag sale, the major Historical Society's fundraising event. |
The original cupola of Weathersfield Center's First Congregational Church and Meeting House photographed by Ronald Knapp sometime before the building burned in 1985. A gift to the WHS from Lorraine Patch Zigman |
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The Reverend Dan Foster House |
Downer's Hotel & Dance Hall ("Mecca of Pleasure Seekers") Weathersfield, Vermont. Built 1831, popular for sleighing parties, dancing, picnics, and politics, until it burned in 1916; also home of the Weathersfield Panther, shot nearby and stuffed in 1867, rescued and now at the Weathersfield Historical Society's Dan Foster House, Weathersfield Center. |
In the small hours of July 23rd 1867 Joshua and Abigail (Harlow) Gowing were murdered in their home south of Ascutneyville by Henry Williams their hired man, also known as Hiram Miller. The motive was apparently robbery, but nothing was taken except the lives of the Gowings. Mr. Williams/Miller was apprehended the next day, tried, and later executed. The Gowings are buried in the Ascutneyville Cemetery. This photo of the Gowing home, in 1998 owned by Neil Daniels, taken by a Mr. King, of Windsor VT. |
Kendricks Corners schoolhouse from a postcard mailed in 1909. It was located "astride the brook" approximately where the Everett & Marguerite Bryant home (1990) is. The road toward the right which crosses the bridge, traveled to the Dr. Ariel Kendrick home, and then on to North Springfield, coming out by the present general store on Main Street.
(A gift to the Weathersfield Historical Society from Helen L. Taylor) |
The Dr. Ariel Kendrick house at Kendricks Corners on the Weathersfield-Springfield town line. This photo was taken in 1913, when the Roy C. Wilber family occupied it. Some family members are shown here - Victor Wilber, Roy C. Wilber and Howard C. Wilber. Roy Wilber and Arthur Dix married sisters.
The house burned 21 January 1920 while the Wilber family was there. It was rebuilt by Bert and Edith Swan. In the 1990s the place was owned by Richard and Joyce Rumrill.
(This photo given to the WHS by Dr. Kendrick's grandson A. Kendrick Boyce of West Bridgewater MA) |
The mill in Perkinsville Lower Village along the Black River. These buildings on the left were gone by the 1940s.
The Edward 'Ted'and Vinnie King home is on the right, as well as many other family homes that were
removed to make way for the North Springfield Flood Control dam in the late 1950s.
The photographs is a gift to the Weathersfield Historical Society by Myrtle Baker. |
"Martin's Store and Residence, Ascutneyville, Vermont." Operated for many years as the Ascutney Country Store, next to the present-day post office which was once Clarence Martin's Studebaker dealership. Now home to Claire Murray Rugs. |
The Jonathan Allen House, built around 1790 on Little Ascutney Rd.
This photo of Edwin and Lois Murray was probably taken soon after they bought the farm around 1905. The Murray Family lived in the house for nearly 75 years. |
Perhaps a house in Weathersfield, this photograph is from a collection of glass negatives recently given to the Weathersfield Historical Society by the David Hoisington family. If you recognize this place, please contact the library archivist at rwdbry@sover.net |
Old post office and stage stop, Perkinsville,
Vermont. founded in 1837, used to function as feed and supply
store, an all-purpose general store and gathering place
for conversation and public notices. |
The Power Plant in lower Perkinsville, still in existence, though the building is gone.
The dam is just downstream of the mill buildings pictured above.
The steeple of the Perkinsville Community Church can be seen in the distance above the dam.
This photograph was a gift to the Weathersfield Historical Society by Myrtle Baker. |
The Stoughton Covered Bridge that was in Weathersfield before the North Springfield Flood Control Dam was put in.
This photograph was taken in 1959, before the bridge was removed to its present Perkinsville location in Andrew Titcomb's field.
This area shown, looking east, is now under water at Stoughton Pond.
The photograph was gift to the Weathersfield Historical Society by Phillip Davis. |
The old Stoughton Homestead, Weathersfield Vermont. Built by prominent pioneer settler, Nathaniel Stoughton in 1789, the home was moved in 1959 by his great great grandson Joseph Potwin Stoughton, to avoid destruction from a flood control project, to its present location on Route 131. Shown are Joe Stoughton's aunt, uncle, father, grandfather and grandmother. |
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