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According to the donor of this postcard, who was a 1923 Northfield High School graduate, he thinks the picture was taken in front of the Northfield Trust Company after the scouts visited Jenkins Bakery (note the small sacks and treats some are…

What Vermont town is without at least one church? Northfield has several, and this is just one, St. Mary's Episcopal Church located on Main Street. According to author Jane Bryant in her article about the history of the church in our newsletter, the…

Edna Latham, born in 1890, and family lived in Northfield. The back of this postcard has written "Edna Latham's school room," so we assume she must be one of the students. The teacher is not identified, and neither is the school. Northfield had a…

Situated at the bottom of Central Street, near Depot Square and the train station, this building was many things: village hall, fire station, jail, theatorium, meeting place and even a lyric theater. The building is older than 1908, but we date this…

This photo was taken later than 1885, but surprisingly it is the only postcard in our collection that features just the Civil War monument. The town voted in 1885 to appropriate $500 to build a monument to those Northfield men who fought in the Civil…

An image of the W. A. Stowell Engine, in Montpelier on the tracks for the Montpelier and Wells River Railroad. The engine was named for William A. Stowell, a superintendent for the White Mountains Division of the Boston and Lowell Railroad, the St.…

An image of a St. Johnsbury and Lake Champlain Railroad train that left the rails and plunged down an embankment two miles out of the Hardwick train station, April 10, 1907. One passenger was killed in the accident.

An image of a baseball game on the Italian Athletic Club (I.A.C.) grounds on Berlin Street in Barre, Vermont, September 7, 1912. The site of the ballfield is today (2020) the site of Thygesen's Sports on Smith Street and the commercial buildings on…

A photograph of the B&M baseball team posing on the field with their coach and a suited man. Repository has names of the men in this image.

A photograph of the First Grand Reunion of "Barre Boys" at New Haven, Connecticut, November 25, 1916. The men are seated at a banquet table and are wearing funny hats.

A photograph of Barre Police Department officers standing by a parade float at the rear of the police station.

A photograph of some families from Orange Street who've gone out for a picnic, sometime in 1910. Only two men are in the photograph. Repository has names of some of the people in this image.