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...lumber and milled the components of the clothespin into the right shape. Located on the bank of the Winooski River along Memorial Drive, the U.S. Clothespin Company’s factory used an array of high-tech...
...with questions. Register here About the Presenters Miriam Block, Executive Director, Heritage Winooski Mill Museum Sarah Rooker, Executive Director, Norwich Historical Society Teresa Greene, Collections Manager, VHS Amanda Gustin, Director of Collections & Access, VHS Andrew Liptak, PR & Sales Coordinator, VHS Meg Mallory, Outreach Educator, VHS Eileen Corcoran, Director of Service & Outreach, VHS
...further floods in the future. One of those projects was the East Barre Dam on the Jail Branch of the Winooski.
The city of Winooski, Vermont turns 100 years old in 2022. Vermont Historical Society executive director Stephen Perkins speaks with Joseph Perrin, the president of the Winooski Historical Society about...
The city of Winooski celebrates its 100th year in 2022, and to commemorate the milestone, its commissioned and displayed 100 photographs of current residents throughout the city. It's a beautiful snapshot...
The Winooski Block is a centerpiece of the city's downtown core. But in the 1970s, city planners wanted to tear it down as part of an urban renewal project. The son of the building's owner, Russell Niquette...
...formation. Ethan Allen and his family moved to Burlington in 1787 where they farmed land along the Winooski River. He died in 1789. Alongside Allen's own myth-building, Daniel P. Thompson's 1840 novel...
...elsewhere while foreign immigrants moved into industrial areas such as Barre, Rutland, Springfield, and Winooski. Like other places in America during the first half of the twentieth century, tensions...
...Courtesy of the First Congregational Church, Burlington) (center) View of the North Branch of the Winooski River in Montpelier after the 1927 Flood. (bottom) Country dance festival at Kent’s Corners...
...Vermont’s borders. The number of textile mills declined, but the ones that survived, like those in Winooski, grew large enough to compete with other northeastern mills. The machine-tool industry...
...enhance relationships and connections to the environment. Many place names in Vermont, such as the Winooski (onion) and Missisquoi (flint place) Rivers, have their origin in Abenaki words. A small island...
The Porter Screen Company in Winooski billed itself as the largest manufacturer of window screens in the world. Started in 1881, it utilized a network of salesmen to sell window screens for a wide variety...
...Civil War St. Johnsbury - Cemetery Swanton Waterbury Waterbury - Little River History Hike Windsor Winooski - River Walk Winooski - Mill Power Sites Woodstock Email education@vermonthistory.org to suggest...
...Kenneth Bessett, Sr. Merritt Carpenter Part 1 Part 2 Albert Spaulding Background information The Winooski and Burlington Horse Railroad Company began operation in 1885, the first street railroad in the...
...the 2011 floods are still being assessed). The list of dead totaled 84, with 55 lives lost in the Winooski River basin alone. In Bolton, 19 in one boarding house drowned when the Bolton Valley Dam broke...
...Depression. Workers in the urban industrial centers—most notably Rutland, Barre, Burlington, Winooski, Springfield, and Windsor—bore a disproportionate share of Depression-era misery. Rural...
...of the 1927 flood (see program #9), flood control activities focused on dam construction on the Winooski River and its principal tributaries. C.C.C. crews worked with the Army Corps of Engineers and...
...manufacturing equipment to produce armaments and parts. Woolen manufacturing surged in Windsor County, Winooski, and Northfield. The marble sheds in Rutland produced wooden aircraft parts and packing...
...Judith M. Adams (152) When the Veterans Came to Vermont: The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Winooski River Flood Control Project Thomas W. Patton (160) Book Reviews (190) More About Vermont History...
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Please Note: We make every effort to ensure the information listed for open hours or events is accurate, but we recommend contacting the organization directly to confirm before making plans to visit.
The Leahy Library of the Vermont Historical Society has extensive collections of photographs, postcards, and other images. These collections offer unsurpassed glimpses into Vermont's past. Most of these...
...support of Jefferson's 1807 embargo the revenue boat Fly engaged the smuggling boat Black Snake on the Winooski River. Death and injury on both sides horrified Vermont, leading to the state supporting...
The Champlain Mill was a textile mill which employed many immigrants, including children. Photographer Lewis Hine documented some of the child laborers at the mill in the early 1900s.
On the corner of Pearl and Winooski in downtown Burlington was the site of the first brewery in Burlington circa 1800. It supplied calories and nutrition to the local UVM students and was considered a...
...Ira Allen was a land speculator and developer who acquired thousands of acres centered around the Winooski River. Wanting to increase the political and social power of that area, he offered 50 acres of...
