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Northfield's railroad station, looking from the track side into the main downtown area known as The Common. The station used to have two extensions, on either side of the main building, but they were lost in a fire sometime around 1917. Today the…

Onlookers do not seem too concerned about their safety as they get up close to view this devastating train wreck. According to a newspaper report in the May 7, 1936, Burlington Free Press, a brakeman was killed by escaping steam and the engineer was…

Northfield has made it to the 21st century, but so far The Common area shows no sign of being as innovative as this futuristic postcard predicts! No blimps have been launched proclaiming "New York in one hour," and there has yet to be built a subway…

The Graded School, also popularly known as the Gray Building, on the rightwas built in 1876, after a fire destroyed the previous Northfield Academy building. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988 and continued as an…

George Gilbert and family in his horse-drawn wagon behind Hunt Gilberts home on the Dorset (Vt) West Road.

Mt. Aeolus and Owl's Head, with view of quarries, corn shocks and the corner of a summer tent beside the Dorset (Vt.) West Road

Intersection of Church Street and Route 30, looking east, Dorset Vt. Also visible are Armstrong's General Store and The Pinnacle.

Stone wall, corn shocks and pumpkins in foreground, with Saddleback and Jackson Peak in the background. Looking east from Dorset (Vt.) West Road.

Maple Hill in background, chickens and chicken coops in field, along the Dorset (Vt.) West Road at Hunt Gilbert's poultry farm

Ruth Blood delivers bottled milk to an unidentified woman standing on porch of current 76 Old Route 5, September 1920. Dahlias are planted by porch of house.

Two men working on sidewalk at current 71 Main Street, May 1916.

Two men filling spraying apparatus on wagon pulled by two horses from barrels on stand, August 27, 1929.