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Built in 1906 at a cost of $25,000, Northfield's only public library building was named after its principle benefactor, George Washington Brown, a Northfield native who eventually became a very wealthy man as a high official of the United Shoe…

When "the boys" from Northfield who served in World War I arrived back home in 1919, the town wanted to make their homecoming memorable. Many weeks went into the planning of creating this magnificent Victory Arch, which was centered in the middle of…

Northfield Falls is a small village in the town of Northfield, and was originally named Gouldsville, after Joseph Gould who built a large woolen mill in the Falls. The large building on the left, built in 1892 and known as the Cross Block, still…

These seven young men all played basketball for Northfield High School for the academic year of 1912-1913. The photo was obviously taken in Northfield's professional photography studio, as evidenced by the painted backdrop. We are not certain who the…

This building originally housed the Vermont Hosiery & Machinery Company, where hosiery was knitted using equipment purchased from the Lasherhose Company in Bennington, Vt.. Starting in 1907, the company employed ten workers and used ten Lasher…

Camp Wihakowi for girls was started by Professor and Mrs. Arthur Winslow and Mr. & Mrs. E.W. Clark on the site of the Northfield fairgrounds in 1921. Later they moved the camp to a site near Harlow Bridge (Route 12A) and then eventually to Bull Run…

This more modern color postcard features the first covered bridge you drive through on Cox Brook Road, which wends its way over to Moretown. The bridge was built in 1872 and spans the Dog River. On the back of the postcard someone has written that a…

On December 23, 1928, a raging fire destroyed several buildings on the north side of Northfield's Common. Firefighters from Northfield and Montpelier fought the blaze in minus 10 degree temperatures. Apartments, as well as many viable businesses,…

Two Norwich University cadets guard the entrance to the campus. This entrance is an extension of Central Street, looking south to the campus. We can date the photo because to the far left is the U.S. Weather Bureau station, which was built in 1909.…

This bird's-eye-view of Northfield's Depot Square is looking to the east. Granite sheds are in the middle of the photograph, and the Universalist Church cupola is still standing, which indicates the picture was taken before 1928, when the church…

Employees of Smith, Whitcomb and Cook, a foundry in Barre that produced stonecutting tools, pose in front of the company's building. William Whitcomb, Sr., is the first person in the first row on left. The names of the other employees in the…

Employees of Smith, Whitcomb & Cook, iron founders and machinists, pose for a picture. The names of the employees are located on the back side of this image at the Vermont Historical Society.