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This colorized real photo postcard shows the railroad Arch Bridge, the vehicle Iron Bridge, and the old Paine Mill log dam on the Dog River. The Arch Bridge was destroyed in the 1927 Vermont Flood.

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…

This is actually the Second Northfield House, as the first one, built by Gov. Charles Paine (1841-42) in 1837, was destroyed by fire in 1879. This new Northfield House was built in 1880 and was both a hotel and boardinghouse, but it, too, was…

In 1936, Northfield resident Cordelia DeLary purchased the former Shuttleworth House on Vine Street for the purpose of turning it into a local hospital. A great deal of fundraising was set in motion, as well as major structural changes made to the…

The spectacular 1927 flood in Vermont has been documented with hundreds of photos showing the devastation of towns throughout the state. Northfield has its own set of images of the destruction of homes and businesses in town. However, this particular…

Erected around 1875, this brick woolen mill replaced a previous structure that had burned in 1873. The original builder and owner was Joseph Gould, who sold the woolen mill to Charles M. Davis in 1900. The quality of the wool was so high that in 1928…

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…