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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…