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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…

The broad view of the Norwich University Cavalry Drill, for its Centennial celebration, shows the formation of cadets and horses on the Upper Parade Grounds of the campus. Horses were an active part of the university in the first part of the 20th…

This large Victorian residence, with an equally elaborate carriage house, was built by Joseph Gould (1809-1876), who owned a woolen mill in Northfield Falls, which he purchased in 1857. Behind the house, connected by a covered bridge of lattice work,…

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…

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.

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…

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…

This artistic winter scene was taken by Harriet B. Ellis, who, with her husband Benjamin, lived in Roxbury, Vermont. According to an article in the Dog River Crier, Harriet was selling her postcards at stores in Northfield in 1979, all of local…

This color postcard which appears to be part photograph-part hand drawing and hand-tinted, shows the stateliness of the elms that graced this north-south street in Northfield that runs parallel to Main Street. Alas, all the elms are gone, however a…

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…

A bucolic scene, showing a bridge over the Dog River, which connects the village downtown area to Water Street and other homes on the west side of town. Peaceful now, the Dog River wreaked havoc and destruction in both the November flood of 1927 and…

This color postcard provides a good bird's-eye-view of Northfields business district and Common, including the Civil War Monument. The train station (now a bank) can be seen behind the Common, and the bandstand to the left of the Common. And if you…