HSWC News & Events

Location: The Brattleboro History Center, Main Street, Brattleboro.   In 2015, underwater explorer and shipwreck diver Annette Spaulding rediscovered one of two petroglyphs that have been submerged in the Connecticut River ever since the creation of the Vernon Dam over 100 years ago.  Spaulding is the first to locate the petroglyphs which were first observed […]

Location: Guilford Welcome Center Please help our annual fund raiser for the Historical Society’s County Museum by donating baked items for the Welcome Center Coffee Break.   Call the Historical Society (365-4148) for details.

All are welcome to an evening of great food and great stories. Location: NewBrook Fire Station, Route 30, Newfane. 5:30  Annual Meeting of the Historical Society of Windham County 6:00  Pot-Luck — Bring a dish to share.  Drinks provided. 7:00  Program of Story-telling.  Four residents of Windham County will share their stories of “days gone by” […]

Location:  Townshend Town Hall, Route 30. Over the years there have been many farms and businesses that bottled fluid milk for consumers in Windham County and beyond. Neil Pelsue, a former UVM milk marketing economist, will use some of the milk bottles from his collection to tell where and how some of these bottlers served […]

Sponsored by the West River Valley American Legion Post #16 & Auxiliary, the Parade steps off at 10:00 a.m., followed by the Memorial Day ceremony on Newfane Common in front of the County Court House.  In addition to the annual Memorial Day ceremony, the 100th anniversary of the dedication of the Civil War Monument will […]

Location: NewBrook Fire Station, Route 30, Newfane You won’t have to ride the West River Railroad’s “36 Miles of Trouble” to enjoy a variety of soups from Brattleboro to South Londonderry. Ten restaurants from the 10 depot towns along the old West River Railroad are bringing them to you. Soup, bread and fixings will be […]

The Irish “Wave” in the Green Mountains Location: Moore Free Library Gallery, 23 West Street, Newfane Beginning in the late 1840s and lasting through the 1860s, thousands of Irish immigrants, escaping the potato famine in their homeland, settled in Vermont. They arrived in the Green Mountain State just as Vermont was undergoing a mini industrial […]

Put on Your Dancing Shoes!  Alan Bills and Friends Square Dance Benefit.  Dover Town Hall, Dover Common.   Put on your dancing shoes and help restore the Newfane Railroad Station!  Alan Bills and his friends will play and call the music, the Historical Society will provide light refreshments.  The $5.00 donation for admission will help […]

American Legion Post #5, Brattleboro. The 25th Annual Convention of the Vermont Railway Historical Society will be held in Brattleboro this year. A presentation on the Historical Society’s Newfane Railroad Station’s restoration project is scheduled for 11:20 a.m.   A full schedule of the weekend’s Convention is available on the Central Vermont Railway Historical Society’s […]

Guilford Welcome Center Donations of baked goods would be welcomed for this annual fund raiser of the Historical Society.   If you’re willing to donate, contact:  info@historicalsocietyofwindhamcounty.org