HSWC News & Events

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

Don’t cook tonight!  Join us at the 99 Restaurant on Putney Road in Brattleboro between 5 – 9 PM, present your Historical Society coupon to your server and 15% of what you spend will be donated to the Historical Society of Windham County’s Newfane Railroad Station restoration project.  It’s as easy as that!  Coupons will be available […]

Friday, August 28, 2015.  NewBrook Fire Station,  Route 30, Newfane. 5:30  Annual Meeting, 6:00  Pot-Luck, 7:00 Storytelling. All are welcome to the Historical Society of Windham County’s Annual Meeting on Friday, August 28 at the NewBrook Fire Station (Route 30, Newfane). The meeting at 5:30 PM (open to any interested members of the public as […]

Saturday, August 22, 9:00 to 4:00 Fifth Biennial Windham County History Fair Historic Newfane Common Route 30, Newfane Step back in time at the Fifth Biennial Windham County History Fair on Saturday, August 22nd from 9:00 to 4:00. Held on the Historic Newfane Common (Route 30, Newfane), the Fair is a festival of vintage exhibits, […]

Date: Thursday, June 18, Time: 7:00 p.m. The View from Table Rock – a film and presentation.  Place:  Williamsville Hall in Williamsville. Co-sponsored by the Historical Society of Windham County and the Williamsville Hall Committee. Guided by two antique Bird’s Eye View lithographs depicting Bellows Falls in the 1800s, videographer Lyle Sorensen explores the past and […]

Date: Thursday, April 23.  Time: 7:00p.m.  Place: Williamsville Hall, Williamsville. “Remembering: Days Gone By Through the Lens of Porter Thayer” Photographs and oral histories are windows into the past before motion pictures. Newfane resident, orchardist, and photographer Porter Thayer captured local life in Windham County one hundred years ago, and his collection has been well preserved. […]

Date: Sunday, March 29.  Time: 4:00 – 6:00 Place: NewBrook Firehouse, VT Route 30, Newfane. You won’t have to ride the 36 Miles of Trouble to sample homemade soups from all the train stops up the West River Valley Railroad line. They are all coming to you: The Whetsone Station in Brattleboro, The Top of the […]