We’ve been busy!
Phone and email inquiries to date in 2025: this list provides an idea of some of the inquiries we receive for information on the history of Putney from people locally and around the country.
- Supplied documentation of the 1977 recommendations for preservation of town records to current preservation efforts.
- Helped to review a publication on Putney historic structures.
- Accepted a small display case for use in our future space.
- Two requests for info about the Sabin family.
- Request for info on Dr. Joseph Goodhue and Dr. Nathan Smith.
- Inquiry about Arthur Huntington Holway, father of Alice Holway.
- Request for info on a school (former chicken coop) that was once located behind Lower Farm at the Putney School.
- PHS contributed to the display of Samplers at the Putney Public Library.
- Provided information on our collection for a research project developing plans for archival preservation systems.
- Provided some information on Phineas White.
- Provided information on Timothy Underwood.
- Discussed history of a parcel in Putney with a landowner.
- Helped identify an item made by Basketville, with the help of Greg Wilson.
- Provided information about Revolutionary soldier Capt. Timothy Underwood.
- Helped some Landmark students with research.
How people have help PHS
- Help with mystery photos in our collection.
- Identification of a house on Sun Hill Road.
- VHS input on renovation of second floor of Town Hall.
- Mentoring Grant from the League of Local Historical Societies & Museums (LLHSM)
- LLHSM advice on family bibles.
- Advice from VHS on obtaining accounting assistance.
- Consulted a historical archaeologist about ceramics.
- A volunteer researched Putney Revolutionary War soldiers for the PHS Newsletter.
- Help with figuring out cataloging for PHS.
- Donation of engraving of David Crawford.
- We received a collection of artifacts from an historic house in Putney.
- Received a donation of a scrapbook by a former teacher in East Putney.