Putney Historical Society Newsletters
Summer 2023 Newsletter
Fall 2022 Newsletter
- The Washburns in Putney, Chapter 2
- The Allard Collection
- Behind the Scenes at the Putney Historical Society
- Remembering Elka Schumann
- Snapshots in Time
- Details of Putney, a closer look at some historic photographs
- The Fortnightly Club, 1902-2021, Putney’s longest-running social club
- The Washburns in Putney, Chapter 1 of the history of this extraordinary family
- Location Identification Needed – can you help?
- Share Your COVID story
Summer 2021 Newsletter (webpage) (PDF)
- The Blood Farm on West Hill
- Putney and the Pandemics
- Snapshot in Time
- Location IDs Needed
- Mystery Photos
- Share your COVID Story!
- Our Local Suffragists
- Glass Negative Project Update
- Mystery Photo
- Negotiating for A New Home for the PHS Collections
- The Life of an East Putney Farmhouse
- Putney School Social Documentary Class
- Book Reviews
- Mystery Photo
- Zsolt Takacs’s Putney Story
- Putney Nostalgia
- Transfer of Ownership of 15 Kimball Hill
- Mystery Photo
- 18 photos of the Putney General Store, from 1890, through two fires, reconstruction and the grand re-opening in May 2017.
- A Glimpse Through the Mists of Time, a brief history of the Kathan/Campbell/Noyes House
- Find Your House in a map from 1869 and a photo from 1899
- An update on the Capital Campaign for the renovation and restoration of Next Stage / 15 Kimball Hill
- General Store to add pharmacy and deli
- An update on the Capital Campaign for the renovation and restoration of Next Stage / 15 Kimball Hill
- Next Stage events
- Apron Theater News
- Next Stage Arts forms a Brain Trust
- Explanation of the relationship between the Putney Historical Society and Next Stage Arts
- Some things need fixing at 15 Kimball Hill
- Putney Stories: Sheriff Bill Graham
- Subject Files – Now organized and electronically listed
- Obsidian Point found to be per-European and from the Double H Site
- The East Putney Community Club and Pierce’s Hall
- Middle School Students Research Putney Civil War Veterans
- Geneological Research Supported by the PHS
- A Conversation with Olive Frost, including memories of events at Pierce’s Hall
- George Houghton: Civil War Photographers from Putney
- Obsidian Point Reportedly Found Along the Connecticut River
- Guilford Central School Students Digitize Historical Photos
- Update on the Thwing Mill Site
- Electronic Archiving
- Historic Stone found in wall off Old Depot Road
- History of the Putney Community Center
- VT Public Television’s Documentary on Senator Aiken
- Historical photos of Senator Aiken, the Community Center, Putney Central School and more
- History of the Putney Fire Department
- Remembering Elaine Dixson
- PHS Searches for a new home
- 2003 Annual Meeting Quips and Stories
- Theater Curtains Restoration
- United Church Records on microfilm for VT Genealogy Society
Fall 2003 Special Edition
- Loads of photos and details about Putney’s 250 year celebration.
Winter 2002-2003 Newsletter
- Planning for Putney’s 250 year celebration
- Divers discover 1812 “Elephant Bridge”
- History Workshop
- History of the Putney Diner
- A Sound Gift: Recordings of interviews from the past 50 years
- The Putney Quest: a treasure hunt and a treasure map
- Bicentennial celebration planning begins
- Putney Veteran’s Memorial Project
- Mrs Ruth Smith Abjures Women’s Clubs
- Uncalled for Letters
“Eph. Higgins, our accomodating P.M. informs us that the following letters remain at the P.O. uncalled for: marcus Rawlins, Shedrach Dobbs, Sarah Hawkins, Rufe Sprowl
- “By looking over the Bugle files, we find that Shedrach Dobbs leeft Bingville 19 years ago on the run to escape arrest after his wide heard that she wasn’t the only wife Shed had.
- Mark Rollins has been dead only 4 yeers, but that’s almost as bad as if he had been dead longer. “
- View the newsletter to see what happened to Sarah Hawkins and Rufe Sprowl
- Putney Historical Society may take on the historic Thwing Mill
- The Great River, Our Original Hightway, by Laurel Ellis
- History of the Thwing Grist Mill
- Grist Mill and land donated to Putney Historical Society
- Membership Report
- Gift from the Golden Rule Lodge
- “Old News” – an excerpt from the “Report of the Superintendent 1899”
- Excerpts from the Town Reports for 1899, 1909, 1948
- “Reasons Why Women Should Not Vote” from the Vermont Phoenix April 8, 1870
- A Brief History of the Corner Store, By Laurel Ellis
Fall 2000 Newsletter
- A cultural history of Putney’s ridgelines
- Census year population from 1791 – 2000
- An excerpt from a 1936 study of the town shows the town’s thinking on the need for sidewalks and a town forest, the going price for milk, hay, apples, tobacco and popcorn.
- Dwight Smith, A Truly Colorful Putney Character
- Observations on Former Location of County Road Through Putney Village Prior to 1800