Preserving "the best-known small town in America"
Minutes, historical society issues, membership and fundraising.
The glass plate negatives produced by Adelbert Corser and Minnie Corser Thwing during the late 19th and early 20th centuries have amazing detail that is often not noticeable when looking at the image printed on a post card or even in our calendar. Geordie Heller has done a wonderful job of scanning the negatives at … Read more
Putney Fortnightly Club 1902-2021 The social club that lasted the longest in Putney was the Putney Fortnightly Club. This organization kept a regular schedule of meetings and fellowship for 119 years. We remaining eight members bid a fond farewell to our organization by spending the last of our treasury. Money went to the Putney Food … Read more
The opening chapter of a narrative by William B. Darrow tracing the story of the Putney Washburn family. The Washburn brothers were grandchildren of Asa and Sally (Upham) Washburn, early Putney settlers present for the first United States Census in 1790. For four or five generations members of the family did extraordinary things. It is … Read more
Help Us Update Putney’s History It’s now been nearly 70 years since the Fortnightly Club published a history of Putney for its Bicentennial. In 1953 there was no official way to name a location other than by the name of the property owner. As there are fewer and fewer people around who knew those residents … Read more
Amongst the hundreds of photographs in the PHS collection, taken in the late 19th- and early 20th centuries, are photos of families and friends gathered on the porches and front yards of Putney’s homes. These photos are a snapshot in time of residents, some identified and many not, throughout our community. PHS is hoping to … Read more
Across the world people have been struggling with the Covid-19 virus, living and dying with it. The age of Covid-19 has raised the question of how Putney has fared during similar crises in the past. Colonial America was rife with disease that carried off many. Although Europeans were often immune from serious symptoms of diseases … Read more
by William B Darrow Using the U.S. Census, public records, old maps, newspaper reports, and books, this paper traces the Blood family (and West Hill) history from 1782 to the early 1900s. A little over 50 years ago when I was a boy growing up on West Hill in Putney, my father took my brothers … Read more
Enjoy a springtime walk around Putney with this beautifully illustrated guide to Putney’s Pre-Civil War Architecture. The guide features 21 buildings in the downtown, Kimball Hill and Westminster Road area. The guide includes a numbered map, original drawings by local artists and a short history of each building. Historic Walking Tour Brochure.
This photo is from the Corser collection of glass plate negatives and is labeled “Will Laungo (?) House”. If you have any idea where this was/is located please Contact Us!
The 2019 annual Meeting will be held on Sunday September 8, 2019 from 2 to 4 PM at Next Stage (15 Kimball Hill). After a brief business meeting, Maryann Toffolon and Tim Ragle will lead the group on the walking tour of the village, based on the Historic Walking Tour pamphlet that the PHS recently … Read more