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Bridgewater, VT and the Revolutionary War
Early History of Bridgewater, Vermont
Bridgewater is a small village situated in Windsor County. Bridgewater Village, Bridgewater Corners, West Bridgewater, and Bridgewater Center (formerly called Briggs) are hamlets of Bridgewater. All of the hamlets and village, except the Center, are located...
History of the Bridgewater Mill
The Bridgewater Woods Are Afire
By Norm Williams June 1956
Davis/Olmstead Store
Davis/Olmstead Store with W.A. Perkins Cole 8 in front After a year or two Mr. Stillwell sold to Mrs. E. Warren who soon sold it to E. A. Davis. Erwin Arzo Davis came from Royalton and taught school in Bridgewater Village in 1883, married Mabel Wilson in 1886 and went...
Bridgewater Volunteer Fire Department
By Walter Houghton Bridgewater Baseball Team on the Fire Truck
My Uncle Royal Houghton
By Walter Houghton A person who was my hero and I always looked up to was my Uncle Royal. When the war ended the most memorable thing for me was going to White River Junction with my grandparents to meet his train. I still remember that old Boston & Maine...
Marshmallow Can
By Karole A. Thompson Messier My mother, Ruhie Carpenter Thompson sold the Thompson Tavern (now Doyle Apartments) to Percy Solger. At the request of Mr. Robert Sharpe, my mother went to manage the Bridgewater Drug Store in the early 1940s where she remained for nine...
Military Funeral
World War II Homecoming 1946 By Royal Houghton After World War II in 1946, Bridgewater’s Geno-Roberson American Legion post was asked to do a military funeral for a boy killed in the war in Europe. He came from Plymouth VT. ( I can't remember the soldiers name)...
Dynamite Cave
By Charles Astbury This story happened in the late 1940s. I’m some ten years old, born on a Bridgewater, side hill, one horse farm which could no longer support a family. My father worked on a nearby operating dairy farm and also worked our smaller farm to feed...