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...
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...
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...
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...
