stories & articles
WRITE YOUR STORY
We welcome your personal Bridgewater stories and tales, to be included in our archive with the hopes of future publication. These may include individual stories passed down from family, friends and past generations or stories of you and your memories of Bridgewater. Whenever possible please include photographs. Also include your name and contact information.
Submit your story by:
- Email to: [email protected]
- Mail to:
Bridgewater Historical Society
PO Box 98
Bridgewater, Vermont 05034
To read some of our stories click the links below:
Sugarhouse on the Hill
By Judith Stearns When our family bought the Thomas Lamb/Ed Heselton House on the top of Bridgewater Hill in 1972 we got busy very quickly restoring it board by board. Putting in electricity, water system and furnace, replacing part of the cellar wall, and creating a...
The Porch Roof Approach to Trout Fishing
By Tom Adams One Friday evening in April, about 1965, a dozen or so men in their mid-twenties arrived in Bridgewater in search of non-resident fishing licenses. They were a good part of a group known as the Jolly Boys, a loose club formed of male members of the...
Ruth Needham and CCC Dog
By Royal Houghton Nov 4, 2013 I read on your Bridgewater Historical Society about the up coming program on the CCC. I might have something of interest to add involving Ruth Houghton Needham. One of the camp’s top officers lived in Bridgewater Corners by the name...
Bridgewater Congregational Church
THE BRIDGEWATER CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH/UNITED CHURCH OF CHRISTHISTORY FROM 1793 TO PRESENT January 1, 1793 marks the official date of the beginning of the Congregational Society in Bridgewater. Services were held in the North Bridgewater Schoolhouse. “The North...