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Rutland County History

 

PLEASE NOTE THIS COUNTY IS UNDER RENOVATION
Frisbie, B. (Barnes), The History of Middletown, Vermont, in Three Discourses, Delivered Before The Citizens of That Town February 7 and 21, and March 30, 1867, © 1867  266 pagesPaul, Hiland; Parks, Robert, History of Wells, Vermont, For the First Century After Its Settlement, with Biographical Sketches, © 1869, 312 pages

Peck, Simon Lewis, History of Ira Vermont, © 1926, 92 pages

Thorpe, Walter, History of Wallingford, Vermont, © 1911, 236 pages

Williams, John C., The History and Map of Danby, Vermont, © 1869, 798 pages

Wood, Grace Esther Pember, compiler, Marriages in Wells, Rutland County, Vermont, 1775-1825 [abstracted from VItal Records, v. 1, published 1949; typewritten carbon copy of p. 115-122 of the author’s History of the Town of Wells, Vermont 1955 [NOTE: I’ve not been abe to locate the author’s book on the History of the Town of Wells.  If you find this book, please send me a message. Thanks.]

HISTORY

·      Index to The Vermont Historical Gazetteer:  A Local History of All the Towns in the State, transcribed by Rod Skinner (former County Coordinator for Windham County, VTGenWeb), 2006.  The VERMONT HISTORICAL GAZETTEER is a 5 volume set of historical information, by Abby Maria Hemenway, with Volume I published in 1867, and Volume V completed in 1891 after her death.  Thank you!  Thank you! to Rod Skinner!!!

·      History of Rutland County, Vermont, Civil, Ecclesiastical, Biographical and MilitaryVol. 1, by Abby Maria Hemenway.  White River Junction, VT: 1882, 866 pages

·      History of Rutland County, Vermont, Civil, Ecclesiastical, Biographical and MilitaryVol. 2, by Abby Maria Hemenway.  White River Junction, VT: 1882, 846 pages

·      History of Rutland County, Vermont, With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers.  H. P. Smith and W. S. Rann (Editors), Syracuse, N.Y.: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1886, 950 pages

·      History of Vermont, Natural, Civil, and Statistical, in Three Parts.  By Zadock Thompson, Burlington: Chauncey Goodrich, 1842, 670 pages

·      USGenWeb Archives for Rutland County, Vermont – biographies, cemeteries, census, and more

·      Vermont’s Historic Roadside Markers

·      Lemuel Haynes (1756-1836) -” …first black in America to serve as pastor of a white congregation…Rutland’s West Parish”

·      Smalley-Davenport Shop – Thomas Davenport, 1802-1851, Inventor of the Electric Motor and Orange Alfonso Smalley (Brandon and Forestdale, VT)