Norwich Historical Society 277 Main Street, Norwich, VT 05055

General Subject Vertical Files Finding Aid

Location: Office Filing Cabinets

Scope and Content

This collection is comprised of a wide variety of pamphlets, documents, and correspondence relating to Norwich, . There are original documents as well as photocopies of newspaper articles, pamphlets, menus and other ephemera.

Arrangement

Subjects arranged alphabetically, however there are a number of subjects that are filed under “Norwich—subject.” If you are looking for a particular subject, it might work well to use Ctrl-F to search this finding aid. The materials are stored randomly within the folders.

File Cabinet Drawer Lists

Four Drawer Cabinet – Drawer 1 Subject Files A-D

Abenaki Indians Acorn Act 60 Norwich 2003 Act 144 Admotec of Norwich Aging in Place Agway Energy Products Aids Memorial Allechante’s Altow Ski Area – Norwich Cemetery Hill American Indians American Legion American Literary Scientific + Norwich + Middletown, Military Academy (Partridge, Norwich University) American Red Cross Andrea Salon, Inc. Anti-Thief, Anti-Trespassing Societies 1780-1880 Appalachian Trail Archaeology, See Lewiston and Marion Cross School Architects, Norwich Artists (Local) Audio Video Advisors Au Pair Authors, Local Ballard Trail Bandstand Baptist Society Bark In The Park, 2004 Barrett Meadow Oven Bayley-Hazen Military Road Beaver Meadow Beaver Meadow Bed & Breakfast Bike Hub Birds Bel Cano Singers Blacksmith Shops Blanchard & Blanchard Bomhower’s Oil Service Bradley Hill Road Bradley – Jesse Whitefield, Ethel, Warren, William Brick House Pacts Group Bridge To Peace Bus Tours, ’90, ’91, ‘93 Businesses – Norwich Cahoon Seed Sower CATV C-B Oil Company Homestead CCC – Civilian Conservation Corp Candle Glow Tea House (See Hatch House File) Carpenter & Main “La Poule A Dents” Carpet King & Tile Casual Crossing Restaurant re. Linda Cook Cemeteries – Norwich & VOCA Cemetery, Waterman Hill, Stones, Bartlett, Gagne & Wright Census Information Census – 1771 Census – 1790 Census – 1800 Census – 1810 Census – 1820 Census – 1830 Census – 1840 Census – 1850 Census – 1880 See middle photo files Census – 1890 Census Information Centerra Business Park Charter Checklist – 1890 Child Care Center Childrens Books Christmas Cards “Christmas In October” Christmas-Norwich Churches - Norwich Civil Defense “Civil War” Ninth Regiment Vermont Infantry Civil War 1 Civil War 2 Civilian Conservation Camp Colburn’s Cornet Band (Union ) 1872-1884 Colton Center Community Organizations Norwich Concord String Quartet River / Bridges, Ferries, Log Drives & Watershed Cookbooks Copper Company “Copyrights” Core Value Software Covered Bridges Country Colors (Painters) Cub Scouts CV Properties Dairying & Farming Dan & Whit’s General Store Dartmouth College Dartmouth at Moosilaukee DHMC’s Moore – 1991 Dog Run Dog “Domestic Goddess” owner: Jennifer Wlodarezky Design – Build Studio Dream & Do Farm Dresden, Vermont

Four Drawer Cabinet – Drawer 2, Subject E - Northern

Eastern Vermont Rivers and Byways (EACC) Education, Admissions & Career Consulting Emerson Houses Emerson Converse House (Main St) [Built by Elihu Emerson 1820) See also Norwich Craft Shop (Thomas Emerson House) Enertech Corp Enfield, NH Enfield Historical Society Expo – Vermont History Fairbanks – “Scales” Fairlee Family Place Family Rituals Female Cent Society – Norwich The “Feminine Tone” Singing Group Fencing Ferry (Ferries) See also, & Connecticut River Bridges FIFE – Fairness In Funding Education “Fifth Season” Fletcher Freeman Corp Floods Foggs Hardware Ford Sayre Ski Council 1949-1952 ie. Children’s Ski Council, Community Junior Ski Council Foreign Laborers Fountain Connuse / Morrill, Aldrich, Purcell, Mannix Fund America Franklin Seminary of Literature and Science Games Gay Rights Gazeteer of Vermont – 1824, Pages from Zodork Thompson Geneological Research Info General List Gile Mountain See Also Norwich Development Association Gill Store Girl Scouts Global Rescue Globes (James Wilson) Good Days, Bad Days Good Neighbors Club Goodrich Four Corners Gove Hill Grafton, NH Grand List – 1887?, 1954, 1967, 1974 Grand List – 1822 Grange Norwich Green Mt Morris Dancers Green Mountaineer – VHS Publication Hallsville re. Union Village and Lock’s Mills Hanover NH Hanover High School Hanover Joigny Hanover / Norwich Community Band & Brass Ensemble Hanover Water Supply Happy Hill Cabin Harrow (Machinery) Hartford VT Hartland VT Hatch – Peisch House Hawk Pine Hills RE Haynes & Co Haynes Garthwaite Architects

“Hearse” Cleaning & History 1994 Heritance High Horses Riding Program Hillside Ski Area See Norwich Development Assoc. Historical Societies in Vermont 2000 History of Norwich Index Horsemanship Houses – Walking Tours, General Narratives Hunting in Norwich Huntley Meadow See also Norwich Development Assoc. Hurricane – 1938 Ice Harvesting Illnesses ILEAD Internet Service Interstate/Interchange Interstate Trust Co. Island Girl Soaps by Lisa Erawoc Israeli Occupation of Palestinian Areas Jewish Community Kayaking Keeper Barn Co. Keeping Tract Killdeer Farm Kimball Union Academy King Arthur Flour Klondike Club Lamp Post Grill LaTouche Farm (see Goodrich Corners photo file) [Empty] La Tresse Salon & Day Spa The Landmark La Casetta Rossa League of Women Voters Norwich Lebanon NH Ledyard Bridge (see also Interstate/Interchange) Ledyard Bridge History & Xeroxed photographs with captions from calendar Ledyard National Bank Lewis House - Deed Research & History Lewis Lectures / Slides Lewis Property Drawings April 1914, Fire Insurance Map Lewiston I Lewiston II Lewiston Archaeology Local First Alliance Log Cabin Restaurant 1961 Logging Lone Pine Publishing Lonely Llama Music Lyman Store Lyme NH Main Street Wellness Center GB Manasek Inc Maple Hill Farm & Road Maple Sugaring Maps Mapponics LLC Marble Bank (Emerson House) Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital Mascoma Bank Masonic Lodge – Norwich Masonry, Ancient Craft McLaughry Real Estate Massage (Parlors) Measurements Medicine Merrill Store – Olds Store Miller & Candon Law Firm Mills (grist, etc.) Milt Frye Nature Trail Mines (copper) Monaco’s Pizza, Inc. Montshire Museum, Folder 1 Montshire Museum, Folder 2 Montshire Skating Club – Norwich Moors Indian School Moping Owl Corp Mormons (Joseph Smith et al) Morrill Paint Shop Muddy Hands Pottery Munroe, President James Music New Boston New England Historical & Genealogical Register Index v. 51-102 New England History New England Telephone and Telegraph Company History Nomad Communications Nomad Press Norford Lake Club Northeast Corner Farm Northern Stage

Four Drawer Cabinet – Drawer 3, Subject NORWICH A – H

Norwich VT State Archives Catalogue Norwich Academy Norwich Affordable Housing Norwich Appraisals – Real Estate Norwich Arts Association 1973 Norwich Aquaduct Co. Norwich Athletes – also check family files Norwich Authors Norwich Baking Oven Norwich Bandstand Norwich YMCA & YMCA Band (and Bandstand) Norwich Band & Music Norwich B&B, Bradley Hill Road (Bob Bodleski & Brita Reed) Norwich Bicentennial 1961 Norwich Bicentennial (Folder 2) 1961 Norwich – VT Bicentennial Tour 1991 Bicentennial, 1976 Vermont Norwich Board of Civil Authority Norwich Boarding House, see also Aldrich House, Norwich University, Wheaton Family File Norwich Bookstore 2003-2004 & Beyond Norwich Boy Scouts Norwich Brickyard 1805-1810 Norwich Bridges Norwich Brownies Norwich Business -- Also see individual files for some of the larger or more permanent ones Norwich Business Council Norwich Café Norwich Camp Fire Girls Norwich Canning Co Norwich Car Store Norwich Cash Market (Ballam & Aulis) Norwich Center Norwich Cemeteries Norwich Children’s Exchange Norwich Christmas Pageant The Norwich Committee on Fairness in Funding Education Common Schools Norwich 1840-1860 Norwich Community Profile II Norwich Hanover Community Center Norwich Congregational Church Norwich & Hartford Railroad Forwarding Co Norwich Institute Norwich & West Hartford Telephone Co Norwich Pageant Christmas Norwich CT Norwich – Connecticut River Norwich Conservation Commission Norwich Cookbooks & Recipes Gifts of Carolyn Aldrich Purcell 11-2003 Co-Op Gardens Norwich Classical & English Boarding School Norwich Corridor & Gateway Project Norwich Craft Shop / Toybrary Norwich Day Care Center Norwich DAMS Norwich Democratic Committee Norwich Development Association See also Norwich Swimming Pool Norwich Dramatic Club Norwich & Development Review Board Norwich Education Fund Norwich Electric Norwich Energy Committee & EAPC Norwich, England Norwich Fair – 1970’s Norwich Fair – 1980’s Norwich Fair – 1990’s Norwich Fair – Newspaper Clippings Plus Norwich Fair – 1960’s Norwich Fair 1940’s – 1950’s Norwich Farmer’s Market Norwich Farming Norwich Female Abolition Society Norwich Female Seminary Norwich Fire Dept./Company & Fires in Norwich & Fast Squad Norwich Fire District Norwich Fish & Game Club Norwich Flower Shop Norwich Full Gospel Church Norwich Fur Farm Norwich Gardeners Norwich Green Norwich Hannukah 2002 Norwich Happenings Norwich Highway Superintendent Norwich History – Marjorie Yule Butler Notes Norwich - Historic Sites and Structures Survey Norwich Historical Society Norwich Historical Society – 1950’s HG Articles

Four Drawer Cabinet – Drawer 4, Subject Norwich H - R

Norwich Historical Society – Art Auction 7/11/04 Norwich Historical Society Calendars Norwich Historical Society 2003 Norwich Historical Society Clippings 2009 Norwich Historical Society Lewis House – 2003 Norwich Historic District 1990 Norwich Geneology Norwich – History Book, A History of Norwich VT (1905) See History of Norwich Norwich History – Student Papers Light Opera of Norwich Goddard/Partridge Papers at Raunage Norwich History – Jim Huntley Recollections – Letters “Norwich As I Saw It” Norwich History Norwich History – Inquiries Norwich History – Chronology Norwich History – People Norwich History -- Preservation Norwich History – Telephone Directories Norwich Home Demonstration Club Norwich Homeland Security Norwich Housing Corp Norwich Houses General Norwich Improvement Society Norwich Inn 1 of 2 Norwich Inn 2 of 2 Norwich Interfaith Council Norwich Inventory of Scenic Resources 2000 Norwich Jail Norwich Jug Store Norwich Kindergarten Association Norwich Land Transfers Norwich League of Women Voters Norwich Learning Center Norwich Lions Club – Also: Memory Tree 2002 Norwich Lions Club 1954 – Norwich Listers Norwich Listserve Norwich Little League Norwich Locatable Address List by Road c. 2006 Norwich Manufacturing Co. Norwich Maps Norwich Massage Center Norwich Memorial Day Parade Norwich Memorial Triangle Norwich Midgets Baseball Norwich Militia Norwich Mines Norwich Misc. Norwich, Municipal Norwich Naprapathic Massage Center Newspapers -xeroxes of parts of 18th C. Hanover Newspapers Newspapers- Norwich 1790’s Newspaper Articles Newspaper -Granite Free Press 1869-1879 Newspaper – The Gazette 1979-1980, Town Articles by Barbara Tierney Newspaper -- Hanover Gazette Clippings 1880’s Norwich Newspaper Clippings Norwich 1978 Norwich 1979 Newspapers – Norwich (Misc. copies) Norwich Observatory Towers – WWII Norwich Pagents (Christmas or Community Pagent) Norwich Partners LLC Norwich Pen Pal Club Norwich, Photos Fellows Collection Valley News 1961 Norwich 1980 Norwich 1981 Norwich 1982 Norwich 1983 Norwich 1984 Norwich 1990’s – Misc. Newspaper Clippings Norwich 2000 Norwich & Citizens In The News – 2001 Norwich & Norwich Residents In The News 2002-2003 Norwich: Neighbor To Neighbor Survey Norwich Notes Norwich Old Home Days or Week Norwich – Overseer of the Poor, Warnings Out Norwich Parking Ordinance Norwich Town Plan Draft 8-2007 Norwich Planning Commission Norwich Planning Commission (2) Norwich Police Department Norwich Political Parties Norwich Pool, See also Norwich Swimming Pool, Norwich Development Assoc. Norwich Post Office Norwich Public Library Norwich Racquet Club Norwich 1967 Real Estate & Appraisals Norwich Real Estate – also see Norwich Appraisals Norwich Recreation Council (originally N. Recreation & Conservation Council) Norwich Recycling Norwich Red Cross Norwich Register of Historic Places Norwich Residents in Valley News Photographs Norwich Restaurants Norwich Rifle Club Norwich Roads & Zipper Valley Roads

Two-Drawer Filing Cabinet, Drawer 1, Norwich S - U

Norwich Schools – Miscellaneous Information Norwich School Directors’ Report Norwich Village School – 1898-1973, District 1 Norwich Schools – District 1 Norwich Schools – District 2 Norwich Schools – District 3 (Beaver Meadow) Norwich Schools – District 4 (Meeting House Hill) Norwich Schools – District 5 (Root District) Norwich Schools – District 6 (Baker School) Norwich Schools – District 7 (Pompy) Norwich Schools – District 8 (Union Village) Norwich Schools – District 9 (New Boston) Norwich Schools – District 11 (Turnpike) Norwich Schools – District 12 (Brown School House) Norwich Schools – Districts 13-20 Norwich School – Marion Cross School Norwich Elementary School (Marion Cross) Historical Archeological Site and Other Information Norwich School, 2001: Susan Nellen, 3rd Grade Letters Norwich School, Letters 1998, 2005, 2009 Marion Cross School PTA “Spelling Bee” Started 2006 Marion Cross Thank You Letters “A Little Girl’s Diary” November 2004 The Norwich School News Norwich – School Study Norwich – Dresden School District 2002 Norwich – Dresden District Dresden School – File 2 Dresden District – Historical Norwich/Hanover Schools – SAU 70 Norwich High School Norwich Schools - Hanover High Norwich Schools – 2002 Norwich Senior Housing Norwich Select Board Issues and People Norwich Sestercentennial 250 years in 2011 [should be sesquicentennial] Norwich Seven Nations House (Mechanic Street) Norwich - Sewer Norwich – Skating On The Green (2003) Norwich Solar Plan Norwich Special Places Norwich Special Events Committee Norwich Sports – 2003-2004 Norwich Square Norwich State or Home Guard Stagecoach Stops – Norwich Town of Norwich – Strategic Plan (2007-2008) Norwich Superior Video Store Norwich Swimming Pool See also: Norwich Development Assoc. Norwich Tax, Plan, Sales, etc. Norwich Technologies Norwich Teen Town, 1940’s Norwich Times Norwich, Town of (Gifts) Norwich Town Clerk Norwich Town Manager Norwich Town Meeting Norwich Town Officers Norwich Town Plan (1995) Norwich Town Records Norwich Town Seal Norwich Trails Norwich Transfer Station Norwich Tree Warden Norwich Union Cemetery Assoc. Norwich History of Norwich Union Village Norwich Verizon Tower Norwich University – Misc. Norwich University – History Thayer v Partridge Norwich University – Music, Printed Material, Facsimiles, Manuscript Norwich University Record, Fall 2002 Homecoming History Norwich University – Anti-Terrorism Ctr. Norwich University – Marches Norwich University – Newspaper Articles Norwich University – Norwich Norwich University – The Citizen Soldier Norwich University - Northfield Norwich University Day 1961

Two Drawer Filing Cabinet, Drawer 2, Subject Norwich V – Z

Norwich Vigil Norwich Village Designation Norwich War Memorial Norwich Water Supply Co. I of III Norwich Water Supply Co. II of III Norwich Water Supply Co. III of III Norwich and West Hartford Telephone Co. Norwich Willow School Norwich Wine and Spirits Norwich Women’s Club Norwich Women’s Club (2) Norwich Youth Board Norwich Youth In News Norwich Fire District – Zoning Material Fire District & Zoning Norwich Zoning Ordinance & Issues The Nugget Olcott-Johnson House Olds House (Main Street) Olympics (check under skiing also) Ompompanoosuc Parish Opera North Oral Histories Orford, NH Paladin Resources, LLC Partridge House Patents Pattersonville Chair Co. Pattersonville Chair Co. Catalogues Patterson Chair Company / Pattersonville III Peace Pension Lists Pest House Pets: Animal Care, etc. Philips Consulting Co. Photographs – Misc. Pine Tree Press Pink Alligator Plainfield, NH Police Reports Political Pix “Cartoons for Thoughtful People” Pompanoosuc 1/2 Pompanoosuc 2/2 Pompanoosuc Fair (Leisure, Pageants & Plays, Fair/Parade/Old Home Day, Bands/Clubs, Casual Outings Pompanoosuc Creamery Co. Pompanoosuc Valley “United Churchman” 1926 Pompy Jersey Farm Preservation Trust of Vermont Push Open Doors T 587 Book of Records, Proprietors of Norwich Porter, G.R. Inc. Quilting Railroads Rate Bill – 1790 Red Clover Data Management Remax Real Estate Agency Results Marketing/Communications Firm/ ie “Norwich Times Revels North Revere Bell (Norwich Congregational Church) Revolutionary War Ed Worth’s Road Research Packet Rollie’s Dine and Dance Root District Root District, Riding Club, School, News Royalton, VT Rural Free Delivery Rutland, VT Shopping International The Skating Club at Dartmouth St. Barnabas St. Barnabas II St. Barnabas III St. Barnabas Church Cont’d St. Barnabas Church Cont’d (2) St. Barnabas Church Cont’d (3) St. Francis of Assisi Chapel Same-Sex Partnerships Sargent Coal Co., Lewiston VT Saw Mills Sesquiscentennial (2011) Serg Shakers Sharon VT Sheep (Norwich related) Shopping International Skiing Small Gallery Smith & Vansant Architects Snow Rolling Soap Making Social Life Committee Solar Southworth’s Garage Spanish Influenza, 1918 The Spark Plugs Special Olympics Spectacles – Spectacle Makers Stage Coaches Sample’s Hill Ski Jump Star Lake Homes & Farm Steve’s Puzzles Stevenson Northland, Inc. Stone Walls Stoughton House built by Thomas Emerson Stoves, Kerosene, 2001 Strafford, VT Sugaring Summer Superior Video Systems Plus Computer ie. Jake Blum (Norwich) T&M Consultants Theatre Curtains Therapeutic Massage Services Theta Chi Fraternity The Tea Kettle (formerly “Ye Candle Glow” ie. Hatch, Peisch House) Thetford, VT The J List Tools Town Eating Day Town Farm Toybrary Toys Norwich Tracy Hall Transportation Traverse Tropical Storm Irene, August 28, 2011 Tubestock Turnpike 4 Corners & Turnpike Road (by Jim Huntley) Twin Pines Housing Trust UK Architects Underground Railroad Union Village Band Union Village Hotel Union Village Library (1934) History Union Village VT and Union Village Dam Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Upper Valley United Methodist Church – Union Village United Stated Bicentennial 1976 University Grange US History Upper Valley Community - Grange, University Grange Upper Loveland Puppets Upper Valley Building Units Upper Valley Community Band Upper Valley Events Center Upper Valley Fencing Club Upper Valley History Upper Valley History – Middle Grants Bicentennial 1961 Upper Valley Council Upper Valley Land Trust CVP See also Russell, E. Upper Valley Learning Center Upper Valley Life Magazine Upper Valley Music Center Upper Valley Peace and Justice Group Upper Valley Playground Committee Upper Valley Rowing Foundation Upper Valley Teacher Institute Upper Valley Trails Alliance Upper Valley Transportation Management Assoc. Valentines Upper Valley Yoga Valley Chords Valley Net Valley News Valley Quest Valley Terrace Assisted Living Vermont History Van Lodostov – Circus Camp Vermont – Act 250 Vermont Agriculture (Incl. NH) Vermont, Attorney Generals Office Vermont Bicentennial (1977) Vermont Bicentennial (1791-1991) Vermont Colonization Society VT Coalition of Municipalities VT Commission on Women – Women’s History Project Vermont Earth Institute Vermont Fisheries Vermont History Expo 2002-2005 Vermont Historical Society Comments on Vermont written by Grange Member Ernest Pattrell, 1934 Vermont History Bibliographies VT History Expo - Established 2000 Vermont Inventors Vermont Lotteries Vermont Mines – see Cook Vermont Mutual Insurance Fire Company Vermont Railroads Vermont Ski Museum Vermont State Guard Vermont State House History Vermont Symphony Orchestra, Upper Valley Students Verizon Tree Vietnam Veterans Memorial Monument Vital Communities – Valley Quest Vreeland Clinic Also: Grand T Clinic Wall Stenciling Warnings Out – Treatment of the Poor Wheelock Wright Hay Case Wheldon House (Hopson Rd) Wild Flowers Wilder VT, Wilder Dams Willey Hill Road Willow School Windsor, VT Windsor County Grammar School Winter Woodstock, VT World War Mothers of New England, Norwich Chapter Women’s Literary Club WW I&II WCTU Norwich Worthington/Ziegel Architects World War I & II - The Churches United Servicemen’s Committee, Nor. 1945 – XRAY YMCA Yummy Yammy WMA – Misc. File Filing In Progress Misc. Letters and Information [3 files not labeled] ZuZu’s