What’s in the Norwich Historical Society’s collections? Over the years, the Norwich Historical Society has amassed a large number of articles relating to Norwich’s past, all of which were donated [...]
Finding aids are descriptive inventories or indexes that provide access to the unpublished materials in the Norwich Historical Society’s archives. If you are researching a family from Norwich, there could [...]
2020 E-News Series on Researching your House: Learning to Look at Architecture Using the National Register to find your house history Using the Census to Dig Deeper If [...]
Hebard House, Willey Hill Road, Norwich, VT Collection of Jane Ackerman by Jane Benson Ackerman tea-colored photograph: small yard, two folk she stout, he bent clapboard cape, shutters skewed [...]
by Zara Sarah Drew Reeves Jay and Deb Van Arman Photograph by Chad Finer, 2012 “How long is this kid going to last,” uncles speculated, [...]
by Phyllis B. Katz Pressed Flower Scrapbook, Norwich, VT Written words were in my blood. An ardent abolitionist, my grandfather gave slaves voice, wrote poems [...]
Spun Flax, Norwich, VT, 1862 by Lisa Furmanski ‘Twas the sleep of butter and lard, one hundred winters for rendering the dead things, mittens and mince. Stolid [...]
by Giavanna Munafo Doll, labeled "Rose Jean" Date unknown It’s teatime and all the dolls are at the table. Listen. It’s that simple. — Anne [...]
by Ivy Schweitzer Sampler by Amanda Russell, ca. 1798 Happy the maid Whose artless mind in works so innocent can find amusement and delight. At [...]
by Florence Flogelin J.W. Metcalf, Selected Sentences ca. 1871 Orthophony; or The Cultivation of the Voice in Elocution William Russell 39th edition, 1871 [...]