Zadock Thompson was the first person to write about Vermont history and natural sciences. His books include Gazetteer of the State of Vermont (1824), History of the State of Vermont [...]

The oldest Hanover High School yearbook in our collection is Vol. II, No. 1, dated December, 1919. It includes a list of teachers and a variety of short stories, poems, [...]

Do you have boxes of your children's schoolwork? We have a big collection of John and Catherine Killoran's school work from the 1930s and 1940s including report cards, essays, and [...]

I think people in the past must have generally had a higher tolerance for cold than we might today. Imagine attending church in the unheated Norwich meetinghouse, or going to [...]

  We're cheating a bit. This little box should really be called a ballot box. We have several such boxes in our collection and they are important reminders of Norwich's [...]

This Brownie uniform was given to us by Rose Ladd Bender. It was made for her by her mother around 1941. Rose recalls: "In 1941 when I was about 6 [...]

This "Indian Tank" once belonged to the Norwich Fire Department. It could be worn as a backpack and used out in the field.  The 5-gallon tank of water is connected [...]

Emeline Gilkey crafted this small (7.5” x 8”) sampler in 1823 at the age of ten. Samplers were educational tools, much like horn books or slates, used to develop a [...]

This hay rake might be my favorite artifact in the collection. There is nothing that says summer more than the sweet smell of freshly cut hay, drying in the fields. [...]

  Last summer we received a beautiful quilt and silhouette for our collection. The quilt is said to have been made by Mary Eaton, here in Norwich, in the mid-nineteenth [...]