Links to Norwich History

Summer 2015: The Norwich Pool and Norwich’s One-Room Schoolhouses
Fall 2015: Norwich’s Town Reports
Holiday 2015: Ransom Slack: Norwich’s Full-Duty Soldier
Winter/Spring 2016: Pattersonville: A Company Town
Fall 2016: Crossing the River
Holiday 2016: The Concrete Octopus
Winter/Spring 2017: The Norwich Water Story
Summer 2017: Mid-Century Modern Norwich
Fall 2017: The Church on the Plain
Holiday 2017: Know your Town
Winter/Spring 2018: Norwich Skiing and Olympics
Summer 2018: The Emerson Brothers–Norwich Builders and Architects
Fall 2018: Long Lost Lewiston, VT
Holiday 2018: The Village School
Winter/Spring 2019: Alden Partridge–Tramping with “Old Pewt”
Summer 2019: Student Life at Norwich University
Fall 2019: Paul Sample
Holiday 2019: Mary Ann Loveland: Life from a Scrapbook
Winter/Spring 2020: The Home Front: Norwich During World War II
Summer 2020: The Norwich Fair in Print
Fall 2020: Zerah Colburn, Vermont’s First Wiz Kid
Winter/Spring 2021: Allan Foley and Foley Park
Summer 2021: Dr. Edastina Bush
Fall 2021: How the Norwich Historical Society Came to Be
Holiday 2021: Ruby Fitzgerald and Norwich Telephones
Winter/Spring 2022: A Closer Look at Elsie Sniffin
Fall 2022: Norwich Cemeteries: History in Slate and Stone
Holiday 2022: Union Village
Winter/Spring 2023: The Metcalfs: Norwich Roots on Dutton Hill
Summer 2023: Norwich Illustrated Histories
Fall 2023: The Colorful History of the Norwich Inn
Winter/Spring 2024: Jones Circle

LANDSCAPE, BARNS, ARCHITECTURE

Landscape Change Program at UVM. A searchable collection of Vermont images by place, date, topic. Viewers may also submit photos.

Vermont Barn Census at UVM A survey of Norwich barns with history, maps, and photos.

Main Street Walking Tour

NATIONAL REGISTER

National Register of Historic Places Official list of buildings, structures, sites, objects, and districts that embody the historical and cultural foundations of our country.

Beaver Meadow Schoolhouse

Beaver Meadow Union Chapel

Jericho Road Historic District

Maple Hill Farm

Meeting House Farm

Mid-Century Modern Historic District

Norwich Village National Register District

Pomponoosuc and Pattersonville Archeology Survey

Root Schoolhouse

FAMILY HISTORY

Index to Norwich Historical Society Family Files

Norwich Town Clerk: Vital Records and Land Records

Find a Grave: Locate graves in all 50 states, some with photos.

Hillside Cemetery: James Eiler has mapped 223 military burials.

Vermont in the Civil War

Familysearch.com Search for your ancestors in millions of historical records. You can also search in the catalog, books, genealogies, and the Wiki. (Site is maintained by the Church of Latter-day Saints)

1790 Vermont Heads of Household – List of Norwich Heads of Household from 1790 census

Waltons 1867 Vermont Register – Business Directory

HISTORIC MAPS OF NORWICH

Norwich Lotting Map– Copy of original settlement map

1810 Whitelaw Map of Vermont -Shows early town boundaries, roads, mills, and schools

1856 Map of Windsor County, Vermont -Shows landowners

Windsor County 1869 Beers Atlas -Town maps listing residences and businesses

USGS Historical Topographic Maps Explorer -Topographical maps of Norwich from 1905 – 1995

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map, 1914
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Norwich 1940 map with home owners

Norwich 1959 map with home owners

Norwich 1963 map with home owners

Norwich 1973 map with home owners

Vermont Highway Maps

NORWICH UNIVERSITY HISTORY

Norwich University Archives Digital Collections Norwich University was founded in Norwich, VT. Many of the early letters in this archive were written by or to people in Norwich.

Norwich University Walking Tour

History of Theta Chi (founded at Norwich University)

History of Theta Chi video

OTHER REPOSITORIES WITH NORWICH MATERIALS

Evans Map Room, Dartmouth College
Leahy Library, Vermont Historical Society
Rauner Special Collections Library, Dartmouth College
Special Collections, University of Vermont