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The Vermont Historical Society (VHS) was founded in 1838 to preserve and record the cultural history of the US state of Vermont. Headquartered in the old Spaulding School Building in Barre, the Vermont History Center is home to the Vermont Historical Society's administrative offices, the Leahy Library and a small book shop.
The Putney Village Historic District encompasses most of the main village and town center of Putney, Vermont.Settled in the 1760s, the village saw its major growth in the late 18th and early 19th century, and includes a cohesive collection with Federal and Greek Revival buildings, with a more modest number of important later additions, including the Italianate town hall.
The geologic history of Vermont begins more than 450 million years ago during the Cambrian and Devonian periods. Human history of Native American settlement can be divided into the hunter-gatherer Archaic Period , from c. 7000–1000 BC, and the sedentary Woodland Period , from c. 1000 BC to AD 1600.
The Dickinson Estate Historic District encompasses the core holding of an early 20th century country estate in rural northern Brattleboro, Vermont.It includes a sophisticated Colonial Revival mansion house, built in 1900, and a variety of agricultural outbuildings dating to the same period.
The Thetford Hill Historic District encompasses the well-preserved 19th-century village center of Thetford Hill in Thetford, Vermont.Developed between 1792 and about 1860 and located at what is now the junction of Vermont Route 113 and Academy Road, it includes mainly residential buildings, as well as several buildings of Thetford Academy and the 1785-88 Thetford Meetinghouse, one of the state ...
Burklyn Hall is a historic estate house on Darling Hill Road, straddling the town line between Burke and Lyndon, Vermont, USA.Built in the early 1900s for Elmer Darling, a locally-born New York hotelier, it is one of Vermont's largest and most opulent Colonial Revival houses, and was the centerpiece of a large country estate.
A number of Colonial Revival buildings were added in the early 20th century, and there are a modest number of Late Victorian buildings, notably the Norwich Inn. [2] The spine of the historic district is a section of United States Route 5 and Main Street north of Interstate 91, and extends along some of the cross streets. Buildings are mostly ...
Juniper Hill Farm stands atop the crest of a hill northwest of Windsor Vermont's main village and is accessed via a winding drive on the north side of Juniper Hill Road. The main house is a large U-shaped 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 -story wood-frame structure, oriented with the open end of the U to the north, facing terraced landscaping.