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Brattleboro History Home Contact Us Hawthorne Seven Gables Brattleboro History Alvan Fisher, August 1829, View Of Brattleboro Brattleboro History Thomas St. John Author of "Nathaniel Hawthorne On Beacon Hill", "Forgotten Dreams: Ritual In American Popular Art", "Lyman Frank Baum: Looking Back To The Promised Land", &c, &c. Independent Reseach In Local History seekingthephoenix@yahoo.com Old Jimmie Barnes And Sukie and Old Jimmie Barnes' Tale together comprise a small and detail-rich biography for Brattleboro's first village gravedigger. Susanna Weymouth, his wife, was a basket weaver and fortuneteller that James purchased from her first husband for a mug of flip in John Holbrook's warehouse store. "The honey bees in England," he said, "are big as the sheep in this country, but the hives are about the same size as used here." Seth Smith's House, Circa 1776 Seth Smith House 1776 describes the Cape Cod style colonial house on Western Avenue that was built about 1776 by Seth Smith, according to the Friday, July 1, 1898 Vermont Phoenix newspaper article. Seth Smith was a Minute Man during the Revolution, a crossroads grist mill owner, and later a Yorkist leader who was driven out by Ethan Allen. Chloe Smith, his niece, was Mrs. Rutherford Hayes, the grandmother of President Rutherford B. Hayes. Her diary describes the tavern and events in West Brattleboro. The best Revolutionary War history from Brattleboro! Brattleboro Pictures One Thousand Images Gallery 1 Gallery 2 Gallery 3 Gallery 4 Gallery 5 Gallery 6 Gallery 7 Gallery 8 Gallery 9 Google Image Search For Brattleborohistory.com Gallery 10 Gallery 11 Gallery 12 Gallery 13 Gallery 14 Gallery 15 Gallery 16 Gallery 17 Early Brattleboro Photographers United States General Military Hospital In 1863 Buildings Along The Lane That Became Atwood Street Civil War Hospital presents extensive photographs and details Brattleboro life during the War of the Rebellion. Here are the barracks, the first winter's mutiny, the quinine in the soup, patient lists, searching for spruce gum, the womens' soldier relief, the military exhibition at the Town Hall, the accidents, the pest house, the backgammon board, the medicinal cherry rum brandy recipe, the postal service, the chapel, the library, the sword presentation to the surgeons, drawings, maps, soldiers' and officers' records and speeches, the Invalid Corps on the Common on the long wooden benches, and the great achievements on "Hospital Hill". Lottery For Horatio Knight In 1827 The name of the Phoenix Lottery came from the notion that if you hit the jackpot, then your splendid new life would rise from the ashes of your old life---just like the fabled phoenix that arises anew every five hundred years from its own nested pyre, fretted with rue and cinnabar. Colonel John Hunt Farm, Cotton Mill Hill, Simon Brooks Farm View From New Hampshire Across Connecticut River The Fort Dummer Site is a wonderful introduction to how the Fort Dummer area has looked and changed over the years---the artifacts, roads, farms, the detailed maps constructed from the land records. Daniel Stedman's Civil War Letters These four letters are a rich source for Civil War soldiers' slang, humor, cooking habits, and manners with the 16th Vermont Infantry, and contain graphic descriptions of the ruined Virginia houses countryside. This soldier was the son of abolitionist Dr. Josiah Hotchkiss Stedman. He was wounded in the thigh at Gettysburg, and returned to Brattleboro to become the editor of the Vermont Phoenix. Capt. John "Ringbolt" Codman Praises Brattleboro The well-travelled correspondent returns to Brattleboro in early 1864 and reflects lyrically upon his memories of the old ways and present realities. Leonid Meteor Shower, November 13, 1833 In Brattleboro Leonid Meteor Shower also has references to reliable information---not weaponized, or "politically correct" propaganda---relating to Brattleboro's terraced structures, earthquakes, auroras, the West River Valley's brachiated formations, and geological catastrophe, available at http://www.thunderbolts.info/wp Hayes Tavern Sign Painted By Gravestone Cutter Stephen Risley, Jr. About 1808 The Rutherford Hayes Tavern stood on the old road to Marlboro, with Chloe Smith Hayes as the pious and efficient proprietress. This is the best-known and well-described Colonial house in Brattleboro history---not only because the grandson was President Rutherford B. Hayes. Mammoth Tusk describes the discovery of this fossil on what is now called Solar Hill or Harris Hill in September 1865. A reference in the land records to "Blake's pasture", and the presence of white quartz intrusions in the blue limestone on the north of Western Avenue, disproved the notion that this tusk was found in Wilson's Woods near the high school. The Brooks Library 1905 The Old Brooks Library is a long pictorial history and virtual tour of the elegant, beloved American library on Main Street that was torn down over forty years ago. The paintings, antiques, old newspapers, portraits, the old card catalogues, historical documents, letters, furniture, the formerly public, accurate, and protective accession lists, and the statuary represented here have now been greatly vandalized, stolen, scattered, concealed, censored, and outright destroyed by pillaging collectors, by continual "gifting" to the corrupt, predatory chop shop called the "Brattleboro Historical Society", and by covert removals by elite library staff. The massive damage from this deliberate, subversive, ugly attack on Brattleboro's rich historic records in the library, in several local church archives, the museum, and the Town Clerk's office, these atrocities committed by Marxist administration, in violent attempts to purify history through politically correct liquidation, cannot now be repaired--- Espied the god with gloomy soul The prize that in the casket lay, Who came with silent tread and stole The Jewel that was ours away. It is vitally important, for our self-respect, to remember when Brattleboro had a popular, beautiful, Christian, honest, and free library that was a genuine source of great pride; a library that always supported other, now also threatened, worthy New England and American traditions in Brattleboro. Levi Goodenough Farm The Levi Goodenough Farm is an architectural treasure on the Goodenough Road in West Brattleboro, built in 1783, and never wired for electricity. Rev. Hosea Ballou, 2d preached sermons in its large attic for the early Brattleboro Universalists. The writer H. P. Lovecraft visited Arthur H. Goodenough there during 1927-1928 and his house was the setting for the classic horror tale "The Whisperer in Darkness". Eng d by Thos. Chubbuck, Bratt o The Brattleboro Stamp describes Dr. Frederick N. Palmer---music teacher, dentist, bookseller, and Brattleboro postmaster, who invented the famous 1846 provisional stamp, and finally, a life-long homeopathic physician. The scores for five waltzes and one rollicking polka that Frederick N. Palmer composed in Brattleboro, and published in Boston in 1844 are presented here as originally published, and soon orchestrations for piano, organ, and five-piece band will be available, complete with scores and notes, from Lin Barrell of Illinois--- Polka #6 Score For Piano Courtesy Of Lin Barrell William A. Conant Violins concerns the violin maker, master craftsman who lived on Canal Street for so long at his labor, who was taught first by cabinetmaker Anthony Van Doorn, then by John Woodbury, and finally praised by the great Remini, concert violinist. Learn more about William Conant violins and cellos. Main Street In Autumn 1866 George Harper Houghton George Harper Houghton's Photograph looks at the wealth of detail and activity seen in this glassplate negative taken from an upper window in the Anthony Van Doorn building. Woman In Black At Monument To James Fisk, Jr. Brattleboro Epitaphs is a collection of over two hundred epitaphs, with their inscriptio...