We share our programs with the Calais Historical Society
Our last program of the year:
October 19 at 6:00 pm at the Old Brick Church
Potluck: bring food items and your own place settings
Calais and E Montpelier families involved in sawmills on Templeton Rd
chose to join many Vermonters who went West in the mid 1800s.
We zero in on the Whites, Dodges, and Herseys among others and explore their experiences in
Vermont and follow them to new locations.
Notes to Members:
Crowd source farms research: Farms List AND new Across The Onion Addendum with locations as 911 addresses. Here is a link to Google Maps, an easy way to find addresses: https://www.google.com/maps/
Both projects could benefit from feedback! Please contact Jennifer Boyer at vtpots@gmail.com to let me know if you can suggest any edits – include 911 address.
- FARMS LIST
Here is the link to the latest draft Farms List which lists farm locations in town with info starting in the 1800s: FARMS LIST updated 10/25/2021. You can read the PDF on your computer or print it out. It’s about 13 pages.
- ACROSS THE ONION Addendum
Here is the link to one of our new projects: Addendum to Across the Onion updated 9/15/2021. You can read the PDF on your computer or print it out. It’s about 11 pages. It clarifies locations in the book (which references 1983 house owners – not always helpful 40 years later) by using 911 addresses. You can buy copies of Across the Onion at the Town Clerk’ office. It’s a real treasure.
Checkers so far for these 2 projects: Audrey Lafirira, Paul Cate, Fred Strong, Jean Ormsbee, Joanne Bair, Bruce Chapell, Nancy Cresswell, Andy Christiansen, Mo and Barbara Brown, Paulie Coburn, Joanne Bair, Elliott and Sherwood Morse, Nathan Phillips, Lyn Blackwell, and more.
- East Montpelier History
Dave Coburn digitized the East Montpelier Chapter of 1889 Child’s Gazetteer. It has town history and citizen profiles.