HARDWICK – At 4:30 p.m. on March 19, the Lamoille Valley Rail Trail (LVRT) Committee, a subcommittee of the Hardwick Recreation Committee, met at the Memorial Room in the Memorial Building to discuss spring and summer plans for the Hardwick section of the LVRT. Present were Helen Beattie and Brendan[Read More…]
Elizabeth Dow
U.S. Postal Service Instrumental in Name Changes
HARDWICK – In 1781, the Republic of Vermont granted a charter for a town named Hardwick to a group of 67 people known as proprietors. Most of them had some connection to Hardwick Massachusetts. The name Hardwick first appeared in a newspaper when, on January 22, 1787, Bennington’s Vermont Gazette[Read More…]
What’s in a Name?
To the editor: By the time the town of Hardwick had reached its 100th birthday in 1881, it had four villages: Hardwick Street, East Hardwick, South Hardwick, and Mackville. It had post offices in East Hardwick and South Hardwick. The USPS had designated the post office in South Hardwick as[Read More…]
Jerome, Welles are Trivia Winners
by Elizabeth H. Dow, Community Journalist HARDWICK – Matt Jerome and Kim Hartling Welles won the grand prizes in the Hardwick Historical Society’s (HHS) game of Halftime Trivia on Senior Night, February 16, at Hazen Union. Each prize consisted of a $25 gift certificate from either the Galaxy Bookshop or[Read More…]
Two St. J. & L.C. R.R. Trains Collide
HARDWICK – One of the most serious and fatal accidents in the history of the St. Johnsbury and Lake Champlain Railroad occurred at 4:45 p.m. on Friday, May 5, 1944. About a mile west of the Greensboro Bend station and six miles east of the Hardwick station a west-bound train[Read More…]
Life Was a Splendid Torch
To the editor In Lorraine Hussey’s obituary, her son mentioned her commitment to the Hardwick Historical Society (HHS). I’d like to describe that commitment. In 2004, she joined the team of volunteers organizing the collection that the town moved from the Memorial Building to the Depot. Neither she nor the[Read More…]
