by Carla Occaso, The Bridge PLAINFIELD – Baxter Bancroft resided in Plainfield longer than any other, 84 years (by 1882), per an entry in Volume IV of the Vermont Historical Gazetteer edited by Abby Hemenway in 1882. This section is titled “The History of Plainfield, Roxbury, and Fayston.” Bancroft had[Read More…]
Weeks Gone By
Growing Up Black in Hardwick
HARDWICK – My name is Orin LeRoy Bracey Jr. This article describes the youth of an octogenarian African American man, who had the uncommon good fortune to have grown up in rural Vermont in the late 1940s. It will become obvious upon reading this seven-year snapshot of my recollections of[Read More…]
Growing Up Black in Hardwick
HARDWICK – My name is Orin LeRoy Bracey Jr. This article describes the youth of an octogenarian African American man, who had the uncommon good fortune to have grown up in rural Vermont in the late 1940s. It will become obvious upon reading this seven-year snapshot of my recollections of[Read More…]
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…]
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…]
