by Jerry Carbone | Apr 18, 2019 | Brattleboro history, News
The last footnote, 162 (yes that is 162 footnotes in a 41 page article) of this scholarly essay in Winter/Spring issue of Vermont History, mentions a map, which is “…the first cartographic effort utilizing the caption “State of Vermont” to represent the...
by Jerry Carbone | Feb 8, 2018 | Brattleboro history, News, Postcards
Vernon, Vt., August 15, 1907 Dear Duddy, “Cheer up” I’ve just invested in a few Post Cards. Why didn’t you stop Sunday? If he cant [sic] drive he might surely hold you in I should think. Hope you will have good luck in Brattleboro. Julie is going to have a school in...
by Jerry Carbone | Dec 21, 2017 | Brattleboro history, News
I just received Vermont Historical Society’s History Connections, vol 12, number 1, and inside this short newsletter features an article on the two of the earliest known photographs of Vermont by Thomas Easterly (1809-1882) of Guilford, Vt. According to the...
by Jerry Carbone | Dec 15, 2017 | Brattleboro history, Libraries, News
While my wife Kathy was at a professional meeting yesterday at Worcester State University, I spent several hours at the wondrous American Antiquarian Society. The AAS, as described on their website, was: Founded in 1812 by Revolutionary War patriot and printer Isaiah...
by Jerry Carbone | Dec 2, 2017 | Brattleboro history, News, Vermont Genealogy
In the August 2, 1940, Vermont Phoenix, an article titled “Wesselhoeft Kin Buys Red Daily,” reported that Mrs. Ferdinanda W. Reed, 63, who is the granddaughter of the Water-Cure founder, Robert Wesselhoeft, along with two other women, purchased the...
by Jerry Carbone | Nov 28, 2017 | Brattleboro history
I spent the day researching in the Brooks Memorial Library archival holdings of the Wesselhoeft Water Cure, or also known as, the Brattleboro Hydropathic Institution. Founded by German born, Robert Wesselhoeft in 1845, the water-cure attracted hundreds of people from...
