Waterford, Vermont, History: Another Stereo Image of Waterford

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Another Stereo Image of Waterford

Image Title: Shadows of the Passumpsic. The curve of the Ox Bow, Waterford, Vt.

Creator: Gage, F. B. (Franklin Benjamin), 1824-1874 -- Photographer

Medium: Albumen prints

Specific Material Type: Photographs

Item/Page/Plate: 594

Source: Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views. / United States. / States / Vermont. / Hills and Dales of New England / F. B. Gage.

Source Description: Approx. 72,000 stereoscopic views : 10 x 18 cm. or smaller.

Location: Stephen A. Schwarzman Building / Photography Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs

Catalog Call Number: MFY Dennis Coll 92-F47

Digital ID: G92F047_016F

Record ID: 741289

Digital Item Published: 3-9-2006; updated 6-22-2011

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Stories and History of Waterford, Vermont, Chartered Nov. 9, 1780

"The Town of Waterford is located in the southeastern part of Caledonia County, Vermont. It is bounded on the north-east by Concord, on the south by the southerly half of so-called Fifteen Mile Falls or rapids of the Connecticut River, on the southwest by Barnet, and on the northwest by St. Johnsbury.

"The Passumpsic River flows across the western corner of town; Stiles Pond is located in the northern part of the town. Its outlet flows into the Moose River in St. Johnsbury.

"At a meeting of the Governor and Council on Thursday, November 9th, 1780, a charter was granted to Benjamin Whipple and sixty-five associates as proprietors of the Township of Littleton [name would change to Waterford in 1797], the 43rd in the state and the second in Caledonia County, [the town of] Groton being one day older.

"The exact date of settlement is unknown but there is reliable evidence that James Adams was in town as early as 1783. Other settlers were John and James Wood, who settled near Passumpsic in 1782 or '85; and the Pike brothers, (Daniel and Nathan), Jonathan Hutchinson and Luther Knight who came from Royalston, Mass., in 1792 and settled in the eastern part of the town. The first settler in West Waterford was Amasa Hastings." -- From A VERMONT VILLAGE by Dr. C. E. Harris, circa 1942.

Waterford, Vermont, History