Cavendish’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold only 2 old photos of Cavendish. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Captain John Coffeen, the town's first permanent settler, brought his family and possessions into the wilderness of Cavendish in June 1769. They built a dwelling in the northern part of town on what is now E. I. Heald's farm, on the lot still called the "Coffeen pasture". The Coffeens remained the only family in Cavendish for two years. In the early 1780s, Leonard Proctor and Salmon Dutton came from Massachusetts and gave their names to the two major settlements on the Black River, Proctorsville and Duttonsville. In 1782, the first recorded town meeting occurred and Dutton was elected town clerk. He is credited with having conducted a 1784 survey for the first road from Duttonsville along the Black River to Ludlow (now Vermont routes 103 and 131). In 1786 he became the town's first justice of the peace. He also served as moderator of the town meeting, as selectman, and as town treasurer…
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Cavendish’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Cavendish’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewCavendishVermont Doton1855, 1855: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Cavendish, decade by decade
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as CavendishVermont Doton1855 (1855) and it appears here side by side.
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