Westminster’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold only 2 old photos of Westminster. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Westminster is Vermont's oldest existing town and was chartered in 1735 by the Province of Massachusetts Bay and was called New Taunton or Township Number One. The town did not have any permanent settlers in the area until 1751. New Hampshire settlers came in and the town was later incorporated in the Province of New Hampshire on November 9, 1752, becoming the third chartered town for New Hampshire west of the Connecticut River. When the British government recognized the Province of New York's claims to what is now Vermont, New York moved its Court of Common Pleas for Cumberland County to Westminster in 1772. It was the site of the Westminster Massacre in March 1775, in which two men were killed attempting to prevent New York provincial officials from exerting their authority over the area in the long-running dispute over the New Hampshire Grants. On January 15, 1777, a group of Vermont…
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Westminster’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Westminster’s history is told.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🗓️Date a photo1 archive item has no date+2 🔁Retake an old viewGravestone of first man killed in…, 1900: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Westminster
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Westminster, decade by decade
1990s
unknown1 item
Nothing in Westminster is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Westminster has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Westminster Village Historic District in Westminster, 0.8 miles away.
Westminster and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Gravestone of first man killed in Revolutionary War (1900) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom the Library of Congress (2) and the National Register (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.