Windsor’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold only 2 old photos of Windsor. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗One of the New Hampshire grants, Windsor was chartered as a town on July 6, 1761, by colonial governor Benning Wentworth. It was first settled in August 1764 by Captain Steele Smith and his family from Farmington, Connecticut. In 1777, the signers of the Constitution of the Vermont Republic met at Old Constitution House, a tavern at the time, to declare independence from the Great Britain (the Vermont Republic would not become a state until 1791). In 1820, it was the state's largest town, a thriving center for trade and agriculture. In 1835, the first dam was built across Mill Brook to provide water power. Factories made guns, machinery, tinware, furniture and harnesses. The community is named for Windsor, Connecticut.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Windsor’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Windsor’s history is told.
2 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewExterior of state prison, 1900: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Windsor, decade by decade
1990s
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Exterior of state prison (1900) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Historic places
National Register · via Wikidata
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