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History of Rockingham, Vermont, USA

Journey back in time to Rockingham, Vermont, USA

(Bellows Falls) (Saxton's River)

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Where is Rockingham, Vermont, USA?

• 1849 Rockingham
  Windham Co. Connecticut River washes the eastern border of this township. William's River runs through the central part, and unites with the...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1849 Bellows Falls
  There are in Rockingham several pleasant villages. Bellows Falls Village, situated on the bank of the Connecticut at Bellows Falls, in the...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1852 - Fire at Bellows Falls, Vermont.
  SPRINGFIELD, Monday, Dec. 20. The Valley Hotel at Bellows Falls, Vermont was destroyed by fire early this morning. The inmates barely escaped with...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1854 - Bellows Falls
  Bellows Falls, a post-village of Wind ham county, Vermont, on the E. side of Con necticut river, 80 miles S. by W. from Mont- pelier. In the river,...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1888 - AN EXPRESS TRAIN WRECKED. AND BOTH THE ENGINEER AND FIREMAN WERE KILLED.
  BELLOWS FALLS, Vt., April 7. - The night express train on the Vermont Central Railroad which left Boston at 7 o'clock last night was wrecked about...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1889 - PASSENGERS HAD A NARROW ESCAPE
  BELLOWS FALLS, Vt., March 20. - The Montreal and Boston night express over the Central Vermont Railway, Rutland Division, which reaches Boston at...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  1890s
  The Vermont Farm Machine Co.
  Bellows Falls, Vt.
  
•  1895 - Flood
  ...The most damage in Vermont was done at Bellows Falls, where the Connecticut river is very narrow. An old railroad bridge was swept away, and there ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1895 - Rockingham
  Rockingham, a post-hamlet and township of Wind ham co., Vt., on Williams River, and on the Central Vermont Railroad, 5 miles N. of Bellows Falls. It...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Arch Bridge, Bellows Falls, Vt., Length 648 ft.
  
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  Main Street looking West, Bellows Falls, Vt.
  
• 1906
  Rockingham, a post-village and township (town) of Windham co., Vt., on the Williams River and on the Rutland R., 5 miles N. of Bellows Falls. Pop. of ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1912 - BELLOWS FALLS HAS BIG FIRE. HOTEL AND TWO BIG BLOCKS DESTROYED AT LOSS OF $200,000.
  Bellows Falls, Vt., March 26. - The three principal business structures here, the Union and Arms blocks and the Hotel Windham were destroyed by fire, ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  New Post Office