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Villages and hamlets in Barnet include: Barnet, Barnet Center, County, East Barnet, McIndoe Falls, Mosquitoville, Passumpsic, Walter Harvey, West Barnet.
It should be noted that Town Clerks as a rule no longer will perform research but will assist researchers when they visit the town offices.
For current information for Barnet, visit their website at: Town of Barnet
For current information for the court, visit their website at: Caledonia County Probate Court
For current information for Barnet, visit their website at: Barnet Public Library
Early History
Excerpt from Child's
1887 Gazetteer
Biographies of Early Settlers
Revolutionary War Soldiers
War of 1812
Mexican War
Barnet Landowners in 1858
Barnet Civil War Volunteers
Spanish-American War
World War I
World War II
Korean Police Action
Vietnam Conflict
Goodwillie house, 26 Goodwillie Road, Barnet Center, VT
Mailing Address: 802
Warden Road, Barnet, VT 05821
Phone: (802) 633-2325
Website:Barnet Historical
Society
Email: [email protected]
(mailto:[email protected]
Hours and Admission: Fall Foliage weekends and By appointment
The museum is located in a house reputedly used as a station for the Underground Railroad prior to the Civil War. Many of the items were made and used in Barnet. There are quilts, clothing, 19th century household furnishings, tools, and photographs
Website:Bens Mill The O. L. Story Company of Boston produced only eight Painted Stage
Curtains. Barnet is fortunate in possessing three of these curtains. The Vermont
Painted Theater Curtains, Chris Hadsel of Burlington, Project Director, is a
Project of the Vermont Museum and Gallery Alliance of Woodstock, VT. They have
located 143 painted theater curtains in the State of Vermont. During the winter of 2004-2005, three such curtains were
professionally restored by Vermont Painted Theater Curtains.
The curtains at the Barnet Town Hall and at McIndoes Academy were rehung after
restoration. The curtain at the Lakeview Grange in West Barnet is currently in
the Fairbanks Museum in St. Johnsbury, VT but will be returned and rehung at the
Grange Hall. The curtain at McIA is the only curtain found in a school. Recently
a curtain was found in the Passumpsic Grange. The curtains may be seen by clicking on one of the following thumbnail photos: Town
Hall McIA
Lakeview Grange See: Ben's Mill 1790 US Federal Census Vital records information may be viewed at the Town Offices.
For current information for Barnet, visit their website at: Town of Barnet- Community option Early History The following photos were provided by Brian Lamothe who received them from Franklin Bailey.
Digging Deep Unearthing the Mysteries of Burial and Cemetery Laws; select
"Digging Deep" from the VT Secretary of States display. Caledonia County Cemeteries
Courtesy of Paul DesTroismaisons and Janice Boyko. Some listings of interments
and GoogleMaps.
Barnet Stage Curtains
Villages and hamlets in Barnet:
Barnet
Some of the Stevens family moved too
Barnet and bought a gristmill on what is now known as the Stevens River. The
community which grew up around the mill was called Stevens
Mill or Stevens Village. When the post
office was established, the village was renamed Barnet.
Barnet Center
Although this hamlet had a
church and a school as well as a scattering of farms, it never had a post office.
Comerford Dam See: Comerford Dam
Copenhagen
Now under the waters of Comerford dam, no record of name origin exists. While Esther Munroe Swift, in her book "Vermont Place Names - Footprints of History" lists Copenhagen
as a village in Waterford,
research indicates the village was actually on the Barnet side of the town line (Beers map of 1875).
County
The origin of the name is a mystery. There is no mention of the hamlet in either the History of Barnet nor the Footprints In History. There was a school and a cemetery.
East Barnet
John McLaren built a sawmill at the foot of the falls on the Passumpsic River. The community which grew up here was called McLarens. One A. B. Norris built a
bobbin mill and succeeded in getting a post office which was called Norrisville. This business failed and the name reverted back to McLarens. In 1882 the name was
changed to East Barnet. The Canadian Pacific Railroad established a station which was named Inwood.
McIndoe Falls
John McIndoe came to Barnet from Scotland at the end of the Revolutionary War and built mills at the falls in the Connecticut River.
In 1825, a post office was established here bearing the name McIndoes Falls. In 1893 the name was shortened to McIndoe Falls.
Mosquitoville
This hamlet, located in the southwest corner of Barnet, is locally known as Mosquitoville or Skeeterville, possibly because of the breeding ground for mosquitos in the
nearby Harveys Lake.
Passumpsic
Passumpsic is the Abnaki name of "Clear, Flowing, Sandy Bottom".
Walter Harvey
See Mosquitoville.
West Barnet
Robert Brock accompanied Alexander Harvey to Barnet. Robert and his father, Walter Brock, built a mill at the outlet of Harveys Lake. The community which grew up
there was called Brocks Mills. With the establishment of a post office there in 1853, the name was changed to West Barnet.
Barnet Vital Statistics
1800 US Federal Census Census
1810 US Federal Census Census
1820 US Federal Census Census
1850 US Federal Census For Barnet and Waterford
1940 US Federal Census For All of Caledonia County
1790 Orange County
Barnet Births to year 2001
Barnet Burials to year 2001
Barnet Marriages to year 2001
Barnet Deaths to year 2001
Barnet Civil Unions to year 2001Barnet Schools
McIndoes Academy
Barnet College Graduates
Locations of Barnet Schools of the Past
East Barnet Grades 1 thru 4 - October 1934
Left to Right
1st Row: Elmer Brown, Helen Capron, Ruth Warrell, Sherman Quimby, Robert Conway, Alvin Mosher, John Conway
2nd Row: Natlie Ross, Stafford Brown, Howard Ross, Franklin Bailey, Doris Conway, David MacDonald, Henry Boardman
3rd Row: Miss Moore (teacher), Eloise Brown, Irene Mosher, Pauline Dustin, Dale Cairns, Mildred Gilbert
4th Row: Richard Conway, Anita Mosher, Mary Quimby, Janet MacDonald
East Barnet Grades 5 thru
8 - October 1934
Left to Right
1st Row: Katherine Blake, Phyllis Boardman, Madeline Capron, Eunice Cooper
2nd Row: Frank Olsen, Edwin Brown, Catherine Cairns, Betty Peters, Ronald Capron
3rd Row: Miss Nichols (teacher), Carleton Brown, Horace Bailey, Sheldon Brown, Prince Hadley
4th Row: Robert Peters, Lawrence MacDonald
Barnet Churches
The First Congregational Church of Barnet
The United Presbyterian Church (Barnet Center)
East Barnet
The McIndoes Falls Congregational Church
The Passumpsic Baptist Church
The Reformed Presbyterian Church ("Walter Harvey")
The First Presbyterian Church of West Barnet
Cemetery Information
Click on the image to see the expanded image.
The first three photos were taken during February 1934 and show the Barnet Road Crew shoveling the road to the Bogie Farm on Garland Hill. The fourth photo shows the covered bridge at the head of the Stevens Falls sometime prior to its replacement in 1948. The fifth photo shows the results of a lightning strike sometime around September 1966. The sixth photo shows the Barnet Center Schoolhouse sometime before it was demolished. The seventh photo shows the finished croquet set as manufactured at the Roy Brothers Croquet Factory in East Barnet, the final photo was taken about May 30, 1915 at the dedication of the Civil War Monument.
Karme-Choling -- A Shambhala Meditation Center.
Milarepa Center -- A Tibetan Buddhist Center.