Upcoming meetings

Monday, October 16, 2023 6:00 PM
Grange Hall/Community Center
Speaker: Not yet announced
Subject: Not yet announced
No Documents Available
Monday, November 20, 2023 6:00 PM
Grange Hall/Community Center
Speaker: Not yet announced
Subject: Not yet announced
No Documents Available
Monday, December 18, 2023 6:00 PM
Grange Hall/Community Center
Speaker: Not yet announced
Subject: Not yet announced
No Documents Available

Past meetings

Monday, September 18, 2023 6:00 PM
Grange Hall/Community Center
Speaker: Melody Brown
Subject: A Presentation on the Vermont Covered Bridge Society
No Documents Available
Please join us for a presentation by Beth Brown on the work of the Vermont Covered Bridge Society.  Our covered bridges are a visual and cherished reminder of our history and remain part of the scenic legacy that residents and visitors alike enjoy. 

The meeting will begin at 6PM at the Grange Hall/Community Center (above the Bailey Library) on Moulton Ave in North Clarendon Village.  All are welcome.  There is an elevator. 
Thursday, August 10, 2023 6:00 PM
To be announced
Speaker: Ron Evans
Subject: Kingsley Mill Talk & Tour
No Documents Available
At 6PM Thursday August 10th, the Historic Society of Clarendon, VT will be meeting at the very historic Kingsley Mill in East Clarendon.  Ron Evans will give a talk and lead tours of this National Historic Register property.  

The Kingsley Bridge on East Street is closed for repairs as is Gorge Rd south of it's intersection with East Street.  The only access to the Kingsley Mill property is via Airport Rd.   Park anywhere on the segment of Gorge Rd that is open south of the intersection with Airport Rd or on the small segment of East St that is open north of the bridge.  The mill is accessed down the driveway adjacent to the bridge.  

The Kingsley Mill itself, the builder Nichols Powers, and the people who lived and worked there played a prominent role across a wide swath of Clarendon's history.   Please join us for what will be a very interesting talk.  

All are welcome.  Bring a chair if you wish to sit during the talk.  Contact Bob Underhill  at bunderhill53@gmail.com with any questions. 
Monday, July 17, 2023 6:00 PM
Grange Hall/Community Center
Speaker:
Subject: July 17th Historic Society Meeting
No Documents Available
It’ll be “Show and Tell” at the Monday July 17th meeting of the Historic Society of Clarendon.  Bring photos, documents, or objects that you think might be of interest and tell us about them.  Or be part of the audience learning a bit of history from what others bring.  All are welcome.

The meeting will be at 6PM at the Community Center/Grange Hall (above Bailey Library) on Moulton Ave in North Clarendon Village.  There is elevator service.  Contact Bob Underhill at bunderhill53@gmail.com with any questions. 
Monday, June 19, 2023 6:00 PM
Grange Hall/Community Center
Speaker:
Subject:
No Documents Available
Phil Mandolare will talk about how we use metal detecting as a tool in our research efforts.  Metal detecting can help identify former occupied sites, aid in dating them, and help define what the nature of the site was.  Sometimes history sits right below our feet waiting to be discovered.

Please join us.  All are welcome. 

Monday, May 15, 2023 6:00 PM
Grange Hall/Community Center
Speaker: Nick Strom-Olsen
Subject: Annual Meeting & Talk on Nichols Powers the Bridge Builder
No Documents Available
A reminder for this evening's meeting:  

Arguably the most accomplished person ever in Clarendon was Nichols Powers, the famed bridge builder.  Please join us to hear a talk on him by his g.g.grandson Nick Strom-Olsen. 

The meeting will begin at 6PM at the Grange Hall/Community Center (above the Bailey Library) on Moulton Ave in North Clarendon Village.  All are welcome.  There is an elevator. 

Prior to the Nichols Powers talk, we will hold a brief Annual Meeting at 5:30 PM.  The agenda is as follows:

Call Meeting to order

Approval of 2022 Annual Meeting Minutes

Elections of Officers/Board Members

Financial Statement for the year ending 12/31/2022

Annual Report

Other Business as may be presented by members

Monday, April 17, 2023 6:00 PM
Grange Hall/Community Center
Speaker: Pat Moore
Subject: 200th Anniversary of the Brick Church
No Documents Available
Please join us to hear Pat Moore give a talk about the 200th anniversary of the Brick Church.  It is the only institution other than the town itself that has survived 200 years in Clarendon, and the fact that we still have the physical church itself makes it all the more special. 

The meeting will begin at 6PM at the Grange Hall/Community Center (above the Bailey Library) on Moulton Ave in North Clarendon Village.  All are welcome.  There is an elevator. 

Also, this will serve as Notice for our Annual Meeting:

The Society cordially invites you to our Annual Meeting, to take place at the Clarendon Community Center (the Grange Hall) on Moulton Ave., Monday May 15th at 5:30PM.  The agenda is as follows:

Call Meeting to order

Approval of 2022 Annual Meeting Minutes

Elections of Officers/Board Members

Financial Statement for the year ending 12/31/2022

Annual Report

Other Business as may be presented by members

Monday, March 20, 2023 6:00 PM
Grange Hall/Community Center
Speaker: Dave Potter
Subject: 1947 Sugaring Video @ Potter farm
No Documents Available
Please join us for a showing of the ca. 1947 Potter family home videos of the sugaring operation on their W. Tinmouth Road farm.  These films were previously shown at the May 2021 meeting.  Subsequent to that meeting Phil Mandolare worked with Dave Potter to narrate the films, so this showing will be even more informative than the first. Dave will also answer any questions about the Potter farm. 

The meeting will begin at 6PM at the Grange Hall/Community Center (above the Bailey Library) on Moulton Ave in North Clarendon Village.  All are welcome.  There is an elevator. 
Monday, February 20, 2023 6:00 PM
Grange Hall/Community Center
Speaker: George Ambrose
Subject: Growing up on a Teer Farm in the 40's and 50's
No Documents Available
Join us for a talk by George Ambrose about growing up on the Teer farm in the 1940's & 50's in Clarendon Springs.  For those who don't already know George, you'll be glad you came to hear him.

The meeting will begin at 6PM at the Grange Hall/Community Center (above the Bailey Library) on Moulton Ave in North Clarendon Village.  All are welcome.  There is an elevator. 

Monday, January 16, 2023 6:00 PM
Grange Hall/Community Center
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available
Monday, December 19, 2022 6:00 PM
Grange Hall/Community Center
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available
Monday, November 21, 2022 6:00 PM
Grange Hall/Community Center
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available
Monday, October 17, 2022 6:00 PM
Grange Hall/Community Center
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available
Monday, September 19, 2022 6:00 PM
Grange Hall/Community Center
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available
Monday, August 15, 2022 6:00 PM
Grange Hall/Community Center
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available
Monday, July 18, 2022 6:00 PM
Grange Hall/Community Center
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available
Monday, June 20, 2022 6:00 PM
Grange Hall/Community Center
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available
Monday, May 16, 2022 6:00 PM
Grange Hall/Community Center
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
Documents
  2021 Financials
  Historical Society 2021 Annual Report
Monday, April 18, 2022 6:00 PM
Grange Hall/Community Center
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available
Monday, March 21, 2022 6:00 PM
Grange Hall/Community Center
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available
Monday, February 21, 2022 6:00 PM
Grange Hall/Community Center
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available
Monday, January 17, 2022 6:00 PM
Grange Hall/Community Center
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available
Monday, December 20, 2021 6:00 PM
Grange Hall/Community Center
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available
Monday, November 15, 2021 6:00 PM
Grange Hall/Community Center
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available
Monday, October 18, 2021 6:00 PM
Grange Hall/Community Center
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available
Monday, September 20, 2021 6:00 PM
Grange Hall/Community Center
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available
Monday, August 16, 2021 6:00 PM
Grange Hall/Community Center
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available
Monday, July 19, 2021 6:00 PM
Grange Hall/Community Center
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available
Monday, June 21, 2021 6:00 PM
Grange Hall/Community Center
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available
Monday, May 17, 2021 6:00 PM
Grange Hall/Community Center
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
Documents
  Historical Society 2020 Annual Report
  Hist. Soc. YE 2020 Financials
Monday, April 19, 2021 6:00 PM
Grange Hall/Community Center
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available
Monday, March 15, 2021 6:00 PM
Grange Hall/Community Center
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available
Monday, February 15, 2021 6:00 PM
Grange Hall/Community Center
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available
Monday, January 18, 2021 6:00 PM
Grange Hall/Community Center
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available
Monday, December 21, 2020 6:00 PM
Grange Hall/Community Center
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available
Monday, November 16, 2020 6:00 PM
Grange Hall/Community Center
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available
Monday, October 19, 2020 6:00 PM
Grange Hall/Community Center
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available
Monday, September 21, 2020 6:00 PM
Grange Hall/Community Center
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available
Monday, August 17, 2020 6:00 PM
Grange Hall/Community Center
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available
Monday, July 20, 2020 6:00 PM
Grange Hall/Community Center
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available
Thursday, June 18, 2020 6:00 PM
Clarendon Town Hall
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available
This meeting has been canceled in keeping with current coronavirus protocols. 
Thursday, May 21, 2020 6:00 PM
Clarendon Town Hall
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
Documents
  Historical Society 2019 Annual Report
  2019 Financials
This meeting will include the society's annual meeting and due to the covid-19 situation will be held via teleconference using Zoom.  In addition to the standard items this meeting will include an amendment to the By-Laws to remove Article VI (2) that limits the President to a single consecutive term. 

Thursday, April 16, 2020 6:00 PM
Clarendon Town Hall
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available
This meeting has been canceled in keeping with current coronavirus protocols. 
Thursday, March 19, 2020 6:00 PM
Clarendon Town Hall
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available
This meeting has been canceled in keeping with current coronavirus protocols. 
Thursday, February 20, 2020 6:00 PM
Clarendon Town Hall
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available
Thursday, January 16, 2020 6:00 PM
Clarendon Town Hall
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available
Thursday, December 19, 2019 6:00 PM
Clarendon Town Hall
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available

Thursday, November 21, 2019 6:00 PM
Clarendon Town Hall
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available
This meeting will feature a talk on local railroad history by Matt Rockwell.
Thursday, October 17, 2019 6:00 PM
Clarendon Town Hall
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available
This meeting will feature a talk by Garrett Crift on the history of Native Americans in this area. 
Thursday, September 19, 2019 6:00 PM
Clarendon Town Hall
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available
This meeting will feature a talk by Dave Potter about the Clarendon Springs Mineral industry.  He will offer background on the whom, when, and how it was founded, and how it evolved over the years.  His talk will also include the alleged medicinal attributes and chemical makeup of the water and the timing and decline of the mineral springs industry in Clarendon Springs specifically and in Vermont generally. 
Thursday, August 15, 2019 6:00 PM
Clarendon Town Hall
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available

Thursday, July 18, 2019 6:00 PM
Clarendon Town Hall
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available
Wednesday, June 19, 2019 12:00 AM
Clarendon Town Hall
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available
We are going to use the June meeting to catch up with some planning that we haven't had much time for.  Of course if an interesting topic or photo or artifacts finds its way to the meeting we'll have some fun with that too. 
Wednesday, May 15, 2019 6:00 PM
Grange Hall/Community Center
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
Documents
  Historical Society 2018 Annual Report
  2018 YE Financials
Following our Annual Meeting, the topic will be  "The Devil's Cabinet: The Eddy Family of Spirit Mediums" by Jason Smiley of Milton, VT. 

The presentation is about the Eddy family of Clarendon and Chittenden, Vermont (Rutland County). During the mid to late 1800's they became world-renowned as spirit mediums with the alleged ability of generating full-bodied spirit manifestations or "materializations" of the departed. People traveled from all over the world to Chittenden to witness these phenomena for themselves. Some came with the hope of seeing and speaking to their own departed family members. Others came as skeptics, hoping to debunk the family's alleged powers as "humbug". By 1874, the family was so well-known that Chittenden started being referred to as "Spirit Vale". To this day, there are many who believe that the family had genuine supernatural abilities. The family and the story has ties to P.T. Barnum, Mark Twain, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Harry Houdini, Queen Victoria, and President Lincoln.


Attached is the Annual Report for the historic society included in the 2018 Town Report.  2019 YTD updates will be noted at the meeting.  Also attached is the 2018 YE Financial Report.
Wednesday, April 17, 2019 6:00 PM
Grange Hall/Community Center
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available
The planned topic will be a presentation by Al. Ridlon Sr. talking about the formation and history of the Clarendon Fire Dept. 
Wednesday, March 20, 2019 6:00 PM
Clarendon Town Hall
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available
The planned topic for this meeting will be "Mysteries". 
Wednesday, February 20, 2019 6:00 PM
Clarendon Town Hall
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available
The planned topic for the February meeting will be Clarendon Taverns.
Wednesday, January 16, 2019 6:00 PM
Clarendon Town Hall
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available

Wednesday, December 19, 2018 6:00 PM
Clarendon Town Hall
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available

Wednesday, November 21, 2018 6:00 PM
Clarendon Town Hall
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available

Wednesday, October 17, 2018 6:00 PM
Clarendon Town Hall
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available

Wednesday, September 19, 2018 6:00 PM
Clarendon Town Hall
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available

Wednesday, August 15, 2018 6:00 PM
Clarendon Town Hall
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available

Wednesday, July 18, 2018 6:00 PM
Clarendon Town Hall
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available

Wednesday, June 20, 2018 6:00 PM
Clarendon Town Hall
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available

Wednesday, May 16, 2018 5:30 PM
Grange Hall/Community Center
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
Documents
  Historical Society 2017 Annual Report
  2017 Financials

Wednesday, April 18, 2018 6:00 PM
Clarendon Town Hall
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available

Wednesday, March 21, 2018 6:00 PM
Clarendon Town Hall
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available

Wednesday, February 21, 2018 6:00 PM
Clarendon Town Hall
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available

Wednesday, January 17, 2018 6:00 PM
Clarendon Town Hall
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available

Wednesday, December 20, 2017 6:00 PM
Clarendon Town Hall
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available

Wednesday, November 15, 2017 6:00 PM
Clarendon Town Hall
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available

Wednesday, October 18, 2017 6:00 PM
Clarendon Town Hall
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available

Wednesday, September 20, 2017 6:00 PM
Clarendon Town Hall
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available

Wednesday, August 16, 2017 6:00 PM
Clarendon Town Hall
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available

Wednesday, July 19, 2017 6:00 PM
Clarendon Town Hall
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available

Wednesday, June 21, 2017 6:00 PM
Clarendon Town Hall
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available

Wednesday, May 17, 2017 6:00 PM
Clarendon Town Hall
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
Documents
  Annual Report May 2017
  P&L 2016
  


Wednesday, April 19, 2017 6:00 PM
Clarendon Town Hall
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available


Wednesday, March 15, 2017 6:00 PM
Clarendon Town Hall
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available

Wednesday, February 15, 2017 4:15 PM
Clarendon Town Hall
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available



 



Thursday, January 19, 2017 4:15 PM
Clarendon Town Hall
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available



Thursday, December 8, 2016 4:15 PM
Clarendon Town Hall
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available

Tuesday, November 22, 2016 4:15 PM
Clarendon Town Hall
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available


Monday, January 1, 1900 12:00 AM
To be announced
Speaker: Not Announced
Subject: Not Announced
No Documents Available
No Minutes Available