Selected Resources


Beers, F.W. Atlas of Bennington County, Vermont.
New York: F.W. Beers, 1869. Reprint. Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle, 1971.

Bennington and Rutland Railways. Summer Homes Among the Green Mountains.
New York: American Bank Note Co., 1889.

Brown, Dona. The Tourist’s New England: Creating an Industry 1820-1900. 1989.
(Located in Special Collections, Bailey-Howe Library, University of Vermont.)

Child, Hamilton. Child’s Bennington County Directory 1880-81.
Syracuse, NY: Hamilton Child, 1880.

Hemenway, Abby Maria. Vermont Historical Gazateer.
Burlington, VT: A.M. Hemenway, 1867.

Hinsdall Map of Bennington County, 1835.

History of Bennington County, Vermont. Syracuse, NY:
D. Mason & Co., 1889.

Pool, J. Lawrence and Angels J. Pool. America’s Valley Forges and Furnaces.
Dalton, MA: The Studley Press Inc., 1992.

Pritchett, Liz. Vermont Sites and Structures Survey Number 0202-249.
Bennington, VT: Bennington CLG for the Vermont Division for
Historic Preservation, 1993.

Resch, Tyler. The Shires of Bennington: A Sampler of Green Mountain Heritage.
Bennington, VT: Bennington Banner and Bennington Museum, 1975.

Robinson, Melvin H. Bennington Souvenir.
Bennington, VT: YMCA, 1903-04.

Rolando, Victor. 200 Years of Soot and Sweat: The History and Archeology
of Vermont’s Iron, Charcoal, and Lime Industries. Manchester, VT: Vermont Archeological Society, 1992.

Spargo, John. Iron Mining and Smelting in Bennington,
Vermont 1786-1842. Bennington, VT: Bennington Historical Museum, 1938.

Thompson, Zadock. History of Vermont: Natural, Civil and
Statistical in Three Parts. Burlington, VT: Zadock Thompson, 1853.

Van Santfoord, George et. al. Furnace Grove 1858-1958: The Story of a
Family Home. Bennington, VT: Campbell Family Papers, 1958.

Welter, Rush. Bennington, VT: An Industrial History. New York:
Columbia University School of Library Science Master’s Thesis, 1959.