About Our Special & Digital Collections
Special Collections
The purpose of the Bixby Library’s local history collection is to preserve materials that document the history of Vergennes, VT, and surrounding communities. The historical materials housed in the History/Archives Room include records of individuals and organizations chosen for preservation because of their continuing historical value to the community. There are several forms: transcripts, manuscripts, letters, journals, account books, rare books, maps, photographs, artifacts, and indexes.
The major emphasis of the collection is historical information about the city of Vergennes and the surrounding communities in Addison County. Subject areas include, but are not limited to, early settlers, family genealogy, business, work, and prominent individuals and events.
Listed below are finding aids to the materials housed in the Bixby Library’s History/Archives Room. To view the collections in person, please call the library at (802) 877-2211 or email us to make an appointment with a History Volunteer Team member.
Finding Aids
- Addison Land Book
- Addison Social Library Records
- Adella Ingham Papers
- Barnes Family Papers
- Brush Family Papers
- Chalker Family Papers
- Chester W. Allen Papers
- Deaths in Vergennes
- Eleonora C. Bradbury Papers
- Ethan Allen Post, GAR Records
- Ferrisburgh School Records
- Field Family Papers
- Forest and Field Club Papers
- General Edward Ripley Papers
- Grandy Family Papers
- Green Mountain Whittlin’s
- H.F. Leavitt Ledger
- Henry Fisher Papers
- John Devotion Smith Papers
- John Dod Ward Correspondence
- Margaret F. Foley Collections
- Monkton Iron Company Records
- National Red Cross Vergennes Waltham Branch
- Town of Panton Records
- Town of Waltham Records
- Vergennes Area Chamber of Commerce Records
- Vergennes School Records
- Vermont Militia Records
- Wesley T. Sturtevant Family Papers
- West Addison Congregational Society Records
- William G. Bixby Papers
- Wagstaff Collection
Digital Collections
The Bixby Library is in the process of digitizing many of our archives. Click on a link below to review the collections: