Orwell Village School before 1989 addition and renovation

Orwell Village schoolhouse (1897-1939)

Home of the Catlin, Ray, and Root families: the house stood on the site of the present Village School.

Village School 1940-49, taken February 1940

Smith School, Royce Hill Road

Smith School students and teacher, Anna Hopkins

Hill School students and teacher, Mabel Raymond

Dan Babbit’s store

IGA Store owned by Philip W. Smith, 1942. Burned 1971.

Orwell fire truck, 1941 (Johnnie & Gramp Beeman)

Orwell Barber Shop: Francis Stedman and Mr. Boulia

Obelisk at Mount Independence: Luthene, Eliza, and Thelma Lillie; Addison Kimball and Mary (Lillie) Kimball. The Kimball farm house in rear no longer exists.

Raising Revolutionary cannon off Mount Independence, 1993

Mount Independence Visitors’ Center, opened 1996

James F. Lillie’s grist mill, showing dam, with falls in the creek, storage buildings, and the rear of the mill

The Glen, below Lillie’s Grist Mill

Shipping apples, Stevens’ Orchard, around 1900 [2 pictures]

Brookside, 1863, from Burgett’s Illustrated Atlas

George Dana Bush house, built in 1886 by maternal grandparents of Lorene, Conrad and Rust Allen. Owned and rented out by an out-of-stater, it burned July 1998, after two previous arson fires started when the house was vacant.

Miss Hannah Pepper, born 1845, who lived in the house presently owned by Richard Goddard

House on North Orwell Road, July 1898, in the area once called Johnnycake City or Skunk Hollow. Marge and Martha Williams stand with child.

Felton home on Horton Road, now occupied by Dunshee family

The first Eagle Inn, built in 1816 by Jeremiah Boynton, operated by him until 1852. His son Joshua continued operation until 1886. Frederick B. Kimball then owned it until fire destroyed the building in February 1890.

Eagle Inn, rebuilt after the fire in 1890

Eagle Inn from the East, 1890

Eagle Inn postcard, dated 1906: It was mailed from Orwell on January 20, 8 AM, and was received at the Saratoga Springs post office that day at 5:30 PM.

Eagle Inn postcard. The green one-cent George Washington stamp is postmarked East Shoreham, Vt., Jan. 15, 9 AM, 1915.

Railroad depot in North Orwell, with C. D. Abell, station agent

Chipman Point Marina, showing historic warehouse and store

Chipman Point Inn’s Cracker Barrel tavern and restaurant

Wright’s Ferry

Orwell’s Main Street postcard was dated 1913. Note carriage  and driver on left.

Orwell Town Fair floats: this postcard from Addie Raymond was dated 1909

E. M. Wright’s store, about 1885.

Ducharme’s house and shoemaker shop, Depot Street (North Orwell Road), late 19^th century: Mr. and Mrs. Ducharme and daughter Marie.

Orwell Congregational Church

St. Paul’s Catholic Church and parochial residence

Buxton’s Store, late 1980s

First National Bank of Orwell was adjacent to W. B. Wright’s store

First National Bank of Orwell: C. E. Bush and Thomas Hammond greet customers, 1890

Village Green, 1889

Town Hall, showing rear sheds and a glimpse of the Root family house, on site of present Village School

Town Hall and the Congregational Church, 1891

Orwell Cornet Band, around 1900

May Pole dance at Orwell Village School, c. 1907

Tin Shop and residence owned by James E. Williams

Beeman’s Garage, 1933 and 1942 [2 photos]

Orwell sugar house, 1990s

Thelma Lillie holds Sarah Mallette, Orwell parade, 199

 (From left) Robert Young, George Thomas, Steve Burnel, and Fred Downs, 1995 parade

Mark Young occupies the rumbleseat in the 1995 parade

North Orwell Cemetery

St. Paul’s Catholic Cemetery

Lakeview Cemetery

Mountain View Cemetery

Hack Cemetery: detail 1834 drowning of a one-year-old

Hack Cemetery

Broken stone on the ground, Smith Cemetery

Coates Cemetery, Young Road

Reuben  and Esther Smith marker, Coates Cemetery

Wright Memorial Library

Bracketed Italianate barn built for John L. Hammond, Royce Hill Road [Hutton’s]

Tom and Mike Audet’s 1880 barn, Mt. Independence Road

Hester Phelps barn, Horton Road

Tom and Mike Audet’s 1880 barn, Mt. Independence Road