Around The Block Quest

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Around The Block Quest

Windsor, Vermont 05089, United States

Created By: Windsor Vermont Historical Association

Tour Information

Windsor, Vermont

Physical Difficulty: Easy

Special Features: Historical and Sidewalks (1.5 miles)

To get there: This quest begins across the street from the Windsor Town Offices at 29 Union Street.

Overview: Find out about seldom-discussed historical aspects around Windsor’s town square. Many of these stops are privately owned; please respect owners’ privacy.


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Leave the parking lot.  Cross Union Street.  Face the fire station.  These homes nestled neat.  In 1886, this L. R. Burleigh print depicted a few homes on Union Street at the base of the hill leading to Clough Avenue. In 1939, this spac... Read more
Continue up the hill and  down to Mill Brook.  Here a Covered Bridge  Had a very different look.  The 1901 Sanborn Fire Insurance maps list the structure over Mill Brook as a covered bridge and the “mill” left of the bridge as ow... Read more
At the top of Union  Swing to the Right.  Join Ascutney Street  A blue house delight.  Number 38 Ascutney Street was the site of the first Knight’s Funeral Home before it moved, in 1957, to its current location on Kennedy Pond. Leve... Read more
The Mower brothers,  Five can be found,  Including in this house  High up on the ground  Samuel A.G. Mower had five sons--Samuel, Charles, Solon, George, and Mack. Samuel served in the 1st and 10th Vermont infantry in the Civil War and ... Read more
Walk to the corner  Where the children do play  Here stood a beautiful home  ‘Til in ruins it lay  Built shortly after the Civil War began, this house was purchased by Samuel Stocker in 1863. Stocker was involved in many business part... Read more
On 54 State Street  Namesake road between  Dr. Phelps had a home  Right next to the Green  Edward Elisha Phelps, a physician like his father, was raised in Windsor beginning shortly after his birth in 1803. His talents extended far beyo... Read more
What isn’t there  Is a story to tell  A fire swept through  And the Davis Block fell  Next to 82 Main Street is the vacant lot formerly called the Davis Block. Connected to the current Boston Dreams on State Street, it burned in 1990.... Read more
Just before the cemetery The Green-Wardner House on the hill Was the Ascutney bank building They had their own bill. After ten years without a bank in Windsor, Ascutney Bank opened here, in Dr. George Green’s store, in 1848 with a capital... Read more
Before the NAMCO BLOCK apartments At Union and Main streets Stood the Windsor Club complex For workers and others to meet. In 1909, when Windsor Machine Company expanded its workforce to 550 people, it decided to create a social club for em... Read more

 

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