Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Its Register listing is the Simons' Inn. Below: 2 old photos and papers, maps from 1929 on, and the census since 1790.
Andover dates its founding to 1761 (Wikidata). It appears in the first U.S. census, 1790.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Andover’s history is told.
Lost two-thirds of its people between 1800 and 1950, then grew 3-fold.
24 censuses, 1790–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Andover’s Wikipedia page.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Born hereAlvin Adams is born here
Born hereIra Sherwin Hazeltine is born here
Born hereAustin Adams is born here
Born hereAlbert Gutterson is born here
In the archiveA Joyful Christmas. (8) (NBY 418577)
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
In the archiveRowell's Inn, State Route 11, Simonsville, Windsor County, VTWikipedia doesn’t have a history of Andover yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Andover is a town in Windsor County, Vermont, United States. The population was 568 at the 2020 census.
Andover was established in 1761. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 467 to 568 (+22%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Andover, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Important Events. — In 1780 John Simonds erected a saw and gristmill in what is now Weston. Stephen Dudley erected in the south part of the town of Andover, as at present constituted, the first grist-mill.
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in teaching, spending his time in Illinois, Shrewsbury, Vt., and other places. He enlisted in 1862, from the town of Weston, Vt., in Company H, Sixteenth Yerinont Regiment, and was discharged as a corporal at the expiration of the term of enlistment. In 1864 he became a resident of Andover, where he has since resided, and is engaged in farming. He represented Andover in the Legislature in 1874 and 1875, and was Senator from Windsor county in 1888 and 1889. He married Adalaide Putnam, and has one child, Edwin H.
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About two miles west of the present post-office of Andover, in the center of the town, near the Congregational Union church, the first post-office in the town was established. A general store was opened at an early day, and was conducted about the year 1840 by J. B. Manning, who sold out to Nathaniel Smith. The store was operated for a short time by A. C. Gutterson and then was made a Union store, and discon tinued about 1859. The first postmaster here was Samuel Nichols, whose successors have been James Blood, William Warner, Sewell
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About two miles west of the present post-office of Andover, in the center of the town, near the Congregational Union church, the first post-office in the town was established. A general store was opened at an early day, and was conducted about the year 1840 by J. B. Manning, who sold out to Nathaniel Smith. The store was operated for a short time by A. C. Gutterson and then was made a Union store, and discontinued about 1859. The first postmaster here was Samuel Nichols, whose successors have been James Blood, William Warner, Sewell
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
2 decades in the archive, from the 1910s to the 1930s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Andover. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Andover.
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Andover’s page.
Retake this view · +15The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.
Andover had its own post office from 1823 to 1937. Another post office, Simonsville, opened and closed inside today’s town.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
In 1761, according to Wikidata. Andover’s post office opened in 1823, and the first U.S. census counted 27 people here in 1790.
One place: the Simons' Inn (listed 1979).
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →
From Wikimedia Commons (8), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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