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History · Ascutney

Ascutney’s post office opened in 1924, and 18% of its homes were built before 1940

1 place in town is on the National Register. Below: 1 old photo or paper from 1964 on and old-book passages.

1924first post office
1on the National Register
18%homes built before 1940
1old photo or paper
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Quick answers

How Ascutney began

When was Ascutney founded?

1924

The Ascutney post office opened in 1924, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 529102 years
Founding year: the first Ascutney post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Ascutney’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenOnly 1 old photo is in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.
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Start Ascutney’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Ascutney’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
1 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Retake an old viewRomaine Tenney: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
The story so far

Ascutney, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Ascutney yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Ascutney is an unincorporated village and census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Weathersfield, Windsor County, Vermont, United States. It is located in the northeastern section of Weathersfield, in the portion of that town adjacent to Mount Ascutney, after which the village is named. As of the 2020 census, Ascutney had a population of 529.

Its first post office opened in 1924. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 540 to 529 (-2%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

From the old history books

What they wrote about Ascutney in 1891

Passages that mention Ascutney, cut from the printed page as they were published.

It was to be known as the Ascutney Railroad; an act of the Legislature was obtained, giving the town the right to bond itself for eight times the amount of the grand list. At a town meeting held in 1872 the town voted to bond itself for four times the amount of the grand list, to encourage this ent…
History of Windsor County, Vermont, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers1891 · page 418Read the page →
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It was to be known as the Ascutney Railroad; an act of the Legislature was obtained, giving the town the right to bond itself for eight times the amount of the grand list. At a town meeting held in 1872 the town voted to bond itself for four times the amount of the grand list, to encourage this enterprise, but the action thus taken was afterwards rescinded in 1873. In 1886 the Springfield Railroad Compapy contemplated building a line from Claremont Junction to Gassett's, but after considerable work had been done on it, the matter was dropped. The

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.

By decade

Ascutney, decade by decade

One decade in the archive so far: the 1960s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1960s1 item
Romaine Tenney1964Romaine Tenney
1970s–1990snothing yet
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Add from your album
Today5 recent
Proctor Library2017Proctor LibraryMartin Memorial Hall2017Martin Memorial HallAscutney Union Church2017Ascutney Union ChurchClaremontNH AscutneyBridgeNorthSide2014ClaremontNH AscutneyBridgeNorthSideVT 131 at US 5 and VT 122013VT 131 at US 5 and VT 12
Then & now

Stand where they stood

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.

Romaine Tenney
Retake this viewRomaine Tenney, 1964

Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Ascutney’s page.

Retake this view · +15
On the National Register

1 historic place in Ascutney

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Famous people

Famous people close to Ascutney

Nobody well known was born in Ascutney itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Donald J. CramAmerican chemist · b. 1919
Nettie StevensAmerican geneticist · b. 1861
Salmon P. ChaseAmerican politician and lawyer · b. 1808
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Eugene OdumMathematician, ecologist, natural philosopher, … · b. 1913
Sarah Josepha HaleAmerican writer and editor · b. 1788
Barbara CochranAmerican alpine skier · b. 1951
Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Weathersfield4 historic placesB+

Questions about Ascutney’s history

What year was Ascutney founded?

The Ascutney post office opened in 1924, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Sources

Where this page comes from

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 (6) 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.