Pomfret’s post office opened in 1837, and 34% of its homes were built before 1940
2 places in town are on the National Register, among them a historic district with 6 buildings. Below: 2 old photos and papers from 1850 on and old-book passages.
The Pomfret post office opened in 1837, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Snows Store (1826), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
2020 census: 916189 years
Founding year: the first Pomfret post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓
What stands out about Pomfret’s past
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The town was named after the Earl of Pomfret. Pomfret was chartered in 1761 by Benning Wentworth, who was the governor of New Hampshire. The first settler (1770) was Bartholomew Durkee, who came from Pomfret, Connecticut. Pomfret was called "New Pomfret" at first because most of the people who settled there came from the town in Connecticut.
One of the earliest ski tows in the United States was established at South Pomfret in 1934, and became known as Suicide Six. Now called Saskadena Six, it has developed into a small ski resort with a moderate-size lodge, a quad chairlift installed in 2017, and large snowmaking capabilities.
As has already been stated, the town of Pomfret furnished some men, a few, who were with the army during the Revolution ; and there subsequently came to live in the town other men who also had seen service during that struggle. Among the papers of the late Hosea Doton there has been found a list of names of persons, " soldiers in the War of the Revolution, who were at some (time) residents of the town of Pomfret, Vermont," as follows : Aaron Blanchard, Jesse Bruce, Abial Bugbee, Nathaniel Carpenter,
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History of Windsor County, Vermont, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers1891Read the page →
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As has already been stated, the town of Pomfret furnished some men, a few, who were with the army during tiic Revolution ; and there subsequently came to live in the town other men who also had seen service during that struggle. Among the papers of the late Hosea Doton there has been found a list of names of persons, " soldiers in the War of the Revolution, who were at some (time) residents of the town of Pomfret, Vermont," as follows : Anron Blanchard, Jesse Bruce, Abial Bugbee, Nathaniel Carpenter,
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History of Windsor county, Vermont1891 · page 728Read the page →
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meeting of the grantees was held at Pomfret, in the State of Connecticut, (this town being named from the Connecticut town of Pomfret,) on the 7th of September, 1761, in pursuance of a warning dated July 23, 1761, and duly published in the Boston Gazette and County Morning Journal. The meeting was organized by the election of Ebenezer Williams as moderator, Isaac Dana, jr., as proprietor's clerk, Simeon Sessions as collector, Ebenezer Williams as treasurer, Ebenezer Williams, John Williams, and Isaac Dana as committee for the said propri-
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History of Windsor County, Vermont, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers1891 · page 728Read the page →
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Ill -cting of the grantees was held at Pomfret, in the State of Connecticut, (this town being named from the Connecticut town of Pomfret,) on the 7th of September, 1761, in pursuance of a warning dated July 23, 1761, and duly pubhshed in the Boston Gazette and County Morning Journal. The meeting was organized by the election of Ebenezer Williams as moderator, Isaac Dana, jr., as proprietor's clerk, Simeon Sessions as collector, Ebenezer Williams as treasurer, Ebenezer Williams, John Williams, and Isaac Dana as committee for the said propri-
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Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
By decade
Pomfret, decade by decade
2 decades in the archive, from the 1850s to the 1900s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
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.
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 (4), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (2), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, 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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