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Quechee is a census-designated place and one of five unincorporated villages in the town of Hartford, Windsor County, Vermont, United States. As of the 2020 census, Quechee had a population of 831. It is the site of Quechee Gorge on the Ottauquechee River and is also the home to the Quechee Lakes planned community, initiated in the late 1960s, which also brought to the community the small Quechee Lakes Ski Area in the 1970s. Quechee was known for a picturesque covered bridge at the site of the old Quechee mill, which now houses the Simon Pearce glass-blowing facility and restaurant. The bridge was severely damaged by flooding caused by Hurricane Irene in 2011. The bridge has since been rebu…
Its first post office opened in 1868. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 656 to 831 (+27%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
From the old history books
What they wrote about Quechee in 1891
Passages that mention Quechee, cut from the printed page as they were published.
History of Windsor county, Vermont1891 · page 611Read the page →
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chee River at Bridgewater, for manufacturing purposes, was Richard Southgate He was from Massachusetts and came to Bridgewater in 1784, and took an active part in developing the early settlement of that town. In 1786 he built a dam across the Quechee, which was situated about ten rods west of the present dam at Bridgewater. He there carried on for a number of years a saw and grist-mill. Mr. Southgate had a family of six children, of whom three were sons, viz.: Richard, Thomas and James, who were at different times connected with their father in
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History of Windsor county, Vermont1891 · page 353Read the page →
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While unquestionably second to the Junction in point of population, but not second in point of importance as a manufacturing center, is the village of Quechee, situate on the line of Woodstock Railroad and midway between the Junction and the county seat. Incredible though it may appear, it is nevertheless a fact, that manufacturing has been carried on, possibly with brief intervals, at this point for a period of almost one hundred and twenty-five years ; for here a saw-mill was erected as early if not before the year 1769, and in the course of a few more years
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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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While unquestionably second to the Junction in point of population, but not second in point of importance as a manufacturing center, is the village of Quechee, situate on the line of Woodstock Railroad and midway between the Junction and the county seat. Incredible though it may appear, it is nevertheless a fact, that manufacturing has been carried on, possibly with brief intervals, at this point for a period of almost one hundred and twenty-five years ; for here a sawmill was erected as early if not before the year 1769, and in the course of a few more years
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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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chee River at Bridgewater, for manufacturing purposes, was Richard Southgate He was from Massachusetts and came to Bridgewater in 1784, and took an active part in developing the early settlement of that town. In 1786 he built a dam across the Quechee, which was situated about ten rods west of the present dam at Bridgewater. He there carried on for a number of years a saw and grist-mill. Mr. Southgate had a family of six children, of whom three were sons, viz.: Richard, Thomas an_d Janies, who were at different times connected with their father in
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Timeline
Quechee, 1906 to 1984
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
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.
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 →
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