Weston’s post office opened in 1815, and 27% of its homes were built before 1940
2 places in town are on the National Register, among them a historic district with 73 buildings. Below: 11 old photos and papers, maps from 1893 on, and the census since 1810.
Weston was originally the western part of Andover called West Town. Because Markham and Terrible Mountain blocked travel between the town's halves, it was set off and incorporated on October 26, 1799, by the legislature. Set among the Green Mountains, the terrain is very rough and mountainous, but the intervales provided good soil for agriculture and pasturage. A second village grew at the canal cut to divert the West River to power watermills. Called the Island, it developed into a small mill town.
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History of Windsor county, Vermont1891 · page 555Read the page →
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Ball, besides attending the local schools, was a student at the Weston Academy, and followed his father's trade till October 23, 1862, Avhen he became a member of Company C, Sixteenth Vermont Regiment, having enlisted from the town of Weston, Vt., and was made a corporal. He was mustered out of the service August 10, 1863, and re-enlisted from the town of Londonderry, March 7, 1865, for three years, but was discharged May 12, 1865, under the proclamation issued by President Lincoln at the close of the war.
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History of Windsor County, Vermont, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers1891 · page 555Read the page →
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Ball, bfsiiles attending the local schools, was a student at the Weston Academy, and followed his father's trade till October 23, 1862, when he became a member of Company C, Sixteenth Vermont Regiment, having enlisted from the town of Weston, Vt., and was made a corporal. He was mustered out of the service August 10, 1863, and re-enlisted from the town of Londonderry, March 7, 1865, for three years, but was discharged May 12, 1865, under the proclamation issued by President Lincoln at the close of the war.
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History of Windsor county, Vermont1891 · page 642Read the page →
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Upon the organization of the town of Weston the question was agitated of building a church in the center of the town, to be called a union church and to be used for town purposes. It was not until 1827 that the building was finished at Weston village; and on October 4, 1821, articles of faith were adopted by the members of the Congregationalist Society, and on November 19, 1828, the Rev. Stillman Morgan was ordained as the first settled minister of the society, and also the first one settled in the town. He remained pastor for a number of years, and
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History of Windsor County, Vermont, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers1891 · page 640Read the page →
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The Post- Office. — The only post office in Weston is located at the village of Weston, which is in the southern part of the town. The first record of a postmaster we find is in the year 1830, when John Wilder occupied the office. He continued in the position till 185 i, when he was succeeded by James H. Foster. Since then the following have been postmasters: G. P. Hannum, J. F. Wallace, H. C. Piper, C. M. I^iper, A. H. Drury, C. W. Sprague, Seymour P. Fenn and James F. Austin.
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Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Timeline
Weston, 1811 to 1941
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.
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 (9), the Library of Congress (8), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (2), Wikipedia, 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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