Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
4 places in town are on the National Register, among them a historic district with 3 buildings. Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1903 on, and the census since 1790.
Weybridge 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 Weybridge’s history is told.
Lost half of its people between 1830 and 1940, then more than doubled.
24 censuses, 1790–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Weybridge’s Wikipedia page.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Weybridge. 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 Weybridge.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Weybridge yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Weybridge is a town in Addison County, Vermont, United States. The population was 814 at the 2020 census.
Weybridge was established in 1761. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 833 to 814 (-2%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Weybridge, cut from the printed page as they were published.
year, in Weybridge one year, and in Starksboro five years, where he conducted a rake factory and wheelwright shop, after which he went to New Haven for three years, working at the carpenter and joiner's trade. In the spring of 1875 he came to Weybridge and worked at his trade until May, 1880, when he took charge of the Weybridge grist-mill, which he has since conducted. He was married March 20, 1805, to Miss Marcia L. Evans, of Randolph, Vt. They have had three sons born to them — Albert E., who died December 2, 1885, aged nineteen; Merle B., now a student at Beeman Academy, New Haven, and Claude M. Mr. Sneden haa always taken a deep interest in the issues of the day, and for many years has been an earnest
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After Daniel Foot discovered the defect in his title under the Weybridge charter, he purchased the right of pitching under the Cornwall charter and laid out one hundred acres, which included the whole of the falls on the Cornwall side and extended some forty rods south of them to " the old Weybridge corner." In the same year (1784) he erected a large building for a saw and a gristmill; the first was put in operation in July, and the other in November, 1785.
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.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Born hereEdwin James is born here
In the archiveSheldon Museum. Charity Bryant and Sylvia Drake, Middlebury Vermont
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
BuiltCotton Free Library is builtOne decade in the archive so far: the 1860s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
2015Pulpmillbridge EB
2014PulpMillBridge EBWalkway fromWBRG
2013Where's All Your Cat Photos?
2013We're Cookin Now!
2013Lined Up for the View
2013Bryan in Mid Sentence
2013Bryan Later in Same Sentence
2012Otter Creek VT
2012Bridge 26 Weybridge - New Haven Vermont
2012Bridge 26 Weybridge - New Haven Vermont informational…
2012Autumn Monument
2011Weybridge Town Hall
2011VT 23 at Snake Mountain Road
2011Cotton Free Library
2009Snake Mountain Road
2004Weybridge vt highlightNo 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 Weybridge’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.
Weybridge had its own post office from 1886 to 1905. Another post office, Weybridge Lower Falls, 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. Weybridge’s post office opened in 1832, and the first U.S. census counted 175 people here in 1790.
4 listings: 2 buildings, 1 historic district, the University of Vermont Morgan Horse Farm, with 3 contributing buildings, and 1 structure. 5 historic buildings in all.
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 (17), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (4), 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.
