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United States Vermont  Windsor   Bridgewater

Brief History
Bridgewater was a well named town even before any bridges were built. Records show that in 1879, Selectman Bradford Chase stated that there were seventy three bridges over ten feet across which required a total of 88,165 feet of plank.

These bridges were built covered to protect the floor of the bridge from the effects of the weather. When the winter snow arrived and wagon wheels had to be changed to runners, it was then necessary to pay someone to “snow” the bridges for easy passage.

Town Histories

 * History of Cavendish, Vermont., by Lois Wheeler (1952) - Find this book in a library.
 * Families of Cavendish : the early settlers of the Black River Valley in Windsor County, Vermont : a social and genealogical history, by Linda Margaret Farr Welch, Carmine Guica, and Barbara B Kingsbury (1999) - Find this book in a library.
 * Neither wealth nor poverty; the history of the woolen mills of Gay Brothers, 1869-1944, Tunbridge, Cavendish, Vermont, by Janet Mabie (1944) - Find this book in a library.

Vital Records
FamilySearch Historical Records Collection has Vermont birth, death, and marriage records online.

Probate Records
The probate district for Bridgewater is Hartford. Hartford Probate Court 62 Pleasant Street PO Box 275 Woodstock, VT 05091 Phone: (802) 457-1503

Maps
1869 map of Cavendish

Cemeteries
The following is a list of cemeteries in present-day Bridgewater. For location of cemeteries, see Cemeteries of Vermont, Windosr County, website at this link.


 * Cavendish Village Cemetery - inscriptions at Find A Grave site.
 * Mount Union Cemetery - inscriptions at Find A Grave site.
 * Old Revoluntionary War Cemetery - inscriptions at Find A Grave site.
 * Twenty Mile Stream Cemetery - inscriptions at Find A Grave site.

Cemeteries of Cavendish, Vermont records are available on microfilm at the Family History Library. Order film online.

Churches
First Universalist Church Records, 1848-1869, are on microfilm at the Family History Library. Order film online.

Baptist Church Records, 1866-1966, are available on microfilm at the Family History Library. Order film online.

Town Records
Digital images of Bridgewater Town records, 1773-1996, are available online at FamilySearch.

The Family History Library has microfilm of original records from the Bridgewater Town Clerk's Office. These include Land records, 1761-1904; indexes to land records, 1761-1952, Town records, 1776-1885, Records of births, marriages, and deaths, 1900-1996, and Records of marriages, births and deaths, 1840-1900; indexes to marriages, 1778-1883.

Bridgewater Town Clerk 7335 U.S. 4 Bridgewater, VT 05034 Phone: (802) 672-3334 Email: twnbridg@comcast.net Website: http://www.bridgewater.vt.gov/

Newspapers
Rutland Herald Newspaper

Libraries and Historical Societies
Bridgewater Historical Society, Inc PO Box 98 12 North Bridgewater Road Bridgewater, Vermont 05034 Phone: (802) 672-3745 Email: bridgewaterhistoricalsociety@gmail.com Website: http://www.bridgewaterhistory.org/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BridgewaterHistoricalSociety