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Our average membership donation is $62 and our median donation is $50. All memberships are greatly appreciated.
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Thanks for your support!
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YOUR MEMBERSHIP MAKES A DIFFERENCE!
PLEASE JOIN OR RENEW TODAY!!
Dear Friends of Montgomery,
- The mills of Montgomery turned out 1.5 million butter tubs a year in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Would you like to see and feel one? Our Society has one of the few survivors!1922 Advertisement
2025 Survivor!
- Farms flourished here then, but some in Montgomery dreamed of a new life in Western Canada where they could get free, open farm land, and transportation there to boot. Montgomery native George Pease was eager to move west but WWI may have disrupted his plans according to a 1915 letter recently found in the wall of his East Hill (Route 242) home!**
- What did people in Montgomery do for entertainment then? The same wall stash had copies of “The Girls Companion” and “The Youth’s Companion,” periodic newspapers filled with news, literature, advice, and advertisements. These now fragile early 20th century papers evoke long winter evenings reading by kerosene lamp, or perhaps the first electric lights, about the world around us, and probably inspired wanderlust or greater appreciation of our mountain home.
Your Membership pays our operating expenses and helps us with our programs. One such program is collecting, preserving and exhibiting our growing collection of artifacts which now number over 1,100 items. The MHS Board hopes to build a small, secure and weather tight, storage and exhibit building to protect and provide public access to them in the next few years. A full-fledged capital campaign for this effort will kick off this Summer.
You can easily join, or renew your membership, over the internet using the button above, or by mail with the downloadable donor card above. Special donations for our archives project can also be made separately by check or via our home page at the “MHS4SALE” link.
One hundred percent of your donation will be used for our mission. If you have questions or concerns, or items to donate, please drop us a line. As always, thank you for your support.
With appreciation, the Montgomery Historical Society Board of Trustees;
Bob Cummins, Marijke Dollois, Pat Farmer, Mary Garceau, John Kuryloski,
Roger Lichti, Bill McGroarty, Patty Perl, Scott Perry, Elsie Saborowski, & Sue Wilson
** George Pease didn’t make it to western Canada but settled in southern California by 1930 where he lived out the rest of his days. He died in 1968.
The Montgomery Historical Society is a 501.c.3 tax exemptpublic service organization.
Montgomery Historical Society
P.O. Box 47 / Montgomery, VT 05470
pratthall@gmail.com
www.montgomeryhistoricalsociety.org