History Snippets

  • The gazebo was a bicentennial project to replace a previous one that was destroyed in the hurricane of 1938. It was built by residents in 1976 as a state bicentennial project. Here’s a link to the 1985 Wheelock Bicentennial Edition, edited by Allis Beaumont Reid, published by the Wheelock Historical Commission. Read more.

  • View the 1915 dedication souvenir for the Old Red Schoolhouse Association. The booklet’s subtitle is “Those Were the Happy Days.” Biographies and photographs of the Association’s leaders and former teachers are followed by nostalgic verse. There are photos of other schoolhouses in South Wheelock that were no longer in use at that time, and lists of students who attended since 1848. Read more.

  • Shared by great grand-daughter Rachel Cree Sherman: "It was kitty corner to the end of the green just at the bottom of the hill (across Sutton Road from Town Hall). There was a ballroom on the third floor. My great grandfather had three boys who played in an orchestra there and other places in the area.” Read more.

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  • Here is a link to the internet archive where you can read in full the 1961 book, Town of Wheelock : Vermont's Gift to Dartmouth College, by Eleanor Jones Hutchinson: https://archive.org/details/townofwheelockve00hutc/page/n7/mode/2up

  • Like many Vermont towns, Wheelock completed a special project celebrating the state’s bicentennial in 1976. The Wheelock Bicentennial Edition, edited by Allis Beaumont Reid, was published in 1985 by the Wheelock Historical Commission.