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Peacham Historical Association The Peacham Historical Association (PHA) is one of the oldest historical societies in Vermont.

Founded in 1916, its missions is to identify, collect, preserve and make accessible the history of Peacham, VT and to encourage interest in Peacham’s history through talks, exhibits, publications and other activities

03/28/2026

Mystery photo! This photo of a Peacham barn was sent to PHA—does anyone recognize it? Still standing? We’d love to hear from you!

03/14/2026

Curious about the history of your Peacham home? Learn how to research and document your home’s past. Read letters written by the Parker family in the 1850s to relatives who had journeyed to the California gold fields. And learn about the Peacham Inn, which flourished at the town’s center during the 1980s.

All this and more in the Winter issue of the Peacham Patriot, PHA’s biannual newsletter, now available on our website.https://www.peachamhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Patriot-2025-Winter.pdf

Want to receive the Patriot in your mailbox? Join us as a member and support the important work we do preserving Peacham’s past. https://www.peachamhistorical.org/support-pha/

03/05/2026

Happy 235th Birthday, Vermont! On March 4th, 1791, Vermont became the 14th state in the United States of America. The Elkins Tavern, built in 1787 by settler Jonathan Elkins when the fate of the area—part of New Hampshire, part of New York, or independent republic?—was still in question, is the only building in Peacham still standing from that time period.

03/02/2026

In the 19th century, South Peacham functioned as a small industrial hub, with a grist-mill, box factory, and wagon shop. Of these buildings, only the South Peacham store (visible in the top left of the first photo) remains. The second photo taken in 1890 shows a woman walking towards the box factory and the third shows the waterfall between the two buildings, running below South Main Street. The grist mill was repurposed by Temple Paye as an automobile repair shop until the floor collapsed in the 1930s.

02/22/2026

Even in 1910, Vermont winters were famous!
This “Winter in New England” postcard from 1910 depicts a Peacham home and the Ewells Hollow Schoolhouse. This photograph was taken on the Peacham Danville Road, just north of the East Peacham Road and Ewells Mill Road. Not much has changed!

02/13/2026

This photo of an early 1900s postcard shows John Chandler of Peacham with his snow roller and team of horses. Snow rollers packed the snow down on roads for the convenience of sleighs and sleds. Peacham used snow rollers beginning around 1888 until 1938. Peacham purchased its first town snow plow in 1934.

Peacham’s Snow Roller Barn, where rollers were originally stored during the off-season, opened as a museum in 2015. It houses a number of snow rollers from towns across Vermont, including neighboring Barnet, and is open to visitors on July 4th, Fall Foliage Day, and during Winter Carnival.

📷: gift to the Peacham Historical Association from the Ron Crisman estate.

02/08/2026

The Ashbel Goodenough Blacksmith Shop was open for demonstrations yesterday during Peacham’s Winter Carnival! The PHA purchased the 1820s-era brick building in 1997 to preserve this rare, functional relic of the town's industrial past. It was great to see so many curious young people observing and learning as PHA volunteers manned the forge and gave visitors a glimpse of 19th century craftsmanship.

02/06/2026

A 1910 postcard photograph of East Peacham, which was known for many years as Peacham Hollow. The original flat-roofed general store still remains today at the foot of Old Cemetery Road, but many other buildings are long gone. At one time, East Peacham was a vibrant community and included a blacksmith shop, sawmill, tannery, tavern and common school.

See anything that looks familiar? Have stories or similar images to share?

01/28/2026

Milk used to be delivered to Peacham by the Gordon E. Fleming Dairy. Gordon Fleming was a farmer and dairyman who grew up in Waterford. He was born in 1911 and eventually managed a 700 acre farm in St. Johnsbury from 1943 to 1974. These bottles are considered quite rare. Note that both raw and pasteurized milk was offered, according to the embossed label. Do you remember getting milk delivered?

11/07/2025

PHA will be at the Peacham Corner Guild Christmas show upstairs at the Town Hall today 10-6 and Saturday 10-4 — come get all of your Peacham-related books, cards, and more!

08/06/2025

Please join us at the Peacham Library tonight, Wednesday, August 6th, at 6:30pm for PHA’s Annual Meeting. Our speaker this year will be writer and genealogical researcher Erin Moulton, who will give a talk “Recipe for Success: Finding Women Through Community Cookbooks,” exploring the history and family stories woven through community and church cookbooks.

Erin will speak at 7pm following the business portion of the meeting and we’ll finish the evening with our traditional selection of historical pies!

Address

P. O. Box 101
Peacham, VT
05862

Telephone

+18025923049

Website

http://peachamhistorical.org/

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