Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:
- That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
- We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
- On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.
By learning about Bridgewater Center (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.
As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Bridgewater Center. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.
Name Variations for Bridgewater Center ...
When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.
Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might occur.
For example, a typical abbreviation for Bridgewater Center: Bridgewater Ctr. (or less commonly used: Bridgewater Cen., Bridgewater Cent. or Bridgewater Cntr.)
You might see Bridgewater Centre instead of Bridgewater Center.
You might be interested in other communities that are also named Bridgewater Center. More information can be found on our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Bridgewater Center.
If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.
For more information about how community names might have been affected by the Board of Geographic Names (BGN), see our page about Placename Rules.
Neighboring Counties ...
When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.
For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.
So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived: their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the west contained birth and death records; the county to the south contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.
If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.
Bridgewater Center is located in Windsor County.
To see how the shape of Vermont's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Windsor County: Grafton (NH), Sullivan (NH), Addison, Bennington, Orange, Rutland & Windham.
Below are the counties that are near Bridgewater Center. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Bridgewater Center:
- Windsor County (The home county of Bridgewater Center)
- The following are listed by their distance from Bridgewater Center, with the one closest to Bridgewater Center listed first.
- Bridgewater
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- Bridgewater is located in Windsor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bridgewater
- Population from the 2020 Census: 967 people
- Woodstock
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Woodstock is located in Windsor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodstock
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,911 people
- Prosper
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Prosper is located in Windsor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prosper
- South Pomfret
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Plymouth
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Woodstock
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- South Woodstock
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- South Woodstock is located in Windsor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Woodstock
- Plymouth
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Plymouth is located in Windsor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plymouth
- Population from the 2020 Census: 599 people
- Plymouth Union
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Plymouth Union is located in Windsor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plymouth Union
- Barnard
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Barnard is located in Windsor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barnard
- Population from the 2020 Census: 929 people
- Barnard
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Pomfret
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Pomfret is located in Windsor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pomfret
- Population from the 2020 Census: 849 people
- Addison County
- The following are listed by their distance from Bridgewater Center, with the one closest to Bridgewater Center listed first.
- Hancock
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Goshen
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Goshen is located in Addison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goshen
- Population from the 2020 Census: 165 people
- Hancock
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Hancock is located in Addison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hancock
- Population from the 2020 Census: 334 people
- Lower Granville
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Lower Granville is located in Addison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lower Granville
- Granville
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Granville is located in Addison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Granville
- Population from the 2020 Census: 308 people
- Granville
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Leicester
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Leicester is located in Addison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leicester
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,096 people
- Leicester
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Leicester Junction
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Leicester Junction is located in Addison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leicester Junction
- Ripton
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Ripton is located in Addison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ripton
- Population from the 2020 Census: 566 people
- Salisbury
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Salisbury is located in Addison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salisbury
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,105 people
- Bennington County
- The following are listed by their distance from Bridgewater Center, with the one closest to Bridgewater Center listed first.
- Landgrove
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Landgrove is located in Bennington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Landgrove
- Population from the 2020 Census: 156 people
- Peru
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Peru is located in Bennington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peru
- Population from the 2020 Census: 355 people
- Landgrove Town Center
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Landgrove Town Center is located in Bennington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Landgrove Town Center
- Orange County
- The following are listed by their distance from Bridgewater Center, with the one closest to Bridgewater Center listed first.
- South Randolph
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- South Randolph is located in Orange County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Randolph
- Tunbridge
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- Randolph
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- South Strafford
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- Tunbridge
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- Tunbridge is located in Orange County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tunbridge
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,335 people
- East Randolph
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- East Randolph is located in Orange County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Randolph
- Randolph Center
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- Randolph
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- Randolph is located in Orange County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Randolph
- Population from the 2020 Census: 4,558 people
- Strafford
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Strafford is located in Orange County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Strafford
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,058 people
- Strafford
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Old City
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Old City is located in Orange County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old City
- Union Village
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Union Village is located in Orange County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union Village
- Rutland County
- The following are listed by their distance from Bridgewater Center, with the one closest to Bridgewater Center listed first.
- West Bridgewater
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- West Bridgewater is located in Rutland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Bridgewater
- Killington Village
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Killington Village is located in Rutland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Killington Village
- Killington
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Killington is located in Rutland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Killington
- Population from the 2020 Census: 749 people
- Sherburne
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Sherburne is located in Rutland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sherburne
- Telemark Village
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Telemark Village is located in Rutland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Telemark Village
- Shrewsbury
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Shrewsbury is located in Rutland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shrewsbury
- Population from the 2020 Census: 979 people
- Mendon
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Mendon is located in Rutland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mendon
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,015 people
- Pittsfield
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Healdville
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Healdville is located in Rutland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Healdville
- Mendon
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Chittenden
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Chittenden is located in Rutland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chittenden
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,170 people
- East Pittsford
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- East Pittsford is located in Rutland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Pittsford
- Windham County
- The following are listed by their distance from Bridgewater Center, with the one closest to Bridgewater Center listed first.
- Londonderry
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Londonderry is located in Windham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Londonderry
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,639 people
- Brockways Mills
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Brockways Mills is located in Windham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brockways Mills
- Grafton
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Grafton is located in Windham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grafton
- Population from the 2020 Census: 674 people
- Grafton
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Rockingham
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Windham
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Windham is located in Windham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Windham
- Population from the 2020 Census: 396 people
- Windham
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Grafton County (NH)
- The following are listed by their distance from Bridgewater Center, with the one closest to Bridgewater Center listed first.
- Meadow Brook Village
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Meadow Brook Village is located in Grafton County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadow Brook Village
- Pinewood Village
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Pinewood Village is located in Grafton County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinewood Village
- West Lebanon
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- West Lebanon is located in Grafton County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Lebanon
- Hanover
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Sachem Village
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Sachem Village is located in Grafton County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sachem Village
- Lebanon
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Etna
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Etna is located in Grafton County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Etna
- Mascoma
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- Mascoma is located in Grafton County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mascoma
- Montcalm
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- Montcalm is located in Grafton County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Montcalm
- Enfield
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Lower Shaker Village
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Lower Shaker Village is located in Grafton County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lower Shaker Village
- Upper Shaker Village
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Upper Shaker Village is located in Grafton County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Upper Shaker Village
- Sullivan County (NH)
- The following are listed by their distance from Bridgewater Center, with the one closest to Bridgewater Center listed first.
- Squag City
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Squag City is located in Sullivan County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Squag City
- Plainfield
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
- Mill Village
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Mill Village is located in Sullivan County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mill Village
- Cornish
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Balloch
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Balloch is located in Sullivan County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Balloch
- Cornish City
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Cornish City is located in Sullivan County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cornish City
- Meriden
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Meriden is located in Sullivan County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meriden
- South Cornish
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
- South Cornish is located in Sullivan County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Cornish
- Claremont
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Grantham
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Croydon Flat
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Croydon Flat is located in Sullivan County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Croydon Flat
- Croydon
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Croydon is located in Sullivan County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Croydon
- Population from the 2020 Census: 774 people
- Washington County (NY)
- Hampton
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Hampton is located in Washington County (NY)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hampton
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Bridgewater Center, see our County-by-County Page for Bridgewater Center.
Cemeteries Near Bridgewater Center ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Bridgewater Center.
This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.
Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Bridgewater Center - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Bridgewater Center covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Bridgewater Center, with the one closest to Bridgewater Center listed first.
- Bridgewater Center Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the west)
- Mt. Pleasant Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- Mendall Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Toplift Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Curtis Hollow Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- North Bridgewater Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Bridgewater Hill Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Long Hill Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Hillside Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Plymouth - Five Corners Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Shaw Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Highland Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Continue List (502 more) ...
- Prosper Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- South Barnard Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Anthony Family Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
Nearby Communities in 1895 ...
We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<2>
While we didn't find Bridgewater Center in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Bridgewater Center.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Bridgewater Center, with the one closest to Bridgewater Center listed first.
- Bridgewater Corners
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- Bridgewater
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- West Bridgewater
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- West Bridgewater is located in Rutland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Bridgewater
- West Woodstock
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- West Woodstock is located in Windsor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Woodstock
- Plymouth
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- South Pomfret
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Plymouth Union
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Plymouth Union is located in Windsor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plymouth Union
- South Woodstock
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- South Woodstock is located in Windsor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Woodstock
- Woodstock
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Sherburne
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Sherburne is located in Rutland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sherburne
- Barnard
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Taftsville
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Continue List (15 more) ...
- Pomfret
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Pomfret is located in Windsor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pomfret
- North Shrewsbury
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- North Shrewsbury is located in Rutland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Shrewsbury
- Tyson
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Tyson is located in Windsor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tyson
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Bridgewater Center. See our List of 1890's Communities around Bridgewater Center.
Newspapers Published in Bridgewater Center ...
An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.
Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 29 newspapers that have been published in the area around Bridgewater Center.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Bridgewater Center, there are papers which were published within 17 miles [27.4 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Bridgewater Center.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These professional and volunteer websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.
To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Bridgewater Center:
- Websites specific to Vermont
- Pages specific to Windsor County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Addison County
- Bennington County
- Orange County
- Rutland County
- Windham County
- Grafton County
- Sullivan County
- Washington County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Vermont
Footnotes ...
| <1> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <2> | We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Bridgewater Center, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <3> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Bridgewater Center) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |