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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 Corners (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 Corners. 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 Corners ...
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.
For example, a typical abbreviation for Bridgewater Corners: Bridgewater Cors.
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.
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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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 Corners 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 Corners. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Bridgewater Corners:
- Windsor County (The home county of Bridgewater Corners)
- The following are listed by their distance from Bridgewater Corners, with the one closest to Bridgewater Corners listed first.
- Bridgewater
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Bridgewater is located in Windsor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bridgewater
- Population from the 2020 Census: 967 people
- Plymouth
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- 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
- Plymouth
(5 miles [8 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
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Plymouth Union is located in Windsor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plymouth Union
- South Woodstock
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- South Woodstock is located in Windsor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Woodstock
- Prosper
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Prosper is located in Windsor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prosper
- Woodstock
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- South Pomfret
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Reading
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Reading is located in Windsor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reading
- Population from the 2020 Census: 634 people
- Tyson
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Tyson is located in Windsor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tyson
- South Reading
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- South Reading is located in Windsor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Reading
- Addison County
- The following are listed by their distance from Bridgewater Corners, with the one closest to Bridgewater Corners listed first.
- Hancock
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Goshen
(26 miles [41.8 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
(26 miles [41.8 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
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Lower Granville is located in Addison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lower Granville
- Granville
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Granville
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Granville is located in Addison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Granville
- Population from the 2020 Census: 308 people
- Leicester
(29 miles [46.7 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
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Leicester Junction
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Leicester Junction is located in Addison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leicester Junction
- Bennington County
- The following are listed by their distance from Bridgewater Corners, with the one closest to Bridgewater Corners listed first.
- Landgrove
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Landgrove is located in Bennington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Landgrove
- Population from the 2020 Census: 156 people
- Peru
(25 miles [40.2 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
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Landgrove Town Center is located in Bennington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Landgrove Town Center
- Bromley Village
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Bromley Village is located in Bennington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bromley Village
- Dorset
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Dorset is located in Bennington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dorset
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,937 people
- Orange County
- The following are listed by their distance from Bridgewater Corners, with the one closest to Bridgewater Corners listed first.
- South Randolph
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- South Randolph is located in Orange County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Randolph
- Tunbridge
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- South Strafford
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Randolph
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Tunbridge
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Tunbridge is located in Orange County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tunbridge
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,335 people
- Strafford
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- East Randolph
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- East Randolph is located in Orange County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Randolph
- Randolph Center
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Randolph
(24 miles [38.6 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
- Old City
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Old City is located in Orange County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old City
- Strafford
(24 miles [38.6 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
- Union Village
(24 miles [38.6 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 Corners, with the one closest to Bridgewater Corners 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
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Killington Village is located in Rutland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Killington Village
- Killington
(8 miles [12.9 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
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Sherburne is located in Rutland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sherburne
- Telemark Village
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Telemark Village is located in Rutland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Telemark Village
- Shrewsbury
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Shrewsbury is located in Rutland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shrewsbury
- Population from the 2020 Census: 979 people
- Mendon
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- Mendon is located in Rutland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mendon
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,015 people
- Healdville
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Healdville is located in Rutland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Healdville
- Mount Holly
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Mount Holly is located in Rutland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Holly
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,241 people
- Mount Holly
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Bowlsville
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Bowlsville is located in Rutland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowlsville
- Mendon
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Windham County
- The following are listed by their distance from Bridgewater Corners, with the one closest to Bridgewater Corners listed first.
- Londonderry
(26 miles [41.8 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
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Brockways Mills is located in Windham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brockways Mills
- Grafton
(27 miles [43.5 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
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Rockingham
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Windham
(28 miles [45.1 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
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Rockingham
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Rockingham is located in Windham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rockingham
- Population from the 2020 Census: 4,986 people
- Cambridgeport
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Cambridgeport is located in Windham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cambridgeport
- Grafton County (NH)
- The following are listed by their distance from Bridgewater Corners, with the one closest to Bridgewater Corners listed first.
- 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
- Meadow Brook Village
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Meadow Brook Village is located in Grafton County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadow Brook Village
- Pinewood Village
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Pinewood Village is located in Grafton County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinewood Village
- 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
- Hanover
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- 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
(25 miles [40.2 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 Corners, with the one closest to Bridgewater Corners listed first.
- Plainfield
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
- Squag City
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
- Squag City is located in Sullivan County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Squag City
- Mill Village
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
- Mill Village is located in Sullivan County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mill Village
- Cornish
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Balloch
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Balloch is located in Sullivan County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Balloch
- Cornish City
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Cornish City is located in Sullivan County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cornish City
- South Cornish
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- South Cornish is located in Sullivan County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Cornish
- Meriden
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Meriden is located in Sullivan County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meriden
- Claremont
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Croydon
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Croydon is located in Sullivan County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Croydon
- Population from the 2020 Census: 774 people
- Charlestown
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
- Croydon Flat
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
- Croydon Flat is located in Sullivan County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Croydon Flat
- 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 Corners, see our County-by-County Page for Bridgewater Corners.
Cemeteries Near Bridgewater Corners ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Bridgewater Corners.
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 Corners - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Bridgewater Corners covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Bridgewater Corners, with the one closest to Bridgewater Corners listed first.
- Toplift Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- Mt. Pleasant Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Bridgewater Center Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Curtis Hollow Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- Plymouth - Five Corners Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Long Hill Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Mendall Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Bridgewater Hill Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Shaw Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- North Bridgewater Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Plymouth Notch Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Swain Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Continue List (503 more) ...
- Fullerton Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Church of Our Saviour Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Hillside Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
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>
The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Bridgewater Corners had a population of 106 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Bridgewater Corners, with the one closest to Bridgewater Corners listed first.
- Bridgewater
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Plymouth
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- 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
- Plymouth Union
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Plymouth Union is located in Windsor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plymouth Union
- South Woodstock
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- South Woodstock is located in Windsor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Woodstock
- West Woodstock
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- West Woodstock is located in Windsor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Woodstock
- Woodstock
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- South Pomfret
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Tyson
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Tyson is located in Windsor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tyson
- South Reading
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- South Reading is located in Windsor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Reading
- Sherburne
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Sherburne is located in Rutland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sherburne
- North Shrewsbury
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- North Shrewsbury is located in Rutland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Shrewsbury
- Continue List (15 more) ...
- Taftsville
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Barnard
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Felchville
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Felchville is located in Windsor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Felchville
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Bridgewater Corners. See our List of 1890's Communities around Bridgewater Corners.
Newspapers Published in Bridgewater Corners ...
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 Corners.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Bridgewater Corners, 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 Corners.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first visit the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites either 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 Corners:
- 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 Corners, 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Bridgewater Corners) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |