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 Pownal (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 Pownal. 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.
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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.
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 north 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.
Pownal is located in Bennington 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 Bennington County : Berkshire (MA) , Franklin (MA) , Rensselaer (NY) , Washington (NY) , Rutland , Windham & Windsor .
Below are the counties that are near Pownal. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Pownal:
Bennington County (The home county of Pownal)
The following are listed by their distance from Pownal, with the one closest to Pownal listed first.
Pownal Center (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
Pownal Center is located in Bennington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pownal Center Stamford (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
Stamford is located in Bennington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stamford Population from the 2020 Census: 809 people
Bennington (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
Bennington is located in Bennington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bennington Population from the 2020 Census: 14,897 people
Bennington (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
Old Bennington (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
Old Bennington is located in Bennington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Bennington Population from the 2020 Census: 128 people
Stamford (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
Paper Mill Village (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
Paper Mill Village is located in Bennington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paper Mill Village Woodford Hollow (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
Woodford Hollow is located in Bennington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodford Hollow Woodford (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
Woodford is located in Bennington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodford Population from the 2020 Census: 398 people
Woodford (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
North Bennington (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
North Bennington is located in Bennington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Bennington Population from the 2020 Census: 1,694 people
South Shaftsbury (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
South Shaftsbury is located in Bennington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Shaftsbury Windham County
The following are listed by their distance from Pownal, with the one closest to Pownal listed first.
Whitingham (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
Whitingham is located in Windham County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whitingham Population from the 2020 Census: 1,271 people
Wilmington (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
Wilmington is located in Windham County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilmington Population from the 2020 Census: 1,786 people
Wilmington (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
Somerset (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
Somerset is located in Windham County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Somerset Population from the 2020 Census: 3 people
Jacksonville (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
Whitingham (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
West Dover (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
West Dover is located in Windham County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Dover West Halifax (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
Dover (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
Dover is located in Windham County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dover Population from the 2020 Census: 1,057 people
Halifax (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
Halifax is located in Windham County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Halifax Podunk (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
Podunk is located in Windham County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Podunk Stratton (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
Stratton is located in Windham County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stratton Berkshire County (MA)
The following are listed by their distance from Pownal, with the one closest to Pownal listed first.
Williamstown (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
Williamstown is located in Berkshire County (MA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Williamstown Population from the 2020 Census: 7,631 people
Greylock (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
Greylock is located in Berkshire County (MA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greylock North Adams (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
North Adams is located in Berkshire County (MA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Adams Population from the 2020 Census: 12,737 people
Briggsville (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
Briggsville is located in Berkshire County (MA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Briggsville Zylonite (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
Zylonite is located in Berkshire County (MA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zylonite Renfrew (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
Renfrew is located in Berkshire County (MA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Renfrew New Ashford (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
New Ashford is located in Berkshire County (MA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Ashford Population from the 2020 Census: 223 people
Adams (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
Adams is located in Berkshire County (MA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adams Population from the 2020 Census: 7,955 people
Florida (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
Florida is located in Berkshire County (MA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Florida Population from the 2020 Census: 711 people
Arnoldville (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
Arnoldville is located in Berkshire County (MA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arnoldville Town Crest Village (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
Town Crest Village is located in Berkshire County (MA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Town Crest Village Drury (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
Drury is located in Berkshire County (MA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Drury Franklin County (MA)
The following are listed by their distance from Pownal, with the one closest to Pownal listed first.
Monroe (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
Monroe is located in Franklin County (MA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monroe Population from the 2020 Census: 115 people
Monroe Bridge (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
Monroe Bridge is located in Franklin County (MA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monroe Bridge Rowe (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
Rowe is located in Franklin County (MA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rowe Population from the 2020 Census: 389 people
North Heath (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
North Heath is located in Franklin County (MA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Heath Charlemont (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
Charlemont is located in Franklin County (MA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Charlemont Population from the 2020 Census: 1,231 people
Dell (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
Dell is located in Franklin County (MA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dell Heath (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
Heath is located in Franklin County (MA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heath Population from the 2020 Census: 691 people
Hawley (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
Hawley is located in Franklin County (MA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hawley Population from the 2020 Census: 335 people
West Hawley (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
West Hawley is located in Franklin County (MA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Hawley Buckland (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
Buckland is located in Franklin County (MA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buckland Population from the 2020 Census: 1,851 people
Elm Grove (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
Elm Grove is located in Franklin County (MA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elm Grove Foundry Village (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
Foundry Village is located in Franklin County (MA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Foundry Village Hampshire County (MA)
The following are listed by their distance from Pownal, with the one closest to Pownal listed first.
Plainfield (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
Plainfield is located in Hampshire County (MA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plainfield Population from the 2020 Census: 663 people
Cummington (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
Cummington is located in Hampshire County (MA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cummington Population from the 2020 Census: 873 people
Swift River (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
Swift River is located in Hampshire County (MA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Swift River Worthington Corners (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
Worthington Corners is located in Hampshire County (MA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Worthington Corners Worthington (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Worthington is located in Hampshire County (MA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Worthington Population from the 2020 Census: 1,176 people
Albany County (NY)
The following are listed by their distance from Pownal, with the one closest to Pownal listed first.
Cohoes (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
Green Island (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
Watervliet (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
Watervliet is located in Albany County (NY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Watervliet Population from the 2020 Census: 9,807 people
Former names for Watervliet:
Gibbonsville Port Schuyler West Troy Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Watervliet <1>
Menands (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
Latham (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
Loudonville (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
Newtonville (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
Albany (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
West Albany (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
West Albany is located in Albany County (NY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Albany Glenmont (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
Roessleville (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Columbia County (NY)
The following are listed by their distance from Pownal, with the one closest to Pownal listed first.
New Britain ‑ Historic(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
New Britain is located in Columbia County (NY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Britain Riders Mills (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Riders Mills is located in Columbia County (NY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riders Mills Canaan (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
Canaan Center (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
Canaan Center is located in Columbia County (NY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canaan Center North Chatham (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
North Chatham is located in Columbia County (NY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Chatham Rensselaer County (NY)
The following are listed by their distance from Pownal, with the one closest to Pownal listed first.
Petersburg Junction (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
Petersburg Junction is located in Rensselaer County (NY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Petersburg Junction Hoosick (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
Hoosick Falls (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
Potter Hill (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
Potter Hill is located in Rensselaer County (NY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Potter Hill Berlin (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
Berlin is located in Rensselaer County (NY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Berlin Walloomsac (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
Walloomsac is located in Rensselaer County (NY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walloomsac Center Berlin (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
Center Berlin is located in Rensselaer County (NY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Center Berlin Hoosick Junction (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
Hoosick Junction is located in Rensselaer County (NY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoosick Junction Grafton (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
Boyntonville (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
Boyntonville is located in Rensselaer County (NY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boyntonville Eagle Bridge (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
Pittstown (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
Pittstown is located in Rensselaer County (NY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pittstown Saratoga County (NY)
The following are listed by their distance from Pownal, with the one closest to Pownal listed first.
Waterford (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
Stillwater (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
Halfmoon (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
Mechanicville (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
Stillwater Center (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Stillwater Center is located in Saratoga County (NY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stillwater Center Halfmoon Beach (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
Halfmoon Beach is located in Saratoga County (NY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Halfmoon Beach Willow Glen (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
Willow Glen is located in Saratoga County (NY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow Glen Ketchums Corners (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
Ketchums Corners is located in Saratoga County (NY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ketchums Corners Schuylerville (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
Victory Mills (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
Clifton Park (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
Coons (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
Coons is located in Saratoga County (NY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coons Washington County (NY)
The following are listed by their distance from Pownal, with the one closest to Pownal listed first.
White Creek (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
Center White Creek (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
Center White Creek is located in Washington County (NY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Center White Creek Cambridge (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
Center Cambridge (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
Center Cambridge is located in Washington County (NY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Center Cambridge Coila (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
Coila is located in Washington County (NY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coila Anaquassacook (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
Anaquassacook is located in Washington County (NY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anaquassacook Fly Summit (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
Fly Summit is located in Washington County (NY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fly Summit Archdale (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
Archdale is located in Washington County (NY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Archdale Crandall Corners (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
Crandall Corners is located in Washington County (NY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crandall Corners North Easton (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
North Easton is located in Washington County (NY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Easton Battenville (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
Battenville is located in Washington County (NY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Battenville Greenwich (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
Greenwich is located in Washington County (NY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenwich Population from the 2020 Census: 1,698 people
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Pownal, see our County-by-County Page for Pownal .
Cemeteries Near Pownal ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Pownal.
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 Pownal - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Pownal covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Pownal, with the one closest to Pownal listed first.
Dunn - Ell Card Lot (Less than 2 miles to the north)
Pownal Center Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
Oak Hill Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
Sherman Yard Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
Sherman Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
Perry Thompson Farm Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
Joseph Barber Farm Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
Lovett Yard Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
Reuben Jepson Farm Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
Towsley Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
Gardner Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
Potter Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
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Bushnell Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
North Pownal Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
Edgar Rathburn Farm Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 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.<3>
While we didn't find Pownal in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Pownal.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Pownal, with the one closest to Pownal listed first.
Pownal Center (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
Pownal Center is located in Bennington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pownal Center Pownal (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
North Pownal (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
North Pownal is located in Bennington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Pownal Williamstown (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
Williamstown is located in Berkshire County (MA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Williamstown Population from the 2020 Census: 7,631 people
Petersburg (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
Blackinton (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
Blackinton is located in Berkshire County (MA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blackinton Greylock (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
Greylock is located in Berkshire County (MA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greylock Bennington (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
Petersburg Junction (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
Petersburg Junction is located in Rensselaer County (NY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Petersburg Junction North Petersburg (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
North Petersburg is located in Rensselaer County (NY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Petersburg Sweets Corner (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
Sweets Corner is located in Berkshire County (MA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sweets Corner North Adams (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
North Adams is located in Berkshire County (MA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Adams Population from the 2020 Census: 12,737 people
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Stamford (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
Hoosick (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
South Williamstown (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
South Williamstown is located in Berkshire County (MA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Williamstown
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Pownal. See our List of 1890's Communities around Pownal .
Newspapers Published in Pownal ...
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 52 newspapers that have been published in the area around Pownal.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Pownal, there are papers which were published within 19 miles [30.6 km]<4> Extended Newspaper List for Pownal.
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 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 Pownal:
Websites specific to Vermont Pages specific to Bennington County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Windham County Berkshire County Franklin County Hampshire County Albany County Columbia County Rensselaer County Saratoga County Washington County Cemetery Information and Directories for Vermont Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Pownal. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page .
The official website for State of Vermont: https://www.vermont.gov/
Footnotes ...
<1> While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com . 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 Pownal, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. 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 from Point A (ie- Pownal) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.