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What's New?
12-05-2005 Links to Census Records were moved
to Vital Statistics section. Old photograph search was added.
02-02-2006 Photos of Town of Barnet Theater Curtains added.
04-03-2006 Links to search Rootsweb databases have been removed.
06-16-2006 Information added for the old
Barnet Schools.
08-17-2006 Added additional links.
09-09-2006 Search site for Vermont Historical Gazetteer added.
11-06-2006 Barnet Civil War Dedication photo added.
03-03-2008 Old Photograph Search Site updated. Town office information updated.
12-16-2008 Links to Topozone maps changed to TopoQuest.
01-14-2009 Historical Society information updated.
04-03-2009 New Town Clerk added, replacing William Hoar who retired after more than 30 years service.
06-15-2009 Vital indexes search reinstated.
07-16-2009 Maps changed to TopoQuest.
Guest Book
Your comments and suggestions will be most welcome and will help me improve the site. Please restrict your postings to topics relative to genealogy.
Requests for information regarding wills should be directed to the Caledonia County Court Clerk whose address is found below. Requests for information regarding vital records, land records, etc should be directed to the Town Clerk's Office as listed below.
Barnet Guest Book
Town Government
It should be noted that Town Clerks as a rule no longer will perform research but will assist researchers when they visit the town offices.
Benjamin Heisholt, Clerk-Treasurer
1743 US Route 5 South
P.O. Box 15
Barnet, VT
05821
Barnet, VT 05821
Tel: 802-633-2256
Fax: 802-633-4315
Website: Town of Barnet
Email: Town of Barnet
Mon - Fri 9:00 - 12:00 and 1:00 - 4:30
Listers: Same
Zoning: Same
Fees: Certified
Copies - $7.00 each
Non-Certified Copies - $2.00 each
Caledonia Probate Court
P.O. Box 406, 27 Main Street - St. Johnsbury, VT 05819 Phone: (802) 748-6605.
Barnet Library
Barnet Public Library, 147 Church Street, P. O. Box 34,
Barnet, VT 05821
Sherry Tolle, Librarian 802-633-4436
Hours: M, 6:30 - 8:30 PM, Tu, W, Th - 12:30 to 4:30, Sa 10:00
AM - 2:00 PM
Email: barnetpl@charterinternet.com
Barnet School, 163 Kid Row,
Barnet, VT 05821
Mary Prior, mprior@barnet.K12.vt.us 802-633-4978 FAX: 802-633-4497
Hours: M-F 7:45 AM - 4:00 PM; Summer Hours vary
Barnet/McIndoes Academy, 37 Academy Lane, P.O. Box 66,
McIndoe Falls, VT 05050
Cathy Thomas, Librarian
Hours: Tu 1:00 - 7:00 PM, Th 9:00 AM - 12):00
Noon, 3:00 - 6:00 PM
Barnet History
Early History
Excerpt from Child's
1887 Gazetteer
Biographies of Early Settlers
Revolutionary War Soldiers
War of 1812
Mexican War
Barnet Landowners in 1858
Barnet Civil War Volunteers
Spanish-American War
World War I
World War II
Korean Police Action
Vietnam Conflict
Barnet Historical Society
Goodwillie House, 26 Goodwillie Road, Barnet Center, VTMailing Address: 802 Warden Road, Barnet, VT 05821
Phone: 802-633-2325
Contact Person: Barbara Warden, President
Email: Barnet Historical Society
Hours and Admission: Fall Foliage weekends and by appointment.
The museum is located in a house reputedly used as a station for the Underground Railroad during the Civil War. Many of the items were made and used in Barnet. There are quilts, clothing, 19th-century household furnishings, tools, and photographs.
Barnet Stage Curtains
The O. L. Story Company of Boston produced only eight Painted Stage Curtains. Barnet is fortunate in possessing three of these curtains. The Vermont Painted Theater Curtains, Chris Hadsel of Burlington, Project Director, is a Project of the Vermont Museum and Gallery Alliance of Woodstock, VT. They have located 143 painted theater curtains in the State of Vermont. During the winter of 2004-2005, three such curtains were professionally restored by Vermont Painted Theater Curtains The curtains at the Barnet Town Hall and at McIndoes Academy were rehung after restoration. The curtain at the Lakeview Grange in West Barnet is currently in the Fairbanks Museum in St. Johnsbury, VT but will be returned and rehung at the Grange Hall. The curtain at McIA is the only curtain found in a school.
The curtains may be seen by clicking on one to the following thumbnail photos:
Town Hall McIA Lakeview Grange
Barnet Vital Statistics
1790 Census
1800 Census
1810 Census
1820 Census
1790 Orange County
Barnet Births to year 2001
Barnet Burials to year 2001
Barnet Marriages to year 2001
Barnet Deaths to year 2001
Barnet Civil Unions to year 2001
Census reporting ends with the 1820 census. There were over 50 separate items of data gathered in the 1830 census. That fact and that names are not in alphabetical order make it impractical to report later years.
04-03-2006 Homeland Security has indicated that to prevent identity theft, vital record information younger than 70 years should not be accessible to the public. For this reason, I have removed the links to search vital record information.
Barnet Schools
Early History
McIndoes Academy
Barnet College Graduates
Locations of Barnet Schools of the Past
Barnet Churches
The First Congregational Church of Barnet
The United Presbyterian Church (Barnet Center)
East Barnet
The McIndoes Falls Congregational Church
The Passumpsic Baptist Church
The Reformed Presbyterian Church ("Walter Harvey")
The First Presbyterian Church of West Barnet
Cemetery Information
Digging Deep Unearthing the Mysteries of Burial and Cemetery Laws
Caledonia County Cemeteries Courtesy of Paul DesTroismaisons
