Join us in celebrating 50 years of the Stewart-Swift Research Center with an Archives Open House! Venture behind the scenes of the Sheldon Archives and explore rarely displayed treasures from the archival collection.
Archives on display will include:
Manuscript maps by Middlebury Female Academy students
The first newspaper published in Middlebury (1801)
The first atlas printed in America
The earliest representation of a same-sex couple in America (Charity Bryant and Sylvia Drake)
Charity Bryant and Sylvia Drake, a same-sex couple who lived in Weybridge, VT.
