John Burgis Norton's Leete's Island House in winter. The home of W. H. Norton is located across the street from the "old" Norton house, which was torn down in 1945.
The 300th anniversary of the founding of Guilford was celebrated with a variety of events September 2, 3 and 4, 1939. A firetruck is shown here as part of the Tercentenary Parade procession held Sept. 4, 1939.
Buffalo Bill and Sioux Native American Chiefs are pictured on the steps of the Sachem's Head Hotel. William F. Cody, known as "Buffalo Bill" is on the left in the back row. The Sioux chiefs (left to right) are Daval White Eyes, Long Soldier, Black Fox, Flying Hawk, and Iron Cloud.
Members of the Guilford Battery, circa 1912. Pictured left to right (back row, standing): Charles Kelsey, Richard T. Kelsey, Henry E. Fowler. Middle row (standing): Dwight Griswold, Ralph L. Parker, L. Odell Chittenden, Edward Bishop, Charles Post, George L. Griswold. Front row (seated): Richard Wilcox, Eugene Bristol, William H. Lee, William E. Bishop, William T. Foote, Titus hall, William H. Davis.
The formation of the Guilford Brass Band-- a 20-member ensemble-- led by conductor Vernon Buell was announced in an October 18, 1906 edition of the Shoreline Times. The officers of the band are George Jillson, President; Robert Butler, Secretary and Treasurer; Frank White, Business Manager and Vernon Buell, Conductor. Members of the band are Leroy Bartholomew, Robert Bristol, V.E. Buell, Mr. Burdett, R. B. Butler, L.E. Coulter, Henry Dolph, Raymond Dolph, Edward and Oliver Husted, George Jillson, Ernest Norton, Harry and David Parmelee, George Putney, Clarence Stannard, Henry Tibbals, Fleming and Harry Wall, and Frank M. White. The child in the photo is Merle Jillson, born 1902.
Guilford Savings Bank Corporation, 1992
Pictured standing (left to right): Vaughn Knowles, Dan Reinhardsen, Carter Cooley, John Betts, Kathleen Braren, Win Smith, David Dudley, Bill Loveday, Ralph Brown, Ted Creighton, Jack Kidney (?), Laura Page, Ed Bartlett, Barry Cox, Dick Beatty. Front Row: Gene Bishop, Margaret Livingston, Lev Stone, Russ Waldo, Gil Lombard Jr. (?), Gilbert Lombard Sr., and Logan Page.
Raymond Baldwin, governor of Connecticut, enters the church service at the First Congregational Church for Guilford's Tercentenary Celebration in 1939.
A gathering at the Whitfield House to celebrate the Tercentenary anniversary of Guilford on September 3, 1939. Pictured in front row in costume (left to right): Alice Hill Chittenden, Mary Chittenden Campbell, Anna Chittenden Thayer, Alice Chittenden Smith and husband Fred Smith. Also pictured, the family of Fred Davis, seated at the table, and Charles and Harriet Lee.
Guilford Town Hall, circa 1930-1945, before the building was remodeled in 1947. The town hall was built in 1893 with town offices and a 500-seat hall, complete with stage and dressing rooms.
The northeast corner of Broad Street and Graves Avenue, showing Acadian House in the background, circa 1930-1945.
The Acadian House is one of the oldest buildings in Guilford, built as early as 1670 for Joseph Clay and his wife, Mary Lord. In the 1750's it was inhabited by Acadians living there as refugees from Canada, after France lost the French and Indian War.
Broad Street, First Congregational Church, Parsonage and Spencer Home, circa 1939-1945
The house on the far right was built in 1874 and designed by Henry Austin in the French Second Empire style for Elisha Chapman Bishop. Bishop was a Guilford native who earned his fortune in the Titusville, PA oil boom.
