South Hero Historical Society: November 2025

Dr. Robinson's 3-4 classroom blog from 2012-2016

The students in Dr. Robinson's 3-4 Team studied South Hero History for 6 years and took many field trips around town.

Click on this link to see where the students went around town and what townsfolk they met along the way.

Notice

At the end of 2018 Lake Champlain Access Television [LCATV] started filming our presentations. Their output is 2 to 4 times sharper than the videos I was putting up. That means it takes a little longer to get the video to start. [The reason I reduced the quality level of my videos.] Their production is different than mine and you will notice that immediately.
When you click on a video, it starts to load. It will take about 30 seconds [an eternity when you are waiting] to start playing. The speakers will start to sound and the video will look like it is not running for about 23 seconds. LCATV puts up an identification POSTER for those 23 seconds. Don't be alarmed, it is running if you can hear the sound.

The old WEB guy

Monday, November 3, 2025

SHHS Presents: Taking Care of the Roads with John Roy and Bernita Tourville

On March 2025, Click here for a video of John Roy and Bernita Tourville sharing stories of taking care of the roads in South Hero.

John has been road commisioner for over. years.

Bernita's husband Junior Tourville was raod commisioner from. to .

SHHS Presents: The History of South Heroe Island

Click here for a link to the LCATV recording of "The History of South Heroe Island" presented on October. 21st by the South Hero Historical Society

SHHS PRESENTS: The Early History of the South Heroe Island (1775-1800) 6:30 PM at Worthen Library Oct. 21, 2025 Presenter: Jim Hoag

On Tuesday, Oct. 21st, The South Hero Historical Society shared with us research into the early history and European settlement of what is now the towns of South Hero and Grand Isle. Did the Green Mountain Boys settle the islands? Who gave them the land and why? Where did other settlers come from and why? What hardships were overcome living here? How did South Hero become a community that to this day remains a place where people feel connected, take care of each other, and always appreciate crossing the sandbar bridge and “coming home.”

We went back in time and appreciated how our ancestors did what they did so we can do what we do! All ages are always invited to our programs. Refreshments were served.

Hyde Log Cabin (1783) is representative of homes built during the 1775-1800 time period in the islands. (Pic courtesy of Grand Isle Historical Society)

Caption for the picture of the map: South Hero original land plots granted to the Green Mountain Boys (Pic courtesy of South Hero Bicentennial Museum)