Schedules & Events

NO IN-PERSON EVENTS DURING THE PANDEMIC

Main Street Museum is opened by appointment from mid-May through October, with business meetings in spring and fall. We open during Cabot's July Fourth Parade. Programs are scheduled in warm weather; we lack central heating. We have many artifacts from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; they typify life in a small Vermont farming town. 

We have  several  albums of photographs and historic documents, including over 1,600 items from the Thomas Osgood, Esq. collection. Thomas Osgood was an early town clerk in Cabot. He served from 1796 to 1832, except for 1822, when Joseph Fisher held the office. When Osgood was unable to serve due to advanced age, his son, Thomas, Jr., was elected and held the office for the next 15 years, resigning just before his death in 1858.

To visit either Main Street Museum or the restored West Hill School, e-mail  us before your visit at cabothistorical@gmail.com. If you want to see specific items, for more information, or to arrange a tour, let us know in advance. We will gladly arrange a visit to either or both museums. We also try to answer genealogical questions about early Cabot families by e-mail.

We want to hear from anyone with a historical program of interest to our public and members.  If you have an idea for such a talk, please contact us by e-mail.

CALENDAR

May:  Main Street museum building open on dates below or by appointment from late May through October. Contact us at cabothistorical@gmail.com to tour either museum. 

Annual Meeting, to be announced.

July 4th - The Cabot Historical Society Museum at 3216 Main Street, opens from 9 a.m. to approximately 1:30 p.m. on July 4th. (We stay open as long as there are visitors.)

The museum has two floors of artifacts from Cabot's agricultural past, including some marketing items from Cabot Creamery's 100+ year history. We also have albums of old photos, Cabot School yearbooks, old wooden voting booths, General Hazen's mess kettle from the Revolutionary War, a restored theater curtain hanging on our stage, and many other items.

We have home-made old fashioned donuts, coffee, and lemonade by donation on the Fourth of July.

 Aug.:  By appointment.

Sept.:  By appointment.

Oct.: - ANNUAL APPLE PIE FESTIVAL, Saturday, after Columbus / Indigenous Peoples' Day, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m., at Cabot School Gym, free admission, free parking, handicapped accessible.   Historical Society museums are closed during the pandemic. The Apple Pie Festival and other in-person events are suspended until further notice.