Articles

Researching the Tolland County Temporary Home for Children
1887 article about the first Home in Vernon Center
Views of the TCTH in Vernon Center
Superintendents and Matrons of the TCTH
"Researching Residents of CT County Temporary Homes" by Chris Klemmer
"County Home System and County Homes" Rockville 2/24/1931
"Connecticut Poor Law Aimed to Care for the Needy" Connecticut History. Org 11/26/2019

"Vernon's First Meetinghouse 1723-1836" by Jon Roe from The Tankerhoosen

History of the first church built when Vernon was still part of Bolton, Connecticut.

"Christian Sharps Trout Farm and Christian Sharps and the Sharps Rifle" by Jon Roe from The Tankerhoosen     

“When Christy Mathewson Pitched for Rockville.” by Earl Yost. The Manchester Herald. 7/17/1997.

"Gunther Property and the Tolland Agricultural Center"

This document was prepared in June 2012 by Eastern Connecticut Environmental Review Team of the Eastern Connecticut Resource Conservation & Development Area, Inc. for the Planning and Zoning Commission of Vernon, Connecticut and the Inland Wetlands Commission of Tolland, Connecticut.

Vernon's Civil War monuments by Jon Roe from The Tankerhoosen

Brief descriptions of monuments and building honoring Civil War soldiers

The barn at Meetinghouse Hill by Jon Roe from The Tankerhoosen

Information about the red barn along Route 30 that sits at the entrance to the Meetinghouse Hill path.

Granite Mills in Vernon CT by Jon Roe from The Tankerhoosen

Information about the little-known Granite Mills site in Vernon.

Vernon's Meetinghouse Hill by Jon Roe from The Tankerhoosen

Meetinghouse Hill along Route 30 in Vernon, CT- its History and Plans for Preservation as Open Space.