The Regional History Room (RHR) at Bennington Museum is open Monday, Thursday, and Friday afternoons, 1-4pm (by appointment when the Museum is closed January-March: library@benningtonmuseum.org).

The library collection which is managed by the Bennington Historical Society (BHS) is the region’s most comprehensive resource on the history of Vermont and genealogy of New England and Vermont families. It includes resources not found online such as rare books, family history files, maps, newspapers, and archival resources in the Museum’s collection.

The RHR is staffed by knowledgeable volunteers who will be happy to help you with your Bennington-related research. The library is non-circulating and access is free.

Questions?  Please email library@benningtonmuseum.org

• Library Books 
• RHR Research Files
• RHR Research Files Index

• BHS Research Projects
• The BHS Newsletter
• Early Town Records (Proprietor’s Records)
• Old First Church Records
• Harwood Diaries
• Walloomsack Review Articles and Index
• Scholarly Essays 
• The Fourteenth State

• Ancestry.com and Newspapers.com (free to Vermont residents through the myVermont.gov portal)
• Vermont History (journal, 2000-present)
• Vermont Historical Society
• Digital Collections at the University of Vermont
• Internet Archive 
• Vermont Genealogy Library
• Genealogical Society of Vermont