Cindy Butler Presents
“A Sense of Place: The James C. Colgate Family”
Ada Paresky Education Center of the Bennington Museum.
Free and Open to the Public

James Colby Colgate was one of Bennington’s most distinguished part time residence. He was a lawyer and stockbroker with a home on Park Avenue. Bennington, Vermont held a special draw for James C. Colgate and he, and his family, spent extensive time in their “cottage”, Ben Venue on Mount Anthony Road. He also owned and operated Fillmore Farm, a 3,000 acre farm in Old Bennington where he raised milk cows and prize winning horned Dorset Sheep. He was very generous to the village of Old Bennington, paving a stretch of road which is now part of Route 9 and giving money for the purchase of the old Saint Francis de Sales Church to create the Bennington Museum.

Cindy Butler has spent the last few years researching the J.C. Colgate Family and the time they spent in Bennington.  She is in the process of writing a biography of the Colgate family. She will share some of her research about the immigration of Colgate’s parents, his marriage to Hope Conkling and the choices their four daughters made in their lives, but most of all their impact on Bennington.