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Former youngest town in America!

Ripton Historical Society is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to engage the community in seeking out, collecting, preserving, restoring, and disseminating materials, records, artifacts, and other aspects of Ripton’s history.  RHS invites members from a broad range of historical interests and shall be representative of all age groups, from elementary school children to senior residents.  RHS members are united by a desire to document aspects of life as it is today and as it was in the past, and to present our history in ways and in places that we can all share.

RHS was relaunched in 2013, based in the restored town church.

Current Members of the RHS board:

  • Charles Billings

    PRESIDENT

  • Norm Tjossem

    VICE PRESIDENT

  • Jerry Shedd

    TREASURER

  • Alison Dickinson

    SECRETARY

  • Paula Scott

    CURATOR

  • Nathan Billings

    WEB MASTER

Contact us.

A better future isn’t possible without preservation of the past. Contact us to ask questions, learn how to support our mission or address our officers who work hard to preserve the history of this special mountain town.

riptonhistoricalsociety@gmail.com

PO box 140

Ripton, VT, 05766