Green Mountaineer Online: Women's History

What was it like to be a girl in Vermont in the late 1800s?

• Diary of a Vermont Schoolgirl
• Annie Ide's New Birthday

In the 1830s, many Vermont girls and women left the state to work in the mills in Massachusetts.

• Mill Fever
• Letters from Lowell: A Factory Girl Writes Home
• The Factory Girl's Song
• Bells, Boardinghouses, and Backwater: A Millhand's Glossary
• The Lowell Offering: Showing the World What Factory Girls Could Do
• Factory Girl Word Find

In the late 1700s, Lucy Prince spoke in court, something very unusual for that time.

• Lucy Terry Prince: Forgotten Heroine

One Vermont woman was very important in collecting and saving the stories of Vermont history.

• Abby Hemenway's Thirty-Year Legacy

Another Vermont woman, Hetty Green, was famous for being frugal. She didn't want to spend her money, even though she had a lot of it!

• The Witch of Wall Street

And Emily Proctor helped purchase library books in foreign languages for immigrants who worked at the Vermont Marble Company.

• How Father Mouse Came to Vermont - And Other Stories

Many women went to work during World War II because the men were off to war.

• What Did You Do in the War, Grandmother?

Have some women's history fun!

• Women's History Word Find