Free Online Vermont City Directories

City and business directories are available online from all over the U.S. and are another important source of information that can assist you in advancing your family history and genealogy research.

This activity of presenting links is a collaborative effort between The Ancestor Hunt and Miriam Robbins. For years, Miriam has made available the Online Historical Directories website, which presents links to directories of all types that are available online, including free collections as well as those available only via subscription. I wish to thank Miriam for her help in launching this category of records at The Ancestor Hunt.

So, what kinds of directories are available to the researcher? Naturally, there are city and business directories, but there are also telephone directories and alumni, farm, lodge, rural, and social directories.

What can you find in these records? How about:

• Full names, including middle names
• Spouse name
• Occupation
• Widows, working women, and adult children at home.
• Maps
• Businesses (and index to advertisers).
• Addresses and maps of churches, schools, funeral homes, cemeteries, post offices, courts, hospitals, benevolent associations, and newspapers.
• Whether a woman is a widow (including the name of her husband).
• List of marriages and deaths of the previous year.
• Death date.
• etc.

Here are a few good primers on the benefits of searching historical city and other directories:​

• FamilySearch – United States Directories
• How to Use City Directories In Your Genealogy Research 
• What’s In A City Directory? (a 10-article series about City Directories)

And here are various places where you can find other city directories online: 

• Where to Find City Directories Online

Note: Some links listed take you to a FamilySearch Collection of digital images. Near the bottom of the page, under Film/Digital Notes, is the name of each sub-collection. If there is a camera icon to the right of the name (in the Format column), then the collection’s images are browsable. If there is a camera with a key icon, it is only available at a Family History Center or affiliated library. If there is a film reel icon, then it is only available in microfilm format, not digital. To take full advantage make sure that you are logged in to FamilySearch. The results may be different if you are signed in, rather than not.

Vermont City Directories

Links to these free collections are presented initially with statewide collections, followed in alphabetical order by city or county. Generally, the publishing company is included in the reference to the collection, along with the collection title, and the date(s) of the directory:

Statewide

• 1825 Vermont Year Book
• 1826 Vermont Year Book
• 1827 Vermont Year Book
• 1972 Vermont Year Book
• 1973 Vermont Year Book
• Catalogue of the Principal Officers of Vermont, as connected with its Political History from 1778 to 1851
• New England Business Directory, Sampson & Murdock, 1916 (Part 1)
• New England Business Directory, Sampson & Murdock, 1918 (Part 1)
• Standard Insurance Directory of New England, 1899
• Standard Insurance Directory of New England, 1910/11
• The New England Business Directory and Gazetteer, 1916
• The New England Business Directory and Gazetteer, 1918
• The Vermont Business Directory, for 1879-80
• The Vermont State Directory and Gazetteer, 1905
• Vermont Directory and Commercial Almanac, 1856-57
• Vermont Directory and Commercial Almanac, 1858-59
• Vermont Directory and Commercial Almanac, 1860-61
• Vermont Directory and Commercial Almanac, 1863-64
• Vermont Directory and Commercial Almanac, 1865-66
• Vermont Directory and Commercial Almanac, 1867-68
• Vermont Medical Directory, Thayer, 1877
• Vermont State Business Directory, 1871
• Vermont State Directory and Gazetteer, 1905
• Vermont Yearbook, 1819
• Vermont Yearbook, 1820
• Vermont Yearbook, 1821
• Vermont Yearbook, 1822
• Vermont Yearbook, 1823
• Vermont Yearbook, 1824
• Walton’s New Vermont Register and State Year Book, 1907
• Walton’s New Vermont Register and State Year Book, 1907
• Walton’s Vermont Register and Business Directory – 1895
• Walton’s Vermont Register and Business Directory – 1918
• Waltons’ Vermont Register and Farmer’s Almanac for 1853
• Waltons’ Vermont Register and Farmer’s Almanac for 1853
• Waltons’ Vermont Register and Farmer’s Almanac, 1877
• Waltons’ Vermont Register and Farmer’s Almanac, 1878
• Waltons’ Vermont Register and Farmer’s Almanac, 1886
• Waltons’ Vermont Register and Farmer’s Almanac, 1889
• Walton’s Vermont Register and Farmer’s Almanack 1866
• Walton’s Vermont Register and Farmer’s Almanack 1855-1856
• Walton’s Vermont Register and Farmer’s Almanack 1819, 1821
• Walton’s Vermont Register and Farmer’s Almanack 1829
• Walton’s Vermont Register and Farmer’s Almanack 1829-30
• Walton’s Vermont Register and Farmer’s Almanack 1829-30
• Walton’s Vermont Register and Farmer’s Almanack 1833
• Walton’s Vermont Register and Farmer’s Almanack 1835-36
• Walton’s Vermont Register and Farmer’s Almanack 1836-38
• Walton’s Vermont Register and Farmer’s Almanack 1840-42
• Walton’s Vermont Register and Farmer’s Almanack 1840-42
• Walton’s Vermont Register and Farmer’s Almanack 1841-42
• Walton’s Vermont Register and Farmer’s Almanack 1843-44
• Walton’s Vermont Register and Farmer’s Almanack 1845
• Walton’s Vermont Register and Farmer’s Almanack 1846
• Walton’s Vermont Register and Farmer’s Almanack 1848-49
• Walton’s Vermont Register and Farmer’s Almanack 1851-52
• Walton’s Vermont Register and Farmer’s Almanack 1853-54
• Walton’s Vermont Register and Farmer’s Almanack 1855
• Walton’s Vermont Register and Farmer’s Almanack 1856
• Walton’s Vermont Register and Farmer’s Almanack 1863
• Walton’s Vermont Register and Farmer’s Almanack no.49 1866
• Walton’s Vermont Register, Business Directory, Almanac, and State Year-book, 1884
• Walton’s Vermont Register, Business Directory, Almanac, and State Year-book, 1885-86
• Walton’s Vermont Register, Business Directory, Almanac, and State Year-book, 1899
• Walton’s Vermont Register, Business Directory, Almanac, and State Year-book, 1907
• Walton’s Vermont Register, Business Directory, Almanac, and State Year-book, 1910
• Walton’s Vermont Register, Business Directory, Almanac, and State Year-book, 1910
• Walton’s Vermont Register, Business Directory, Almanac, and State Year-book, 1911/12
• Walton’s Vermont Register, Business Directory, Almanac, and State Year-book, 1911-1912
• Walton’s Vermont Register, Business Directory, Almanac, and State Year-book, 1913
• Walton’s Vermont Register, Business Directory, Almanac, and State Year-book, 1917
• Walton’s Vermont Register, Business Directory, Almanac, and State Year-book, 1918
• Walton’s Vermont Register, Farmers’ Almanac, and Business Directory, 1871
• Walton’s Vermont Register, Farmers’ Almanac, and Business Directory, 1875
• Walton’s Vermont Register, Farmers’ Almanac, and Business Directory, 1877-78
• Walton’s Vermont Register, Farmers’ Almanac, and Business Directory, 1880
• Walton’s Vermont Register, Farmers’ Almanac, and Business Directory, 1882
• Walton’s Vermont Register, Farmers’ Almanac, and Business Directory, 1891

Addison County

• Gazeteer and Business Directory of Addison County, VT for 1881-82
• Gazetteer and Business Directory of Addison County, Vt., for 1881-82

Albany

• 1884, Albany City Directory

Averill

• 1888, Averill City Directory

Barnet

• 1888, Barnet City Directory
• 1909, Barnet City Directory
• 1925, Barnet City Directory
• 1928, Barnet City Directory
• 1930, Barnet City Directory
• 1935, Barnet City Directory
• 1939, Barnet City Directory

Barre

• 1891, The Montpelier and Barre Alphabetical Directory, including a Directory of Williamstown
• Manning’s Barre and Montpelier (Vermont) Directory – 1930

Barton

• 1884, Barton Landing Directory
• 1884, Barton Town Directory
• 1884, Barton Village Directory

Bennington

• Bennington Directory, 1901
• Bennington Directory, 1901
• Manning’s Bennington, Shaftsbury and Arlington (Vermont) Directory – 1930

Bennington County

• Gazetteer and Business Directory of Bennington County, Vt. for 1880-81

Bloomfield

• 1888, Bloomfield City Directory

Brattleboro

• Manning’s Brattleboro (Vermont) and Hinsdale (New Hampshire) [Telephone] Directory – 1947
• Manning’s Brattleboro (Vermont) and Hinsdale (New Hampshire) [Telephone] Directory – 1949
• Manning’s Brattleboro (Vermont) Directory for Year Beginning July 1, 1930 – 1930

Brownington

• 1884, Brownington City Directory

Brunswick

• 1888, Brunswick City Directory

Burlington

• Burlington City Directory and Business Advertiser – 1866-1867
• Burlington City Directory and Business Advertiser – 1871-1872
• Burlington City Directory and Business Advertiser – 1881-1883
• Burlington City Directory for 1898
• Directories, Burlington City Directory and Business Advertiser, Including Winooski Falls, 1866-1883
• Schools, Directories, Catalogue of the Lambda Iota Society of the University of Vermont. 1836-1903

Cabot

• 1889, Cabot City Directory
• Cabot Town Directory, 1889

Caledonia County

• Barnet Town Directories 1888, 1909, 1925, 1928. 1930, 1935, 1939
• Caledonia Town Directories, 1888
• Danville Town Directories 1888, 1909, 1925, 1928. 1930, 1935, 1939
• Gazetteer of Caledonia and Essex Counties, Vt., 1764-1887
• Kirby Town Directories 1888, 1909, 1925, 1928. 1930, 1935, 1939
• Lyndon Town Directories 1888, 1909, 1925
• Lyndonville Town Directories 1928. 1930, 1935, 1939
• St. Johnsbury Town Directories 1875, 1876, 1888, 1890, 1901, 1909, 1925, 1928. 1930, 1935, 1939
• Waterford Town Directories 1888, 1909, 1925, 1928. 1930, 1935
• 1888, Caledonia County Directories 1888-1939

Canaan

• 1888, Canaan City Directory

Charleston

• 1884- Charleston City Directory

Chittenden County

• Gazetteer and Business Directory of Chittenden County, Vermont, 1882
• Gazetteer and Business Directory of Chittenden County, Vermont, for 1882-83
• Gazetteer and Business Directory of Chittenden County, Vermont, for 1882-83
• Gazetteer and Business Directory of Chittenden County, Vermont, for 1882-83
• Gazetteer and Business Directory of Chittenden County, Vermont, for 1882-83.

Concord

• 1888, Concord City Directory
• 1909, Concord City Directory
• 1925, Concord City Directory
• 1928, Concord City Directory
• 1930, Concord City Directory
• 1935, Concord City Directory

Coventry

• 1884, Coventry City Directory

Craftsbury

• 1884, Craftsbury City Directory

Danville

• 1888, Danville City Directory
• 1909, Danville City Directory
• 1925, Danville City Directory
• 1928, Danville City Directory
• 1930, Danville City Directory
• 1935, Danville City Directory
• 1939, Danville City Directory

Derby

• 1884, Derby City Directory
• 1896, Derby City Directory
• 1916, Derby City Directory

East Haven

• 1888, East Haven City Directory

Essex County

• 1888, Essex County Directories
• Concord Town Directories, 1888, 1909, 1925, 1928, 1930, 1935
• Essex County Town Directories, 1888
• Gazetteer of Caledonia and Essex Counties, Vt., 1764-1887

Ferdinand

• 1888, Ferdinand City Directory

Franklin County

• Directories, Gazetteer and Business Directory of Franklin and Grand Isle Counties, Vt., for 1882-83
• Gazetteer and Business Directory of Franklin and Grand Isle Counties, Vt., for 1882-83

Glover

• 1884, Glover City Directory

Granby

• 1888, Granby City Directory

Grand Isle County

• Directories, Gazetteer and Business Directory of Franklin and Grand Isle Counties, Vt., for 1882-83
• Gazetteer and Business Directory of Franklin and Grand Isle Counties, Vt., for 1882-83

Granville

• Manning’s Granville, Fair Haven and Poultney (Vermont), Whitehall (New York) Directory – 1931

Greensboro

• 1884, Greensboro City Directory

Groton

• 1888, Groton City Directory

Guildhall

• 1888, Guildhall City Directory

Hardwick

• 1888, Hardwick City Directory

Holland

• 1884, Holland City Directory

Irasburg

• 1884, Irasburg City Directory

Island Pond (Brighton)

• 1888, Island Pond City Directory

Jay

• 1884, Jay City Directory

Kirby

• 1888, Kirby City Directory
• 1909, Kirby City Directory
• 1925, Kirby City Directory
• 1928, Kirby City Directory
• 1930, Kirby City Directory
• 1935, Kirby City Directory

Lamoille County

• 1867, 1867 Lamoille County Vermont Diretory
• Directories, Gazetteer and Business Directory of Lamoille and Orleans Counties, Vt. for 1883-84
• Directories, Gazetteer and Business Directory of Lamoille and Orleans Counties, Vt., for 1883-84
• Morristown Town Directory, 1884

Lemington

• 1888, Lemington City Directory

Lowell

• 1884, Lowell City Directory

Lunenburg

• 1888, Lunenburg City Directory

Lyndon

• 1888, Lyndon City Directory

Lyndonville

• 1930, Lyndonville City Directory
• 1935, Lyndonville City Directory
• 1939, Lyndonville City Directory

Maidstone

• 1888, Maidstone City Directory

Middlebury

• Catalogue of the Graduates of Middlebury College, 1853
• Catalogue of the Graduates of Middlebury College, 1853

Montpelier

• Manning’s Barre and Montpelier (Vermont) Directory, 1930
• The Montpelier and Barre Alphabetical Directory: including a Directory of Williamstown, Vt., 1891, 1897-1898

Morgan

• 1884, Morgan City Directory

Morristown

• 1884, Morristown City Directory

Newark

• 1888, Newark City Directory

Newfane

• Directories, Annual Report of the Auditors of the Town of Newfane, 1901-1913

Newport

• 1884, Newport City Directory
• 1896, Newport City Directory
• 1916, Newport City Directory
• 1925, Newport City Directory
• 1930, Newport City Directory
• Merwins Conn. River Business Directory for 1867/8 … Relating to the Business interests of the Cities, Towns and Villages, on the Line of the River from Saybrook, Conn., to Newport, Vermont

Newport Village

• 1884, Newport Village Directory

North Troy

• 1884, North Troy City Directory

Northfield

• Norwich University, Alumni Directory, 1984
• Schools, Directories, Catalogue of Alumni and Past Cadets of Norwich University, May, 1895

Norton

• 1888, Norton City Directory

Orange County

• Gazetteer of Orange County, Vt., 1762-1888
• Gazetteer of Orange County, Vt., 1762-1888
• LaMoille and Orange County Business Directories, Hamilton Child, 1883-4

Orleans County

• Derby Town Directories, 1884, 1896-97, 1916
• Directories, Gazetteer and Business Directory of Lamoille and Orleans Counties, Vt., for 1883-84
• Gazetteer and Business Directory of Lamoille and Orleans Counties, Vt. for 1883-84
• Newport Town Directories, 1884, 1896-97, 1916, 1925, 1930
• Orleans County Town Directories, 1884

Peacham

• 1888, Peacham City Directory

Portsmouth

• 1839, Portsmouth City Directory

Rutland

• Gazetteer and Business Directory of Rutland County, VT., for 1881-82
• Manning’s Rutland City and Township, West Rutland and Proctor, Vermont, Directory – 1930
• Rutland Directory 1872-1873
• Rutland Directory 1874-1875
• Rutland Directory 1876-1877
• Rutland Directory 1878-1879
• Rutland Directory 1880-1881
• Rutland Directory 1884-1885
• Rutland Directory 1886-1887
• Rutland Directory 1889 -1890
• Rutland Directory 1891-1892
• Rutland Directory 1894
• Rutland Directory 1895-1896
• Rutland Directory 1897-1898
• Rutland Directory 1899-1900
• Rutland Directory 1901-1902
• Rutland Directory 1903-1904
• Rutland Directory 1905-1906
• Rutland Directory 1907-1908
• Rutland Directory 1909-1910
• Rutland Directory 1911
• Rutland Directory 1913
• Rutland Directory 1914
• Rutland Directory 1915
• Rutland Directory 1916
• Rutland Directory 1917
• Rutland Directory 1919
• Rutland Directory 1920
• Rutland Directory 1922
• Rutland Directory 1923
• Rutland Directory 1924
• Rutland Directory 1925
• Rutland Directory 1926
• Rutland Directory 1927
• Rutland Directory 1928
• Rutland Directory 1929
• Rutland Directory 1930
• Rutland Directory 1932
• Rutland Directory 1933
• Rutland Directory 1934
• Rutland Directory 1935
• Rutland Directory 1936
• Rutland Directory 1937
• Rutland Directory 1938
• Rutland Directory 1939
• Rutland Directory 1940
• Rutland Directory 1942
• Rutland Directory 1944
• Rutland Directory 1946
• Rutland Directory 1947
• Rutland Directory 1949
• Rutland Directory 1950
• Rutland Directory 1951
• Rutland Directory 1952
• Rutland Directory 1954
• Rutland Directory 1955
• Rutland Directory 1957
• Rutland Directory 1958
• Rutland Directory 1960
• Rutland Directory 1961
• Rutland Directory 1963
• Rutland Directory 1964
• Rutland Directory 1965
• Rutland Directory 1966
• Rutland Directory 1967
• Rutland Directory 1968
• Rutland Directory 1969
• Rutland Directory 1970
• Rutland Directory 1971
• Rutland Directory 1972
• Rutland Directory 1974-75
• Rutland Directory 1976
• Rutland Directory 1977
• Rutland Directory 1978
• Rutland Directory 1979
• Rutland Directory 1980
• Rutland Directory 1981
• Rutland Directory 1982
• Rutland Directory 1983
• Rutland Directory 1984
• Rutland Directory 1985
• Rutland Directory 1986
• Rutland Directory 1986
• Rutland Directory for 1884-85

Rutland County

• Gazetteer and Business Directory of Rutland County, Vt. for 1881-82

Ryegate

• 1888, Ryegate City Directory

Sheffield

• 1888- Sheffield City Directory

St. Johnsbury

• 1875, St. Johnsbury City Directory
• 1884, St. Johnsbury City Directory
• 1889, St. Johnsbury City Directory
• 1895, St. Johnsbury City Directory
• 1900, St. Johnsbury City Directory
• 1905, St. Johnsbury City Directory
• 1912, St. Johnsbury City Directory
• 1919, St. Johnsbury City Directory
• Manning’s St. Johnsbury and Lyndonville Directory – 1931

Stannard

• 1888, Stannard City Directory

Sutton

• 1888, Sutton City Directory

Troy

• 1884, Troy City Directory

Victory

• 1888, Victory City Directory

Walden

• 1888, Walden City Directory

Washington County

• Gazetteer of Washington County, Vt., 1783-1889
• Gazetteer of Washington County, Vt., 1783-1889

Waterford

• 1888, Waterford City Directory
• 1909, Waterford City Directory
• 1925, Waterford City Directory
• 1928, Waterford City Directory
• 1930, Waterford City Directory
• 1935, Waterford City Directory

Westfield

• 1884, Westfield City Directory

Westmore

• 1884, Westmore City Directory

Wheelock

• 1888, Wheelock City Directory

Williamstown

• The Montpelier and Barre Alphabetical Directory, Including a Directory of Williamstown, Vt., 1891-1898

Windham County

• Gazetteer and Business Directory of Windham County, Vt., 1724-1884
• Gazetteer and Business Directory of Windham County, Vt., 1724-1884

Windsor County

• Gazetteer and Business Directory of Windsor County, Vt., for 1883-84
• Gazetteer and Business Directory of Windsor County, Vt., for 1883-84
• Windsor County Business Directory, Hamilton Child, 1883-4