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The only surviving picture of our Great Grand Father Frank Henry Gillingham - "FH" - sitting with Dutch at camp in Plymouth, and his wife our Great Grand Mother Ada Fairbanks Gillingham

Trout fishing on Elm Street in front of Gillingham's.

A barrel of molasses being lowered into the basement for storage in 1907.

The Woodstock Inn stagecoach at what was the Woodstock Railroad station in the East End of the village. FH had a warehouse at the station to store containers of products arriving by train.

2 December 1954

Grace Coolidge 'franked' her envelope for postage when sending in payment on the Coolidge account!!

In 1978 local resident and artist Ivan Allbright decided that he would like to use his Gillingham charge account without signing for each sale. He took a blank charge card home and returned with this drawing, which he presented to then cashier Phyl Kruse, to serve as his signature on each of his purchases from that point on!!

The solid oak roll top desk used by Frank Henry Gillingham up until his death in 1918 and by many others since...

A Barrel of Flour

A STORY told to Jireh & Frank by their grandmother Elizabeth Gillingham. There was a lady in town who didn’t think the recent barrel of Gillingham’s flour delivered to her home was any good. Her cakes were flat and her bread wouldn’t rise at all and it must be the flours fault; and she went back to F.H. to complain about it. Since his word was as good as a Government Bond he took back the offending barrel and delivered her another. She thought the new barrel was terrific, her cakes weren't flat and her bread rose first rate, until she got to the bottom and found her own measuring cup there. F.H. had simply turned the barrel over and nailed a new top on its former bottom. The lady among other things luckily had a good sense of humor, and when she came back into the store they all had a good laugh.

18 June 1993

Hillary Rodham Clinton, Gov. Howad Dean, Sen. Patrick Leahy and Sen. Bernie Sanders come and visit Gillingham's!

A letter from the White House, Washington, DC

Gillingham Store in the early Summer of 2003

Gillingham Staff photo 2006

FH Gillingham & Sons is awarded a

Vermont Centennial Business Award

On March 20, 2006 the third annual Centennial Business Award ceremony took place on the UVM campus at the Billings Center.  20 businesses ranging from scale makers to general stores were honored for their longevity and innovation.  This is a joint project of the Office of the Secretary of State, the Vermont Chamber of Commerce and the Vermont Business Magazine.

An Oral History of Gillingham's Narrated by Howard Coffin

The 4th Grade History Fair Project