The information contained in this booklet has been gleaned from many sources and through the efforts of many people. For the reader interested in pursuing a particular aspect of the history of the town or its buildings, the collections of Special Collections in the Main Library at Middlebury College and the Stewart-Swift Research Center at the Henry Sheldon Museum are highly recommended. For a more complete coverage of Middlebury's history in general, the following are recommended:
- Stephen A. Freeman, The Congregational Church of Middlebury, Vermont, 1790-1990: A Bicentennial History, Middlebury Congregational Church, 1990 (a thorough history of the church through 1990).
- W. Storrs Lee, Father Went to College, New York, Hastings House, 1936 (a history of Middlebury College from its founding through the Depression).
- W. Storrs Lee, Father Went to College, New York, Hastings House, 1936 (a history of Middlebury College from its founding through the Depression).
- W. Storrs Lee, Stagecoach North, New York, Hastings House, 1941 (life in early Middlebury).
- W. Storrs Lee, Town Father, New York, Hastings House, 1952 (the biography of Gamaliel Painter).
- David Stameshkin, The Town's College: Middlebury College, 1800 – 1915, Middlebury College Press, 1985 (a detailed history of Middlebury College from its founding to 1915).
- Samuel Swift, History of the Town of Middlebury, Middlebury, 1859 and Rutland, Tuttle, 1971 (one of the early town fathers drawing upon his personal experience and those of his contemporaries to write a very detailed account of Middlebury's first ninety years).
- Vermont Division for Historic Preservation, The Historic Architecture of Addison County, Curtis B. Johnson, ed., Montpelier, Vermont Division for Historic Preservation, 1992 (exhaustive listing of virtually every historically significant building in Addison County as well as an historical introduction for the county and each of its towns).