Jonas Galusha (February 11, 1753 – September 24, 1834) was the sixth and eighth governor of Vermont for two terms in the early 19th century.

Though their educations were limited and from the common schools, he and his brothers were leading men in the town and to some extent in the state.

During the American Revolution his brother David was a colonel in the Green Mountain Boys, and Galusha was a captain, fighting in the Battle of Bennington on August 16, 1777.

(The Council of Censors met every seven years to review statutes passed by the Vermont General Assembly and ensure their constitutionality.)

From 1793 to 1798 through successive elections, he was a member of the Governor's Council (a group of 12 men with powers which made it nearly equivalent to a co-ordinate branch of the legislature.

The magnificent Palladian window over the front entrance, and many other details are the result of design by Lavius Fillmore, the famous colonial architect from Connecticut who also designed some of Vermont's finest churches in Bennington and Middlebury.

The Galusha House overmantel ... is the work of a highly skilled artist whose bold floral designs fill the entire surface of the chimney breast and extend as well to the adjoining walls of the room.

The elegant floral pattern is executed free hand in dark outline against a dull green background.

[14]In 2010, the homestead and its farmland were protected by covenants between Galusha descendants and the Vermont Land Trust.