St. Albans

ST. ALBANS RAID
U.S. ROUTE 7, TAYLOR PARK, IN CITY
The Civil War entered Vermont, Oct. 19, 1864, when 22 Confederates spread terror from the north, robbed 3 banks and shot up the town. Stealing horses, they fled back into Canada. There, after trial, they were freed and the banks partially reimbursed.

St. Johnsbury

ST. JOHNSBURY TRADE SCHOOL
ST. JOHNSBURY MIDDLE SCHOOL - ROUTE 5
Vermont's first, and for many years only, four year vocational school opened on Western Avenue on September 3, 1918. Needing skilled workers during World War I, Fairbanks, Morse & Co. started an all-day co-operative school where your men could learn a skilled trade, earn money and obtain a high-school education. The original building, known as the Casino, was partially remodeled in 1919 and completely remodeled in 1927. The first out-of-town students arrived for vocational training in 1927. The "new" Trade School Building, built in 1942 on the site of Sir Thaddeus Fairbanks' estate, is currently the St. Johnsbury Middle School. Principals of the Vocational/Trade School: Stanley J. Steward 1918-1923; J. Maynard Trafton 1923-1941; Everett Winslow 1941-1942; G. Maynard Trafton 1942-1946; Lewis J. Streeter 1946-1970

FIRST PLATFORM SCALE
Two Identical Markers:
U.S. ROUTE 2, WEST OF VILLAGE AT LOCATION OF ORIGINAL FACTORY, and U.S. ROUTE 2, EAST OF ST. JOHNSBURY AT THE FAIRBANKS-MORSE CO. OFFICE
After experimenting with new types of farm equipment, plows and stoves, Thaddeus Fairbanks invented the platform scale here in 1830. With his brothers Erastus and Joseph, he founded the company which still bears their name. Many St. Johnsbury public institutions were gifts of this talented family.

Shaftsbury

SHAFTSBURY: The Birthplace, 1805, of Jacob Merritt Howard
ON ROUTE 125, THREE MILES EAST OF RIPTON VILLAGE
Moving west, Howard became Senator from Michigan and wrote resolutions adopted by Convention at Jackson, July 6, 1854, on which The Republican Party was founded. He was also the sole author of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution. His birthplace stands about 2 miles to the east.

Governor Jonas Galusha Homestead
3871 VT ROUTE 7A
Jonas Galusha, born in Norwich, CT in 1753, moved his family to Shaftsbury in 1775. During the Revolutionary War he served with Seth Warner’s Green Mountain Boys and was at the Battle of Hubbardton and a Captain during the Battle of Bennington. A blacksmith, innkeeper, carpenter and politician, he became the 5th Governor of Vermont and was re-elected for 9 terms from 1809-1819. His wife, Mary, was daughter of Gov. Thomas Chittenden. Gov Jonas Galusha died in 1834 and is buried nearby in the Center Shaftsbury Cemetery. The rear ell of the present house was built in 1783 and the front, designed by master-builder Lavius Fillmore of Bennington, was constructed in 1805.
Vermont Division for Historic Preservation - 2006

Sheldon

Site of Civil War Action
IN VILLAGE, TWO MILES SOUTH OF SHELDON JCT., OFF ROUTE 105
On their retreat back to Canada from the attack on St. Albans, the 22 man Confederate detachment rode into Sheldon near dark. Crossing a covered bridge which stood on this Site, they set it on fire, but alert village citizens saved the bridge. In great haste to escape an aroused countryside, the invaders gave up a planned foray on the local Bank.

FENIAN RAIDS
ROUTES 105 & 78, SHELDON JUNCTION
Attempted Canadian Invasion North of Here, 1866 and 1870 After Civil War, two attempts of Irish patriots to invade Canada and set up a free Irish republic were repulsed between Franklin and Cook's Corners. Fenians gathered in St. Albans, marched via Sheldon to the border but were stopped by Canadian arms and U.S. authorities.

Shoreham

Levi P. Morton
ROUTE 22A, NORTH OF VILLAGE
Statesman and Banker lived early years in Vermont Levi Parsons Morton, son of a minister, was born on this site, May 16, 1824, and for 8 years lived in Shoreham. He became a New York City banker, Member of Congress, Minister to France, Vice-President under President Harrison, and Governor of New York

SHOREHAM BRIDGE
NEAR RICHVILLE POND FISHING ACCESS
This Howe truss railroad bridge is one of only two covered railroad bridges left in Vermont. It was built in 1897 on the 15.6 mile Addison Branch connecting the Rutland Railroad at Leicester Junction with the Delaware and Hudson at Ticonderoga, New York, crossing Lake Champlain on a floating bridge at Larrabee's Point. This bridge was last used for rail traffic in 1951. Vermont Division for Historic Preservation - 1990

Shrewsbury

THE LONG TRAIL
RTE 103 .5 MILE SOUTH OF CLARENDON TOWN LINE
Footpath in the Wilderness extends length of the state This 261-mile hikers' trail, built by the Green Mountain Club during the years 1910-29, extends along the mountain summits from the Mass. state line to the Canadian border. Convenient shelters are provided for the hiker at regular intervals.

South Hero

EBENEZER ALLEN
U.S. ROUTE 2, AT ALLEN POINT RD.
Site of Pioneer's Tavern Here Ethan Allen's cousins, Ebenezer, made the first settlement on South Hero. From his tavern, Ethan, one of the "heroes" for whom the islands were named, started homeward across the ice to Burlington, Feb. 11, 1789. Stricken enroute, the Green Mountain Boy died the next day. Site: 3.5 miles south.

LAKE ISLANDS SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN
AT SANDBAR BRIDGE, SOUTH HERO HISTORIC
These Islands were first seen by a European in 1609, when Samuel de Champlain explored the Lake which bears his name and claimed them for the King of France. Ceded in 1763 to Britain, they became part of the Royal Colony of New York. After 1776, several American Revolutionary heroes received Land Grants here, and two Islands were so named. In 1783, this area joined the Free and Independent Republic of Vermont. Here is history and legend of the famous Allen family, the Green Mountain Boys, Roger"s Rangers, and many others.

Springfield

EUREKA SCHOOLHOUSE and BALTIMORE COVERED BRIDGE
EXIT 7 OFF INTERSTATE 91, ROUTE 11 WEST

The Eureka Schoolhouse, constructed between 1785 and 1790, is Vermont's oldest one-room school and one of the few surviving 18th century public buildings in the state. It was originally located in "Eureka Four Corners," northeast of Springfield Village, and was in continuous use until 1900. The schoolhouse was brought to this site and restored by a committee of Springfield citizens and the Vermont Board of Historic Sites in 1968. The pine board exterior, simulating stone block, was once painted golden yellow and the hipped roof was cobalt blue.

The 37 foot long Baltimore Covered Bridge, a "Town Lattice Truss" type bridge, was built in 1870 by Granville LeLand and Dennis Allen to cross the Great Brook in North Springfield. It was moved to this location in 1970.

HELEN HARTNESS FLANDERS
Ballad Collector, Poet, Scholar, Musician
ON LAWN OF THE HARTNESS HOUSE, 30 ORCHARD STREET
Born in Springfield, Vermont in 1890, daughter of Governor James Hartness and wife of U.S. Senator Ralph E. Flanders, Helen Hartness Flanders became an internationally recognized ballad collector and authority on folk music. Among her many endeavors, she wrote nine books (the first, Vermont Folk Songs and Ballads), lectured with local singers and developed the Flanders Ballad Collection. This treasure containing thousands of folk songs preserved in the oral tradition, as well as books and manuscripts, was donated to Middlebury College in 1941. The College awarded Mrs. Flanders an honorary Master of Arts degree for her work in the field of folk music. She died in Springfield in 1972.

JAMES HARTNESS & PRECISION VALLEY INVENTORS
ON LAWN OF THE HARTNESS HOUSE, 30 ORCHARD STREET
Newly arrived in Springfield in 1889 to work at the Jones and Lamson Machine Company, James Hartness soon rose to President. A natural leader, he played a vital role in the creation of “Precision Valley.” Internationally respected in the machine tool industry, Hartness was President of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, wrote extensively on company management issues, served as Governor of Vermont (1920-1922) and founded the Hartness State Airport. Hartness held over 120 patents (including the Flat Turret Lathe) and was an amateur astronomer.

MILITARY ROAD
U.S. ROUTE 5, NORTH OF CHESHIRE BRIDGE
Crown Point Road had ferry and eastern terminus here. This historic road was built by British General Jeffrey Amherst in 1759-60, from Fort No. 4 across the river in Charlestown northwesterly to Chimney Point opposite newly captured Crown Point on Lake Champlain. The wars ended, Yankee pioneers flooded into the Grants.

Stowe

SMUGGLERS NOTCH
ROUTE 100 AND MOSCOW ROAD
The southern gateway to Mount Mansfield and Smugglers Notch is via Route 100, once a plank road, the bed for Mt. Mansfield Electric Rail Road, and one of the earliest concrete roads. From the village of Stowe, Route 108 meanders past the base of Mt. Mansfield, Vermont’s highest peak at 4393 feet, and climbs through Smugglers Notch, the reputed route for cattle smugglers and hiding place for Lake Champlain pirates. The BIG SPRING has been popular since the 19th century when its waters were claimed to have curative powers. The caves, which retain ice until July, the ski resort and the many trails attract hikers and travelers in all seasons.

Vermont Division for Historic Preservation – 2005

Strafford

STRAFFORD-BIRTHPLACE OF JUSTIN SMITH MORRILL
ON JUSTIN SMITH MORRILL HIGHWAY IN STRAFFORD VILLAGE ON THE TOWN COMMON
Born April 14, 1810, Senator Morrill served 43 years in the Congress. He won unique fame as author of the Morrill Acts, signed by Abraham Lincoln, 1862. These established our land-grant colleges and universities, securing and broadening higher education in the U.S.

MORRILL HOMESTEAD
AT THE HOMESTEAD
Justin Smith Morrill, father of the act establishing land grant colleges, constructed this house, 1848-1851. Maintained as a life-long residence. The Homestead is registered as a National Historic Landmark.

Sunderland

SUNDERLAND
U.S. ROUTE 7, NEAR SUNDERLAND ROAD
Allen families lived here Ira Allen lived on this site by the Batten Kill and as Treasurer and Surveyor-General his "Office" helped shape the destiny of the Republic of Vermont. Here Ethan's family lived; here he dictated his freethinking "Oracles of Reason" in 1782. To his bride, his second wife, he presented the first copy.

Swanton

MISSISQUOI VILLAGE AND MISSION
Swanton/Highgate
ROUTE 7 AT JUNCTION OF MONUMENT ROAD, NW OF VILLAGE
The ancient Missisquoi/Mazipskoik Abenaki village was the region’s focal point into the 1760’s.  In 1744, Jesuits built a cabin which served into the 1790’s as the first longterm Christian mission in Vermont.  Speculators took much of the Abenaki land by 1798, but the Abenaki Nation of Missisquoi survived.  In the 1860’s, Swanton historian John Perry lamented the hasty destruction of the old village noting its antiquity and great importance to all.  Nearby, the Abenakis live quietly to this day.
Vermont Division for Historic Preservation - 1993

Townshend

SCOTT BRIDGE
ON ROUTE 30, WEST OF VILLAGE
Longest Single Span Covered Bridge in State This 277 foot bridge, built in 1870 by Harrison Chamberlin, consists of two king post trusses and a 166 foot Town lattice truss. The latter was the longest wooden span in Vermont; in 1981 a concrete pier was constructed to provide support. An earlier attempt to strengthen the bridge with the addition of a laminated bow arch was not successful.

TAFT HOMESTEAD SITE
WEST TOWNSHEND, AT THE POST OFFICE ON ROUTE 30
In 1799, Aaron Taft settled on a 100-acre farm on Taft Hill. His grandson Alphonso, born here in 1810, served as Secretary of War and Attorney General under President Grant, and as Minister to Austria-Hungary and Russia. Alphonso’s son, William Howard Taft (1857-1930) became 27th President of the United States and later Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. William’s son, Robert A. Taft (1889-1953) was U.S. Senator from Ohio. Many other descendants became prominent in government service.
Vermont Division for Historic Preservation - 2001-

CLARINA HOWARD NICHOLS
WEST TOWNSHEND, AT THE POST OFFICE ON ROUTE 30
Born in West Townshend 1810, Clarina Howard became an early advocate of women’s rights. After a divorce in 1843 she married George Nichols. As editor of the Windham County Democrat she strongly advocated women’s property rights, child custody, temperance, and suffrage. In 1852 she became the first woman to address the Vermont Legislature, and lectured throughout New England and the Midwest. Nichols was a staunch abolitionist who seized the opportunity to move with her family to Kansas where her views on slavery and women’s rights were widely accepted. During the Civil War, she was director of a home for orphaned black children in Washington, D.C. She died at her son’s home in Pomo, California, in 1885. Vermont Division for Historic Preservation -2001-

Tunbridge

TUNBRIDGE WORLD'S FAIR
TUNBRIDGE VILLAGE, ROUTE 110
This fair, founded in 1867 and held by the Union Agricultural Society on this site since 1875, was named "The World's Fair' by Lt. Governor Burnham Martin. The annual celebration reflects accomplishments of farmers and families by reinforcing their shared traditions and educating others about rural life. Several buildings date from the nineteenth century. The fair has an important display of antiques and old agricultural equipment collected from Central Vermont. Vermont Division for Historic Preservation - 1997

SITE OF 1780 RAID
ROUTE 110 ON ROYALTON/TUNBRIDGE TOWN LINE
On the Tunbridge hilltop, across the meadow, three hundred Indians, led by the British in the waning years of the Revolutionary War, laid in wait the night of Oct. 15, 1780. As dawn approached on the 16th, they began their pillaging, reducing homes to ashes, capturing and killing unsuspecting settlers. Near this site in the Royalton meadow by the river, young Thomas Pember lost his life. On the hill, northeast of here, Peter Button met the same fate. When the raiders had finished marauding the White River valley, they had captured 32 and killed 4. The captives were marched to Canada either to be sold or imprisoned. In the years that followed, many of the captives returned to their families via escape or ransom. Vermont Division for Historic Preservation - 2003

Vergennes

MACDONOUGH SHIPYARD
WEST U.S. ROUTE 7, ON MACDONOUGH ROAD
Below the Otter Creek Falls was the site of Thomas Macdonough's shipyard, where the U.S.S. Saratoga was built in 40 days and other ships launched that defeated the British at the Battle of Plattsburgh, 1814.

Wallingford

PAUL P. HARRIS 1868-1947 FOUNDER OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
WALLINGFORD VILLAGE ROUTE 7
In this brick building, constructed by his great-grandfather in 1818, Paul P. Harris attended school as a youth and received his elementary education. Many years later, Mr. Harris expressed the conviction that it was during his boyhood in Wallingford that he learned the basic ideals which became the cornerstones of Rotary International; destined to become a World-Wide service organization. This former schoolhouse is now maintained as a Memorial to Paul P. Harris by Wallingford Rotary.

OLD STONE SHOP
U.S. ROUTE 7, IN VILLAGE
Built in 1848, by Batcheller & Sons, Makers of Pitchforks For many years after 1808, farm implements were manufactured here. Lyman Batcheller & his sons brought the forge in 1835, and their forks became famous throughout the U.S. and Europe. In 1902 they merged with the firm making True Temper products, which rebuilt the Inn.

Warren

POPULATION CENTER
FULLER ROAD
Nearby is an official survey mark, set July 2002, to identify the symbolic center of population for the State of Vermont as determined by the 2000 U.S. Census. The actual center of population (44° 04' 52.05" north latitude, 72° 48' 51.51" west longitude) is located on Prickly Mountain, approximately 0.64 miles southwest of this location, and would be the point where the State of Vermont would balance perfectly, if it were flat and weightless, and all of its 608,827 residents (based on census 2000) were of identical weight. For survey information on this survey mark, go to the National Geodetic Survey web site at www.ngs.noaa.gov.

Waterbury

Dr. Henry Janes
US ROUTE 2 AT THE NORTHERLY END OF THE VILLAGE, ON THE LAWN OF THE WATERBURY PUBLIC LIBRARY
Henry Janes, physician, soldier, farmer, and humanitarian, was born here January 24, 1832. As head of services at the Union Army hospital immediately after the Battle of Gettysburg, Dr. Janes faced the challenge of caring for 20,000 wounded Union and Confederate men. Without prejudice, he cared for the suffering and healed the wounded by practicing advanced medical procedures to hasten recovery of his patients. A small town physician and scholar, he treated townspeople with equal care and compassion and was a generous benefactor to the Town of Waterbury. Upon his death in 1915, he bequeathed this house for use as the Waterbury Public Library.
Vermont Division for Historic Preservation - 2004

Weathersfield

WEATHERSFIELD BOW WILLIAM JARVIS
U.S. ROUTE 5
Consul to Lisbon. First to Import Merino Sheep to U.S. In 1811, Consul Jarvis brought from Spain to his farm in Weathersfield Bow the prized Merino sheep, whose longer fiber revolutionized the woolen industry and stimulated sheep raising throughout the East. In the 1830's Merinos were the state's principal livestock.

BOMBER CRASH ON HAWKS MOUNTAIN
TOWN GREEN IN THE VILLAGE OF PERKINSVILLE, ROUTE 106

At 12:17 a.m. on June 15, 1947, a U.S. Army Air Force Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber strayed off course and crashed on nearby
Hawks Mountain during a severe storm. All twelve crewmembers perished.  Assigned to the 43rd Bomb Group, the crew was on a Strategic
Air Command training mission from Tucson, Arizona  to Bedford, Massachusetts. Vermont Division for Historic Preservation – 2008

Crew of B-29A  #44-62228
Crashed Perkinsville, Vermont
15 June 1947

Westminster

BRADLEY LAW OFFICE
U.S. ROUTE 5, WESTMINSTER VILLAGE
Prominent nineteenth century political leader and lawyer, William Czar Bradley (1782-1867) practiced in this building from 1802 until 1858 when he retired. He was a member of the VT Legislature, the Governor’s Council, & U.S. Representative to Congress (1813-15 & 1823-27). As agent for the U.S. under the Treaty of Ghent, he established the boundary between Maine and Canada. William C. Bradley’s law office building, and its untouched collection of furnishings, manuscripts, and books were willed in 1908 to the State of Vermont by his granddaughter, Sarah Bradley Willard. For the following 65 years her grandson, William Bradley Willard, who maintained a life interest in the property, cared for the office until it was opened to the public. Vermont Division for Historic Preservation - 2003

VILLAGE COURT HOUSE
U.S. ROUTE 5
Wesminster "Massacre" Northward stood the Cumberland County Courthouse, seat of New York's colonial administration. Opposition to holding a court session let to the "Massacre" of March 13, 1775. Here the New Hampshire Grants on Jan. 16, 1777, declared their independence as "New Connecticut", later Vermont. Weybridge At Weybridge Hill, Two Miles W. of Middlebury, Weybridge Silas Wright 1795-1847 Born at Amherst, Mass. Silas Wright came to Weybridge as an infant and grew up here. Graduated from Middlebury College in 1815, he studied Law at Sandy Hill, NY; began Law Practice at Canton, NY, in 1819, and entered politics there. A Grigadier General by 1824, he was State Senator, 1825-1827; U.S. Congressman, 1827-1829; Comptroller, 1829-1833; U.S. Senator, 1833-1844; and Governor of New York, 1845-1847. In 1844, General Wright had declined the Democratic Party nomination for U.S. Vice-President. The large marble monument was erected in 1848 by citizens of Weybridge and vicinity, which General Wright had always regarded as his natal place.

Weston

WESTON VILLAGE HISTORIC DISTRICT
ROUTE 100 AT THE FARRAR MANSUR HOUSE
The village of Weston is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Settled in 1761, originally as the West Town of Andover, Weston was incorporated in 1799.  The Farrar Mansur House, built c. 1795, served as a home, tavern and community center.  It is now a museum of Weston’s early history. The Mill, built on the site of a 1780 sawmill, was revived as a water powered gristmill in 1936.  It contains an important collection of early trade tools.  Weston’s first firehouse, located by the millpond, now houses a Concord Coach purchased in 1880 by the Weston Coronet Band and outfitted as a bandwagon.
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The Village Green, once a frog pond and later a dump for the local tanneries, was established in 1886 as a private park by the Vermont General Assembly.  It is owned by the Farrar Park Association which consists of nine local women.  The first summer theater in Vermont opened its doors in Weston in 1936.  A remodeled church served as the original playhouse.  This burned in 1962.  The present Playhouse was rebuilt on the site of the church. Vermont Division for Historic Preservation – 2006

Weybridge

THE U.S. GOVERNMENT MORGAN HORSE FARM
74 BATTELL DRIVE
The U.S. Government established a Morgan horse breeding program in 1905 at the University of Vermont to study and refine the Morgan horse as a superior cavalry mount.  That program moved here in 1907 when Joseph Battell donated this farm to the U.S. Government and the U.S. Government Morgan Horse Farm was created.  In 1951 the University of Vermont assumed ownership.
Joseph Battell, a devoted Morgan horse breeder, researched the history of the breed and published Vol. 1 of the first American Morgan Horse Register in 1894.  Some of Battell’s Morgans were used as breeding stock by the U.S. Government Morgan Horse Farm.  The Battell and U.S. Government Morgan horse bloodline is perpetuated by the UVM Morgan Horse Farm’s breeding program. Vermont Division for Historic Preservation - 2007

Wheelock

WHEELOCK
ROUTE 122, ON VILLAGE GREEN
The Dartmouth College Land Grant - When Eleazer Wheelock founded Dartmouth in 1769, he sought land grants to support the new college. In 1785 the Vermont legislature chartered and named a town of 23,000 acres for Wheelock. In the early 1800's substantial support for financially impoverished Dartmouth came from this one grant, a gift of Vermont. Vermont Historic Sites Commission   1957

Whitingham

BRIGHAM YOUNG BIRTHPLACE
ROUTE 8 IN THE VILLAGE
The leader of the Mormon pioneers, Brigham Young, was born up the steep hill to the south on June 1, 1804. He eventually led his people from Illinois to Utah where he founded Salt Lake City in 1847 and 500 communities throughtout the west. Young became the first territorial governor of Utah and the second president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

OLD MEDBURYVILLE BRIDGE
OFF ROUTE 9
Relatively rare in Vermont, this double-intersection Warren truss bridge was built circa 1915 by the town of Wilmington. Iron truss bridges, which replaced many covered bridges, are becoming increasingly rare as they are being replaced by concrete and I-beam bridges.

Williamstown

DAVENPORT BIRTHPLACE
ROUTE 14 IN VILLAGE
Thomas Davenport was born on the West Hill in 1802 and worked in a blacksmith shop by the Village stream. Later, in Brandon, invented the first commutator, and, in 1837, patented the first electric motor.

Windsor

WINDSOR: Site of Constitution House
U.S. ROUTE 5, NORTH ENTRANCE OF VILLAGE
Windsor, settled in 1764, became the political center for the Connecticut Valley towns. Here the state was named and her constitution adopted; here were printed many of the first Vermont imprints and the state's oldest newspaper (1783). Its Yankee inventors made it the cradle of the American machine tool industry.

Winhall

SCOTT NEARING
August 6, 1883 - August 24, 1983
HELEN KNOTHE NEARING
February 23, 1904 - September 17, 1995
CORNER OF TAYLOR HILL ROAD AND STONE CABIN ROAD
Prominent economist, socialist, teacher, writer and scholar, Scott and his wife Helen Knothe, lived in Winhall from 1932 to 1952. During the Great Depression they moved from New York City to begin a new life in Vermont. Here in their homestead, named "Forest Farm", they chose to live "the Good Life," a title of one of their many books. They built their handcrafted stone houses, created fertile organic gardens, made maple sugar, and were sustained by the land. Pearl Buck was a frequent visitor and eventual neighbor building her own stone houses in the area. They inspired many followers who shared their philosophy, which was recognized as a centerpiece of America's "Back to the Land" and "Simple Living" movement. Scott was an outspoken radical, an anti-war crusader, an advocate of social and economic justice, and a strict vegetarian. Scott and Helen led the life of pioneers in Vermont and later in Maine, whence they moved in 1952.

Wolcott

FISHER BRIDGE
This bridge, spanning the Lamoille River on the St. Johnsbury & Lamoille County R.R., is the last railroad covered bridge still in regular use in Vermont and one of a very few left in the U.S. Built in 1908, it is the only one remaining with full-length cupola, which provided a smoke escape. In 1968 the bridge was scheduled for destruction to make way for a new steel span. It was saved by placing heavy steel beams underneath. This preservation was achieved with State funds and with generous private donations raised by the Lamoille County Development Council.

Woodstock

WOODSTOCK
ON VILLAGE GREEN
Shire Town of Windsor County, Chartered 1761 Settled 1768 Famous for the architecture of its houses, Woodstock is one of New England's most beautiful villages. Only town in America with 4 Paul Revere church bells. Birthplace of Hiram Powers, sculptor, "Greek Slave." Home of Frederick Billings, railroad empire-builder. Site of first ski tow in the United States, 1934.

SITE OF FIRST SKI TOW IN THE UNITED STATES
ON ROUTE 12, TWO MILES WEST OF WOODSTOCK VILLAGE
In January, 1934, on this pasture hill of Clinton Gilbert's farm, an endless-rope tow, powered by a Model "T" Ford engine, hauled skiers uphill for the first time. This ingenious contraption launched a new era in winter sports.

JUSTIN MORGAN
ROUTE 4, APPROXIMATELY OPPOSITE LINCOLN ST.
On this site the progenitor of the famous Morgan breed of horses was owned by Sheriff William Rice about 1800. Justin Morgan took his name from that of the singing schoolmaster who originally brought him to Vermont, but who lost possession of the later famous horse to Sheriff Rice in payment of a debt. New England Morgan Horse Association, Inc.

HIRAM POWERS
CHURCH HILL ROAD
Hiram Powers, one of the most famous nineteenth century sculptors, was born in 1805 in a farmhouse that stood on this hillside. Although he went west with his family at a young age, and took up residence in Florence, Italy, in 1837, Powers always referred to Woodstock as his home town. He said of his most famous work, "The Greek Slave" (the first nude female sculpture ever displayed in the U.S.), that he had dreamt of her rising from the mists of the Ottauquechee River. He died in Italy in 1837, leaving a body of work that included statues of such American heroes as: Andrew Jackson, Daniel Webster, John Quincy Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin. Today, his works are in private collections and at such museums as the Louvre, the Metropolitan, and the Smithsonian. Vermont Vermont Division for Historic Preservation - 1999