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CHIMNEY
POINT
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For more than 12,000
years, the jutting shoreline known as Chimney Point
has been a strategic settlement for peoples occupying
the Champlain Valley. Native tribes camped here as they
hunted and fished their way up and down the waterway.
The area became an important stop for traders and later,
a French settlement. At the end of the French and Indian
War, French settlers torched and fled the site. The
only things standing were charred chimneys which inspired
the Point’s name.
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HYDE
LOG CABIN
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One of the oldest log
cabins in the nation, this structure was built by a
frontier settler in 1783. Using hand-hewn logs, Jedediah
Hyde, Jr. built a home for himself that has stood for
more than two centuries. Today the site, now restored,
has been furnished with items collected by the nearby
Grand Isle Historical Society.
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EUREKA
SCHOOLHOUSE
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For more than 100 years,
the children of Springfield’s Eureka District attended
school in this tiny wooden building—one of the oldest
public structures in Vermont. Today located near a lovely
picnic site and the Baltimore Covered Bridge, the schoolhouse
is home to an exhibit depicting life in a one-room schoolhouse,
including the books and materials used by local school
children.
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