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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2750_court-house-grounds-park_Saint-Johnsbury-VT.html
On June 28, 1790, Jonathan Arnold donated the land now occupied by the courthouse and park to the "South Parish" of the Village of St. Johnsbury for use as a "Buryal Ground."
By 1855 the burial ground had fallen into disrepair.
Families start…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM274S_st-johnsbury-athenaeum_Saint-Johnsbury-VT.html
(National Register of Historic Places Plaque)
St. Johnsbury Athenaeum
Has been designated a
National Historic Landmark
This building possesses National Significance
in commemorating the history of the
United States of America
1996
Nation…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NFB_vail-campus_Lyndon-VT.html
Dedicated to the memory of Theodore Newton Vail (1848-1920), president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, a most generous benefactor of Lyndon Institute and Vail Agricultural School - one who had faith in the young people of this are…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NBZ_wheelock_Wheelock-VT.html
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 imp…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1H1B_caledonia-county-grammar-school_Peacham-VT.html
Caledonia County was set out from Orange County in 1792. Peacham chose to provide a County grammar school rather than a courthouse. The Caledonia County Grammar School (Peacham Academy) was chartered in 1795, the third County grammar school in Ver…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1H19_james-whitehill-stone-house_Groton-VT.html
In the style of a Scottish stone croft (farmhouse), this house was erected by James Whitehill, a prosperous farmer and one of a large number of immigrants from Inchinnan Parish, Scotland, who settled Ryegate under the sponsorship of the Scotch Ame…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1H18_henry-stevens-henry-stevens-jr_Barnet-VT.html
Born in Barnet on December 13, 1791, and educated at Peacham Academy, Henry Stevens was at various times a farmer, innkeeper, mill owner, legislator, postmaster, temperance leader, stage line proprietor, and operator of the Passumpsic Turnpike. A …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GZ3_first-american-platform-scale_St.-Johnsbury-VT.html
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 publ…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GYK_st-johnsbury-trade-school_St.-Johnsbury-VT.html
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 young men could lear…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FS7_mountain-view-farm_Burke-VT.html
This farm was established in 1883 by Elmer A. Darling (1848-1931), a native of East Burke who became part owner/manager of the world famous Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York City. After the hotel closed in 1908, Mr. Darling retired to the life of a g…