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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1M40_wagon-wheels-farm_Royalton-VT.html
The farmhouse on this site, dating from the late-18th century, was purchased by Irene and Robert Slater in 1934, along with a barn and 145 acres of land. During the Great Depression, like many Vermont farmers, the Slaters took in tourists to suppl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EK3_jessie-lafountain-bigwood_Royalton-VT.html
Born in 1874, Jessie LaFountain attended Burlington Business College and worked as a government reporter at Fort Ethan Allen in Colchester/Essex, Vermont. In 1898 she married Frederick H. Bigwood and shortly thereafter entered the office of V.A. B…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13JD_the-royalton-raid_Royalton-VT.html
To terrorize the valley from Tunbridge to Royalton, nearly 300 Indians led by a British officer fell on these defenseless frontier settlements, killing 4, taking 26 prisoners, & reducing Royalton to ashes. The captives hauled back to Canada were s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOV3_joseph-smith-monument_Royalton-VT.html
Joseph Smith, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was born near here on December 23, 1805. A visitor's center and a 38½ foot tall monument, considered the world's largest polished granite shaft, commemorates his life a…