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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1STC_the-great-convention-historical_Ferrisburgh-VT.html
Frederick Douglass delivered a fiery abolitionist speech here in July 1843. Born in slavery in Maryland, Douglass freed himself by escaping to the north, where he became a tireless crusader for African American freedom and equality. He was among t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OC3_early-life-along-otter-creek-in-vergennes_Vergennes-VT.html
The Wilderness
Shhh. Imagine Otter Creek 300 years ago when it was pristine wilderness. The river teems with fish, herons, ducks and other waterfowl. Deer and moose tracks dot the river's edge. Downed trees, trampled shrubs, and mounds of mud, br…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OC2_commerce-at-the-crossroads_Vergennes-VT.html
Intersection of Rivers and Roads
Imagine traveling hundreds of miles in an ox-drawn wagon along muddy, rock-strewn, deeply rutted roads through the wilderness. In search of new homesteads, early settlers followed the same routes you took to get…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OC1_the-vergennes-pump-house_Vergennes-VT.html
In Need of Water
Fire was the scourge of downtowns all across America in the nineteenth century. Buildings were destroyed by fire time and time again. Water often had to be transported from nearby rivers. Firefighting efforts were frequently in v…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LTH_chimney-point_Addison-VT.html
This strategic point on Lake Champlain was occupied by Native Americans for thousands of years. In 1690 Jacobus deWarm build a small stone fort here. The French build a wooden stockade in 1731, erecting Fort St. Frederic across the lake in 1734. A…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LTG_shoreham-covered-railroad-bridge_Whiting-VT.html
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, Ne…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LPU_dar-john-strong-mansion_Addison-VT.html
General John Strong was a Revolutionary War patriot and a prominent early citizen of Addison County. He served as a judge, state legislator and represented Addison at the State Convention, which adopted the Constitution of the United States and ap…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1H8K_silas-wright_Weybridge-VT.html
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, N.Y.; began Law practice at Canton, N.Y. in 1819, and entered politics there. A Brigadie…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1H8I_the-u-s-government-morgan-horse-farm_Weybridge-VT.html
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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1H58_john-deere_Middlebury-VT.html
John Deere learned the blacksmith trade here as an apprentice in the shop of Capt. Benjamin Lawrence from 1821 to 1825. The shop was located below this spot on Mill Street, in what is known as "Frog Hollow". In 1836 Deere removed to Grand Detour, …