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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FSY_benedict-arnold_Panton-VT.html
Near this spot on the afternoon of October 13, 1776 in the first important naval engagement of the War for IndependenceBENEDICT ARNOLDafter a battle in which he had displayed great boldness, gallantry and sagacity ran ashore and burned the remnant…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FSQ_charter-house_Middlebury-VT.html
In this house, the home ofSAMUEL MILLER, ESQ.September 30, 1798Timothy Dwight, President of Yale College, counseled with Gamaliel Painter and other citizens of Middlebury concerning the founding of Middlebury College.This conference led to the gra…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FSC_birthplace-of-ray-fisher_Middlebury-VT.html
Born in Middlebury on October 4, 1887, Ray Lyle Fisher grew up on farms along Otter Creek and Creek Road. Ray starred in baseball and football at Middlebury High School and Middlebury College before joining the New York Yankees in 1910. He pitched…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FS9_emma-willard_Middlebury-VT.html
Emma Hart came to Middlebury in 1807 to take charge of the Female Academy. After her marriage to Dr. John Willard, the town's first physician, she gave the earliest collegiate instruction for women in America at a Seminary in her home, during the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FS3_macdonough-shipyard_Vergennes-VT.html
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.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FRT_rokeby_Ferrisburgh-VT.html
Here in 1833, Rowland E. Robinson was born of Quaker parentage. He became a popular illustrator and interpreter of nature and Yankee dialect. "Rokeby" was a station on the "Underground R.R." Here are the blind author's memorabilia.Open to the publ…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13ZZ_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, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOUE_robert-frost_Ripton-VT.html
A distinguished American poet by recognition and a Vermonter by preference, Robert Frost was Poet Laureate of Vermont and for many years "First Citizen" of the Town of Ripton. He was long associated with the Middlebury College School of English an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCUO_the-american-southern-defenses-1776-1777_Orwell-VT.html
"we are Building a Large & Long Breast work on the South Side." -Pvt. Thomas Killam, August 19, 1776
When the American Northern Army arrived at Ticonderoga in mid-July 1776, the 300-acre peninsula opposite on the Vermont shore was a rugged lan…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCUH_southern-defense-trail_Orwell-VT.html
This walkway is a loop approximately 0.2 mile long with stairs and gentle slopes. It leads you past the remains of a blockhouse (near the parking area), provides a look at the Mount's rock formations, and provides a vista of the lake south of the …