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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EXM_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 there name. Many St. Johnsbury pub…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EXL_the-comerford-development-at-fifteen-mile-falls_Barnet-VT.html
The Connecticut River, starting at the International Boundary, flows 380 miles to the Atlantic Ocean. In its course the river falls 1640 feet. In 1928, the New England Power Association started a two-year project to build one of the largest hydro-…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18SB_northeastern-speedway_Waterford-VT.html
Opened on July 18, 1959 as Vermont's first organized auto racing track under the guidance of the Northeastern Racing Association, the State's first motor sports sanctioning body. By instituting formal point and purse structures and focusing on dri…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15PY_greenbanks-hollow_Danville-VT.html
On this site, in 1849, Benjamin Greenbank converted an existing small mill into a 5-story woolen factory. As many as 45 people worked here to produce up to 700 yards of cloth a day. Greenbank's Hollow, as it became known, included a company store,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDLZ_thaddeus-stevens_Danville-VT.html
Born crippled and poor in Danville in 1792, Stevens was schooled by his mother, Sally Morrill Stevens, and at nearby Caledonia County Grammar School, graduating from Dartmouth College in 1814. He became a brilliant lawyer, committed to racial equa…
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