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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Z1W_stewart-holbrook-1893-1964_VT.html
Stewart Holbrook was a logger, a nationally recognized author, and self-taught historian whose topics included Ethan Allen, railroads, and the timber industry. Holbrook, believed to have coined the term "tree farm," was renowned for writ…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GZ5_vermont_Guildhall-VT.html
U.S. 2 is the major highway between the Atlantic and Lake Champlain. It leads through St. Johnsbury, the maple sugar center, down the Winooski River to Montpelier, through the tallest mountains at Bolton Gorge to Lake Champlain at Burlington, Univ…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GZ4_george-lansing-fox_Lunenburg-VT.html
Called from his Gilman parish to serve as a Chaplain in World War II, First Lieutenant Fox died when the Dorchester was torpedoed in the North Atlantic. Giving his life jacket to a soldier, he perished with three other chaplains, in one of the mos…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FHP_rogers-rangers-cemetery_Granby-VT.html
This stone cairn marks the graves of two Rogers' Rangers who died during the French and Indian War. Their gruesome deaths were recorded in the diary of Lieutenant George Campbell: "(Sergeant) Lewis had told me that his party had shot a Moose near …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EXN_1st-normal-school_Concord-VT.html
The first recognized school for the purpose of training teachers was conducted near here by the Rev. Samuel Read Hall, 1823-25. Practice teaching was employed, with lectures on Schoolkeeping, which became in 1829, the first professional book for t…