Historical Marker Search

You searched for City|State|Country: , vt us

Page 3 of 7 — Showing results 21 to 30 of 61
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1U00_slate-pencil-manufacturing-historical_Castleton-VT.html
In 1843, John Cain erected a slate pencil mill along Sucker Brook. Benjamin and James Adams bought the mill in 1853, and began mass-producing slate pencils as the Adams Manufacturing Co. Soon, after acquiring more land and business partners, the c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1STX_paul-p-harris-1868-1947-historical_Wallingford-VT.html
In this brick building, constructed by his great-grandfather in 1818, Paul P. Harris attended school as a youth and received his elementary education. Many years later, Mr. Harris expressed the conviction that it was during his boyhood in Wallingf…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1STV_pearl-s-buck-historical_Danby-VT.html
Mother, wife, writer, humanitarian, and civil rights activist, Pearl Buck was the first American woman to receive the Pulitzer and Nobel prizes for literature. A visionary, she worked to cross political and cultural barriers to further understandi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1STD_italian-american-club-of-rutland-vermont-historical_Rutland-VT.html
On March 1, 1914, the Italian American Club of Rutland was founded as a mutual aid society by approximately forty southern Italian immigrants. Their mission included teaching local Italian immigrants English and assisting them to become American c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ST9_james-hope-historical_Castleton-VT.html
American portrait and landscape painter, James Hope excelled at capturing the beauty of mid-19th century Vermont. He is best known for his five large paintings of the Civil War Battle of Antietam in Maryland done from sketches made while serving a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ST8_old-stone-shop-historical_Wallingford-VT.html
Built in 1848, by Batcheller & Sons, makers of pitchforks For many years after 1808, farm implements were manufactured here. Lyman Batcheller & his sons bought the forge in 1835, and their forks became famous throughout the U.S. and Europe. In…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1S15_mount-holly-railroad-history_Mount-Holly-VT.html
During construction of what became the Rutland Railroad, two important events occurred in Mount Holly. In 1848, a construction crew discovered the tusk and tooth of a woolly mammoth in the nearby wetland. These are on display in the Community Hist…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HH8_horace-greeley-george-jones_Poultney-VT.html
At the original settlement in East Poultney, Horace Greeley, founder of the "New York Tribune", worked on the "Northern Spectator", 1826-1830. George Jones, co-founder of the "N.Y.Times", also came from here.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HEQ_matthew-lyon_Fair-Haven-VT.html
Matthew Lyon, Irish-born leading grantee, built grist, saw and paper mills here, 1783, and a forge above. He ran first store, inn, and newspaper. As Congressman from Vermont he was jailed under the Sedition Law and later elected from Kentucky and …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HDW_forest-dale-ironworks_Covington-VT.html
Ironworking began at Forest Dale in 1810 using local ore. By 1823 a blast furnace was producing pig iron and a variety of ornamental iron. The Green Mountain Iron Company acquired the facility in 1854 to produce parlor stoves. The furnace was refi…
PAGE 3 OF 7