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1791-1820 – Guilford is most populous town in Vermont; 1816 – First Episcopal church in Vermont built in Guilford, Christ Church; 1817 – Broad Brook House built, now houses the Guilford Country Store; 1820 – East Guilford Cotton Mill on Bee Barn Road burns down; 1822 – First Guilford Town Hall built on Guilford Center Road in Guilford ...
John Shepardson was born in Attleboro, Massachusetts on February 16, 1729, and was an early resident of Guilford, Vermont.Though most Guilford residents supported the colonial government of New York in the ongoing dispute over whether Vermont would be administered by New York or New Hampshire or become independent of both, Shepardson supported independence and was an ally of the faction led by ...
The Guilford Country Store is set on the east side of the junction of Coolidge Highway and Guilford Center Road, in the center of Guilford's main village. It is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story wood-frame structure, with a side-gable roof, clapboard siding, and a foundation that is mainly stone. It is set close to the road, with its main facade facing west ...
Fort Dummer State Park is part of the Vermont State Park system. It comprises 217 acres (878,000 m²) of forest in Brattleboro, Guilford & Vernon . The park overlooks the former site of Fort Dummer which was flooded when the Vernon Dam was built on the Connecticut River in 1908.
The Green River Covered Bridge is a covered bridge in western Guilford, Vermont. Built in the 1870s by Marcus Worden, it is a Town lattice truss bridge, carrying Green River Road over the eponymous river in a small rural village of the same name. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. [1]
Introduced by Vermont Senator Justin Morrill and signed by President Abraham Lincoln., [1] the Morrill Act (12 Stat. L., 305) is considered to be the first federal attempt at vocational education. It dedicated land obtained by the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 to be used for colleges that taught mechanics and agriculture. [ 1 ]
Willbur Fisk was raised in Lyndon, and at age 16 he was admitted to the Peacham Academy in Vermont where he completed a course of instruction in two years. After leaving the Academy, he began attending Burlington College in Vermont in 1812 (now the University of Vermont). The outbreak of the War of 1812, however, caused classes to be suspended.
Charles N. Davenport (October 10, 1830 – April 12, 1882) was an American attorney, businessman, and political candidate from Vermont. A Democrat during the American Civil War and post-war era when Republicans won every election for statewide office, Davenport was an unsuccessful candidate for offices including governor and U.S. representative.