2+ week, 18+ hour ago  (276+ words) This Federal-style house, seen here in an early stereoview created in the 1870s, is one of the oldest houses in Montpelier. It was constructed around 1808 by Chester Wright, the first Congregational minister in Montpelier, on the western edge of the first…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (303+ words) The first Union Block on State Street was built in 1875 after two major fires devastated the downtown. The building's name celebrated the Union's victory in the Civil War, still fresh in people's minds. This building, like the Blanchard Block on…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (156+ words) Abbott & Bailey, a hardware store, was located at 81 Main Street at the foot of State Street from 1899 through 1905. Owned by Henry L. Abbott (at center of the storefront photo) and Marshall Bailey (right), both from Worcester before they bought the store,…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (281+ words) The Native history of this part of North America is far more complex, "messy," and poorly documented than portrayed by the Canadian Abenakis. They spew out a firehose of falsehoods. To rebut these attacks requires many 850-word essays. I'll start…...

8+ mon, 1+ week ago  (418+ words) The settlers in Montpelier's village began teaching school right from the beginning, according to an account in "Montpelier: The Capital City's History from 1780-1976" by Perry H. Merrill. The first school operated out of a log cabin alongside the Winooski River near…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago  (553+ words) On a recent cool, cloudy morning on the Millstone Hill trails in Barre, a couple of dozen people gather around our history hike leader, Scott Mc Laughlin." We are standing, he tells us, on the Barre Pluton, an "igneous intrusion…...