Vermont Trivia & Tidbits - Page 16

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The Black River in Springfield (pop. 9,579) drops 110 feet in 200 yards, providing hydroelectric power through a series of plants located inside downtown buildings.

first appeared: 7/1/2001

Vermont and Rhode Island are the only New England states that experienced no bank closures during The Great Depression.

first appeared: 6/24/2001

Commissioned in 1988 by a wealthy British metals trader, Reverance is an outdoor granite sculpture of whales’ tails just outside Burlington (pop. 38,000). The two 13-foot-high tails stick out of the ground and weigh six tons.

first appeared: 6/17/2001

President Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933), born in Plymouth (pop. 440), ran the country during the summer of 1924 from an office above Plymouth’s general store. Coolidge liked to return to his “Summer White House” in Vermont to escape the heat in Washington, D.C.

first appeared: 6/10/2001

The first postage stamps used in America were printed in Brattleboro (pop. 12,000) in 1846.

first appeared: 6/3/2001

The brick schoolhouse in Brookline, built in 1822, has no exterior angles. The building is round, a shape common in Shaker barns but unusual in a schoolhouse.

first appeared: 5/27/2001

Blacksmith Thomas Davenport (1802-1851) of Brandon (pop. 4,200) built the world’s first electric motor. He also conducted experiments that led to the development of the electric printing press and the electric piano.

first appeared: 5/20/2001

Wilson A. Bentley (1865-1931) was the first person to photograph an individual snowflake. The resident of Jericho (pop. 2,000) amassed more than 5,000 glass plates, some of which were sold to Tiffany for jewelry designs.

first appeared: 5/13/2001

Grandma Moses once painted a picture of the Revolutionary War Battle of Bennington. Oddly, in the center of the panorama is the monument erected—more than 100 years after the battle—to commemorate that conflict.

first appeared: 5/6/2001

Windsor-born (pop. 3,200) Lemuel Hedge invented the circular saw (1849), a machine for planning boards, and a pipe organ. He also developed an improved bass viola.

first appeared: 4/29/2001

In Bellows Falls (pop. 3,313), the Steamtown Foundation for the Preservation of Steam and Railroad Americana Inc., houses the Union Pacific “Big Boy,” the largest steam locomotive ever built.

first appeared: 4/22/2001

Born in Rutland, blacksmith John Deere (1804-1886) developed the first cast steel plow. By 1855, he was selling more than 13,000 plows a year. In 1868, his business incorporated as Deere & Co., which is still in existence.

first appeared: 4/15/2001

Compiled by Bradwell Scott of Hampstead, N.H.

first appeared: 4/15/2001

Emma Willard (1787-1870) established a school for women in 1814 on land owned by what was then an all-male Middlebury College. The school taught subjects such as mathematics, thought at the time to be for men only.

first appeared: 4/8/2001

At Millstone Hill in Barre (pop. 10,000), the Rock of Ages Quarry mines granite blocks ranging from 20 to 150 tons for sawing, polishing, and carving.

first appeared: 4/1/2001

At 33.69 inches, Vermont has the lowest average annual precipitation in the six-state New England area.

first appeared: 3/25/2001

Vermont (along with Alaska, Hawaii, and Maine) allows no private billboards along its highways.

first appeared: 3/18/2001

The ski area around Killington (pop. 1,000) has one of the largest snowmaking systems in the United States.

first appeared: 3/11/2001

Although Mormans are often associated with Utah, the two men considered the founders of the Church of the Latter Day Saints, Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, were born in Vermont—Smith in Sharon (pop. 1,211) and Young in Whitingham (pop. 350).

first appeared: 3/4/2001

The University of Vermont, founded in 1791, was the first public-supported university in the United States.

first appeared: 2/25/2001

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