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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28LU_william-slade_Cornwall-VT.html
William Slade was one of Vermont's great public servants and an ardent abolitionist. Born when Vermont was an independent republic, he died just before the Civil War.
A graduate of Middlebury College admitted to the bar in 1810, Slade was a for…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1H8K_silas-wright_Weybridge-VT.html
Born at Amherst, Mass., Silas Wright came to Weybridge as an infant and grew up here. Graduated from Middlebury College in 1815, he studied Law at Sandy Hill, N.Y.; began Law practice at Canton, N.Y. in 1819, and entered politics there. A Brigadie…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1H8I_the-u-s-government-morgan-horse-farm_Weybridge-VT.html
The U.S. Government established a Morgan horse breeding program in 1905 at the University of Vermont to study and refine the Morgan horse as a superior cavalry mount. That program moved here in 1907 when Joseph Battell donated this farm to the U.S…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1H58_john-deere_Middlebury-VT.html
John Deere learned the blacksmith trade here as an apprentice in the shop of Capt. Benjamin Lawrence from 1821 to 1825. The shop was located below this spot on Mill Street, in what is known as "Frog Hollow". In 1836 Deere removed to Grand Detour, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FSQ_charter-house_Middlebury-VT.html
In this house, the home ofSAMUEL MILLER, ESQ.September 30, 1798Timothy Dwight, President of Yale College, counseled with Gamaliel Painter and other citizens of Middlebury concerning the founding of Middlebury College.This conference led to the gra…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FSC_birthplace-of-ray-fisher_Middlebury-VT.html
Born in Middlebury on October 4, 1887, Ray Lyle Fisher grew up on farms along Otter Creek and Creek Road. Ray starred in baseball and football at Middlebury High School and Middlebury College before joining the New York Yankees in 1910. He pitched…
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Emma Hart came to Middlebury in 1807 to take charge of the Female Academy. After her marriage to Dr. John Willard, the town's first physician, she gave the earliest collegiate instruction for women in America at a Seminary in her home, during the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13ZZ_john-deere_Middlebury-VT.html
John Deere learned the blacksmith trade here as an apprentice in the shop of Capt. Benjamin Lawrence from 1821 to 1825. The shop was located below this spot on Mill Street, in what is known as "Frog Hollow". In 1836 Deere removed to Grand Detour, …