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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1S2L_birthplace-of-william-griffith-wilson-1895-1971-co-founder-of-alcoholics-anonymous_Dorset-VT.html
Bill Wilson was born November 26, 1895, in a room behind the bar at the Wilson House Hotel. From age 11 until entering the Army, he lived at the Griffith House across the church yard from his birthplace. Bill W. wrote the book "Alcoholics Anonymou…
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Here, near Mt. Aeolus, Isaac Underhill opened the first marble quarry in 1785. Dorset quarries were most active in early 1800's when small slabs were used for hearths, doorsills and headstones. With better transportation and saws, larger blocks we…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HF1_fenton-pottery-site_Dorset-VT.html
Jonathon Fenton established a pottery and kiln near this site in 1801. He first made redware from clay found along the banks of the Mettowee River. He then became the first potter in Vermont to make salt-glazed stoneware. In 1810 he moved his pott…
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At Cephas Kent Tavern on the West Road, four Conventions were held, 1775-76, where finally the vote to form a "separate District" was passed by the delegates from the East and West sides without one dissenting vote.westerly 1½ mi.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ECH_harmons-mint_Dorset-VT.html
On the site at Hagar Brook stood the small clapboarded mint-house in which Reuben Harmon, Jr. coined copper for the Republic of Vermont, 1785-1788. When the Federal Government was instituted in 1789, Vermont abandoned minting. This rare currency o…
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