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1

1849: First interstate railway service

2

1913: This 3 year old decides to go for a six mile walk

3

1830: Abram Hatch is born in Lincoln

4

1787: This Rutherford Hayes never met his son & never knew he would be president

5

1793: More than his money, this railroad needs his optomism

6

1836: He's a math prodigy, but he doesn't perform

7

1821: William Wallace Chandler is born in Randolph

8

1900: The Ladies Aid Society holds its first meeting

9

1804: Thomas Jefferson Sawyer is born in Reading

10

1906: Richford gets funding for a post office, customs house, and Chinese detention center

11

1919: Eleven tons of fish in Bomoseen and Lake St. Catherine

12

1856: This man was born in St. Johnsbury, but would change Seattle

13

1904: Fire breaks out and destroys two buildings while there's nobody around

14

1887: Hotel Burlington & Walker Block burn to the ground

15

1843: Consecrating a church in Montpelier

16

1852: Horace Ward Bailey is born in Newbury

17

1941: The community's pride, Bellows Free Academy, burns

18

1914: The Grange Block burns on Elliot Street in Brattleboro

19

2004: A disappointment for a Vermonter who wants to be president

20

1842: The Hell Book out of Danville's causing quite a stir

21

1914: Essex Junction trustees put a name on village property

22

1928: Four boys named flying cadets - Hardwick celebrates

23

1923: The value of Vermont farms

24

1782: For once every political party agrees on the guy

25

1904: Quarantine at Washington County Jail

26

1923: Getting chased back into the hen house

27

1967: Snowmobilers get organized and the trails get VAST

28

1855: Stage blown to a stop in Mendon

29

1925: Fire at Hotel Coolidge in White River Junction

30

1907: Mari Tomasi is born in Montpelier

31

1812: Everyone's heard of the Pony Express


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