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1837: Hiram Kimball, marble saw inventor, born |
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1959: A meeting to discuss Bakerfield’s water supply |
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1865: The Home For Destitute Children is founded in Burlington |
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1902: Jessie LaFountain Bigwood, 1st woman lawyer |
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1880: Drought ends, fish spotted with umbrellas |
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1966: Plane crash on Mt. Mansfield |
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1819:Plow demonstration by a 137 year old man! |
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1912: President William Howard Taft speaks in Rutland |
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1835: There’s no governor! What do we do? |
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1826: William S. Ladd born in Holland. Helps develop
Portland, Oregon |
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1957:Wreckage of L-20 Beaver finally found in Chittenden |
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1970:The beginning of a delicious tradition...Apple
Pie Festival |
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1840: Albert Clarke born in Granville |
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1834: Anna Hunr Marsh leaves half her estate to establish
mental institution |
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1815: The original steamer, Vermont, sinks |
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1940: 200 men stand in line waiting for recruiting
office to open |
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1813: The other Alfred Hitchcock, born in Westminster |
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1796: Hosea Ballou II born in Guilford. 1st president
of Tufts University |
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1944: Sgt. Paulus, rescuer on Camel's Hump, gets
lost |
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1931: Pittsford landmark, Otter Creek Inn, burns |
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1874: The president of UVM praises Vermont as "the
mother of men" |
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1782:Vermont established its first law relating to
schools |
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1911:T.N. Vail gets the first paved road in Vermont |
24
1945: Peculiar circumstances foster tragedy on Navy
Day |
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1835: Sculptor Truman Howe Bartlett born in Dorset |
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1810: Noted lawyer and poet Joseph A. Wing born in
East Montpelier |
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1956: Patty Sheehan, LPGA champion, born in Middlebury |
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1806: Thomas Jefferson Cree born, would become well
known in Wheelock |
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1771: Green Mountain Boys destroy Scottish settlement
in Rupert |
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?: Doris “Morning Dove” Minckler born,
Abenaki healer |
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1932: Katherine Paterson, noted
children’s writer, born in China
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