| The Boston Transcript was printing
news about Lyndon on this day in 1911.
Theodore N. Vail, President of AT&T, had purchased a modest
farmhouse in Lyndon and made yearly additions, until it was transformed
into a sprawling mansion.
The farm was known as Speedwell Farms, and Vail entertained many
notable guests, President Taft among them. Vail had the road to
Speedwell Farms paved. It was the first paved road in Vermont.
One guest sang praises of Speedwell Farms to the Boston Transcript,
proclaiming the road from Lyndon Center “smooth as a billiard
table and lined with young shade trees.”
Historic image courtesy T.N.
Vail Museum at Lyndon State College Current photo is a Vermont
Book Of Days image
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The road up Vail Hill, today, and
how it used to look in the early 1900s.
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