Statewide

English Scouting Parties In The Connecticut Valley

Ethan Allen’s Marriage At Westminster

First Bridge Across Saxtons River

First Printing Press And First News-Paper In Vermont

First Post Offices Established In Rockingham And Bellows Falls In 1801

The First Post Roads And First Post Riders Through Bellows Falls

First Railroads Built Into Bellows Falls

Experiences Of A Connecticut River Rafting Gang With 18 Rafts In 1854

Incidents Connected With The Bellows Falls Canal

Until about the beginning of the 19th century, a natural curiosity in a rock at Bellows Falls excited interest in scientific circles of the country. Near the head of the canal, upon the point of rock extending into the Connecticut River, between the canal and the foundation of the present Sullivan Railroad Bridge, there was the clearly defined footprint of a huge bird of some unknown species. It was described as an exact reproduction of an exaggerated hen’s track, and measured five feet in length. It had an appearance like that of a bird stepping into a plastic substance, as