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English Scouting Parties In The Connecticut Valley

Ethan Allen’s Marriage At Westminster

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

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

Celebrating The Centennial Of The Battle Of Bennington

The First Post Roads And First Post Riders Through Bellows Falls

The mass of rock that rises abruptly from the east bank of the Connecticut at Bellows Falls was early known as “Falls Mountain,” later, “Fall Mountain,” and it was not until Tuesday, September 23, 1856, that it received its present name, “Mount Kilburn.” The class of ’57 of Amherst College, to the number of twenty-nine, came here on the noon train of that day, and early in the afternoon were joined by fifteen members of the class of ’57 of Middlebury College, and five or six seniors from Dartmouth. All were guests of the Amherst class, which had inaugurated the … Read more

How Colonel Enoch Hale Lost The Toll Bridge