Vermont Historical Society
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Vermont's state historical society, an independent nonprofit, located in Montpelier and Barre.
Barre, Vermont
Joined June 2012
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RT @vermonthistory: Hey folks: we have a small programming note for you: we’re going to be discontinuing our use of Twitter. To continue…
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Reminder: we’re no longer on Twitter. You can find us on a bunch of other places 👇
Hey folks: we have a small programming note for you: we’re going to be discontinuing our use of Twitter. To continue to get updates and notifications from us, here are the other platforms where you can follow along:
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Happy #Caturday! Here's a couple of items from our collection from the Catamount Brewing Company of White River Junction: pamphlet, and a cardboard 6-pack bottle holder from 1987.
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RT @MikeHoeyNews: Who occupied Mt. Independence in Orwell during the brief period it was a Revolutionary War fort? Steve Perkins of the @ve…
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He provided material for our oral histories, loaned items to our exhibit, and was featured in our podcast Before Your Time:
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RT @MikeHoeyNews: Here's Lake Champlain in Orwell from Mt. Independence, a former Revolutionary War fort. @FortTiconderoga is in the distan…
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Get more Vermont History in your inbox! We send out a regular newsletter, History Happenings, to subscribers every other week with updates about our programming, exhibits, and history and more! To get it, sign up here:
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In this episode of This Place in History, we take a look at the history of Camel's Hump, one of Vermont's most iconic features:
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Here's an image from our Coolidge Family Papers collection: it's titled "Discuss problem of war's disabled" and features President Calvin Coolidge and an unnamed individual in the White House garden to discuss the problems veterans from the First World War were facing.
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99 years ago today: Barre's monument to the fallen soldiers of World War I was officially unveiled. The statue is called "Youth Triumphant" and was carved from Barre granite. 15,000 people turned out for the event. Here's our video about the statue:
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It's #Caturday! This is a picture taken by George W. Perry in 1897, of the monument at the site of the Catamount Tavern, which was an important site in Vermont's early history. The tavern burned down in 1871, and the statue was put here in its place in 1896.
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The Vermont Historical Society will be closed today (Friday, November 10th) in observance of Veteran's Day. The Vermont History Museum in Montpelier will reopen for its normal hours tomorrow, (Saturday, November 11th).
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WCAX-TV profiled one Robert McMaster's paper “Against the Odds: Edward Hitchcock and the Vermont Geological Survey” in our latest edition of Vermont History, about some of the challenges that the survey faced in its early years. Watch the interview here:
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We're looking for an educational intern for our Service & Outreach department for spring 2024! For details on the internship and how to apply, visit here:
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Tomorrow (November 9th): we kick off our Virtual Speaker Series with Mercedes de Guardiola to talk about the history of eugenics in Vermont. This is a virtual talk, and will take place at noon. Register to attend here:
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Thanks to VTDigger for profiling our author Mercedes de Guardiola and her book "Vermont for the Vermonters"! You can read the full article here:
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Aftermath of the 1927 flood in Montpelier and 96 years later on the same spot.
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