update and expand upon that and recruited me to do the history of the business is around underhill flats and so that's what we're here to talk about  tonight so this is and you'll find through my show some of the pictures work maybe obvious as to where they might have been taken and so i've got a few modern pictures i've thrown in the kind of orient people and then we'll fade onto s it was taken by a man named richardson from st albans and we have a couple of others of his pictures one of which is dated eight hundred sixty eight so i'm presuming this was probably could have very well been taken on the same trip through town the and the covered bridge that you saw in the distance in the previous picture this is a close up of it this was the bridge over browns river at riverside and was replaced with the present bridge in one nine hundred thirty three quirky thing about this is you can notice from this picture it's more perpendicular to the river it's not parallel to the road and horse and buggy days probably didn't make much difference but when you start going through there with automobiles you couldn't really see who was coming in the other direction so it made it interesting now the business is in the flats there really wasn't much what you call industry in the flats it unlike say jericho corners that didn't have the water power available there was a tannery on the ring broke and kind of in back of where the underhill service center is now there was a steam powered starch mill for a time but that was about it in the way of manufacturing so most of what was in the flats was commercial rather than industrial and one of the first stores in the town in the eighteenth thirty's burned down and so the tower and oh yes this was john tower and henry oaks built a new store on the back side of the park which is this building john tower was the town clerk for nine years in the postmaster for eighteen and i guess also must have been a justice of the peace because he was known as judge tower and apparently quite a character quite a large man and  e said he often want to around dressed in a black suit and a high hat and so on so rather than imposing character and his partner henry oakes was postmaster for three years as well then in eight fifty four the store was taken over by there any p u the new england protective union and apparently it at that time there was a movement i'm guessing pretty much over new england to start up these union stores which would have the ability to buy pretty items you know if they're buying a bigger  big get a better price on that so there was kind of a cooperated venture and this was the the version of that store in underhill there was also one in jericho another one in jerko center one time and this was  didn't last too long and then it was sold to louis cotton about eight hundred fifty seven and apparently whether the store had not been painted or something i don't know what but about the time that he bought the store it became known as the white store so i'm wondering if they had you know did a paint job or something in it where he got his nickname from and you see that in their advertisements and so on for quite a number of years that so and so's doing business in the white store  in eight hundred sixty eight it was taken over by darwin french he ran in a couple of the stores in town for a little while but ran it up until eight hundred eighty five and then moved on to north adams massachusetts and worked in a printing business which at the time i'm thinking oh yes is you know i got a print shop where they're printing books or whatever well turns out it was a factory that printed patterns on cough and apparently became the president of the company and ended up being a millionaire which in that day was quite an accomplishment and it was and so on and also put in a furnace to have it was heated by steam heat as opposed to so or whatever and he also ran a nother store in north woke up so he was quite the business man  in one direction but when terrell was in the store his son george at that time was running the bookstore and so that pretty much was the grocery end of the business and this building was more clothing in apparel and that sort of thing and when barrows took it over it continued along that same line with the clothing in business as you can see from the advertising on the building  as was grace foster who had moved from johnson and she ran the business with with mr mason for a couple of years and then he sold out his interest of it to frank simpson and then it became the prosper in some sense or and then one nine hundred thirty four frank simpson took it over on his own and that's sort of the time period that this is probably this was in the late thirty's maybe  and this is mr simpson and miss foster inside the store for a number of years the post office was on the around on the side of the building and this was the state picture here was taken in one nine hundred fifty nine but which was probably about the time that the store closed and was the building was converted into apartments then we get to the brick store which as you probably use is pretty obvious to most people where that is  it was on the location of frederick fletcher's nice brick house which was torn down to build this store about eight hundred fifty six by a man named george simmons and for the next oh twenty years or more it seems to have gone through both a succession of owners and a successor and of businesses the store was not always run and owned by the same party so there was a lot of people coming in fairly short order over those years and eight hundred eighty three l f terrell got in there and his son george as we've talked about so l f had the store for a while and also about that same time was when they were starting to establish the telephone exchange in underhill and the switchboard was located in the store for a while we'll hear a little more about the telephone a few minutes and one thousand eleven c n cycles moved into the store he had previously been well what you would know today is jacob's store  one of the interesting things in the one nine hundred thirteen underhill telephone directory struggles amongst selling the general merchandise in the store and on the side of it there was not too clear in the picture but this is harnesses and sold parker race now really going down park street this is when the white store was elsie fowler and again you  see the sign here that at that point the post office was over here the post office seemed to have moved fairly frequently and and this so this is looking down park street this house and that house are still where this right here is the roof of jacobs store and everything else that you see around here is long gone we'll see some better pictures of that and then  and in conjunction with l c fowler's store business he had this warehouse which this what you see right here is the front of jacobs store to kind of orient where you are and you can see from the sign right across through here was the railroad tracks so they could you know pull up the train cars there and on the loads of merchandise into the warehouse right directly from the train cars and eventually as the store business declined in the railroad one out of business and so forth the building was moved up fifteen and is now part of a house next door to the soko station this to orient you this is the parking lot of jacob store and this is another view of elsie feller's warehouse from the front of you can see the the railroad tracks going through and this of the jacob store would be just out of the picture on the right this building over here originally was a harness maker shop and then later was converted to a blacksmith sho a bird's eye view taken up on the the hillside looking down the villages is only a portion of the whole picture so this is what you know now today is jacobs which at that time was built about eight hundred eighty seven by homer thompson and he would owned a number of businesses around the area shortly after building the store he also ended up building a ten shop  and the up stairs of the store apparently was for lack of a better description of a room something like this one and it was known as thompson's hall and there's various you know entertaining i lived at that time there was a lot of different you know groups that were traveling around the countryside they would stop in different towns putting on some kind of a show or other and a lot of the things in that time in the and homer thompson died in one thousand nine hundred five and thomas thorpe took over operation of the store as the administrator of his estate shortly after that he died and his son only a one story porch and then it some point he added on the second story both both pictures have his name on the building story together and parker continued after his father died nine hundred thirty seven and this is a little different view of that this this is while rice was running the store but meanwhile this shows the underhill mill which homer thompson had built in one thousand ninety three and that was sold after he died and  continued on by a man named pendleton for a while and then sold jasper foster who ran it for a long many years jasper foster was a brother to grace foster that ran the white st now this is pretty much the same picture that you saw a minute ago taken as near as we can tell about eight hundred ninety this is a similar view taken about five years later in here you've got this building here and over here you don't and in fact supposedly some of these buildings were homer thompson's tin shop and the whole history of that is pretty  ten shop but it's not really clear if gallup's was in in these buildings or somewhere else for a period of time eventually gallop settled here but you know as to when which building was constructed and taken down and how it was all  arranged one thing it's kind of interesting in this picture this house right here is what today is milton's house on the corner of g r place only and when it was first built it had a flat rough today that they've added where they bought the property here so whether they were renting it from him for a time or were in business somewhere else it's not at all clear and then in one nine hundred sixteen they tore down that little house that had been right on the spot and built this what was known as the gala block so this is the house that was herbert goodwin's that was torn down this is the building that was behind the gallery block until fairly recently and that when i like back in the fifty's and sixty's when i read first remember that was where the shot was and the building in front was more of the hardware business and again you can see that the closer up to the polish warehouse in the grist mill by the way i was saying earlier about there wasn't much industry in underhill because of the lack of water power the gristmill was actually operated first by a gas engine and i have heard a couple of variations on it but one was that they had some kind of a mechanism where they would burn soft coal and extract the gas from it and then the gas was what ran the engines and by the time  electricity came through town of course they quickly and converted to electricity in fact i think the out owners of the mill were some of the people we kind of pushed to get electricity through town i was about nine hundred twenty three or so and this is a couple of the different views of the gallup block once it replaced the earlier though that building where the tin shop was you can see in behind it and the hardware store was in this part in this middle part was a  apartment and again you see that the shot of no one's house on the flat ro started operating a filling station along with their hardware business and see the the mobile gas pump there they had gas that was brought in in the course tanks on horse drawn wagons and it first it was stored in five gallon cans and then when you needed some for your car or whatever they'd strain it through a shammy to take out any water that might have accumulated in the gasoline and in more recent times the last of of davi operating the business now that the hardware business wasn't what it had been and so he took up the the tinsmith end of it again making protect particularly the copper dippers and the copper lamps and those proved to be quite popular he sold many of those or down the riverside on route fifteen kind of in front of the jolly store and what we're looking at here is that the white building here in the picture is the  which is a little more hidden in the trees there the the farmhouse next to it was yes what kim's farm as well as running a store there's some indication the store might have started out in the eight hundred forty is the ten shop but i'm not i've not really found definitive information about that and by about eight hundred forty five this was fitted up as another union store now whether this was part of the n e p you i'm not totally sure if it was another organization but similar sort of operation and yes what kim operated for them for a short time and then he took the store over on his own and operate it for about twenty and about eight hundred eighty five they'd sold out the business to elliot shapen who operated it for about six years and we'll hear a little bit more about him in a minute and then eight hundred ninety one it hundred ninety two a post office was established in riverside and the post office was located in the store as well eight hundred ninety three the business was sold a chancy hayden chancy hayden figures in the history of the flats in a couple of ways he was a schoolteacher and also ran a couple of stores in town at the time he bought this business and eight hayden and he operated this store until nine hundred eleven when he built another store across through fifteen so you can sort of picture uproot fifteen here crossing route fifteen so they went just in back of the store and so when this was a post office they had it rigged up so that is a train went by they just you know throw the mail bags out onto the ground and they'd pick them up and they had a pol hooked up with the outgoing they could hang the outgoing mail on a hook and the train had a hook on the side of the car that would grab it off from the pole without having to stop to pick up the mail and and by that point they are various times are still have some amount of store business in the store and then over here this building was built and that was a luncheon at and i believe if i remember from looking at this picture of the magnifier i think this building in the middle was restrooms and the other thing is it doesn't show up too well in this version of the picture but that's a real curiosity is what this is out in the background it almost looks like they're building a bridge across the river something but you know i've never known of anything being there so i'm not at all sure what that was about the other thing it's kind of interesting is you know that this area up in here today is what's mills or recited park to notice how open the countryside is how much it's grown up in the last seventy or eighty years  little earlier we had mentioned eliot chaiken having run the store for a while after he moved out of here he went up onto the can some street and operated a store up there and then about eight hundred ninety six soul that business out to w c stevens and this is another one of those things that history is not too clear on probably six or eight years ago now and it was a home that burned and they rebuilt it but before it burned a had large front windows in it that just looked like a store building so whether that could have been the same building that they later moved or i'm not totally and then about nine hundred fifty eight mills built a store beside what was the tom hayden store on route fifteen and then later became big john's and jollies now we're going from stores to hotels in the wild i was going to say pre op immobile but especially pretty real road days travel was relatively slow and so almost every town had a hotel and most often associated with a livery stable because you know people can only travel a certain distance in a day's time and if you're going long distance you probably needed to stop somewhere so one of the earliest hotels was on route fifteen at the corner of raceway if you're if you are in the middle of route fifteen looking down the raceway would be the building that's on the right hand corner of the store where it's an apartment house today but at that time it was known as the bass house and by the very early eighteen hundreds like maybe even maybe seven hundred ninety nine or one thousand nine hundred it was operated by nathaniel bostwick which leads me to house just down the road at this that previous picture of you can picture where that was about halfway between raceway and jolly store on the left side fifteen and that is where the  located and in eight hundred forty three arthur's daughter sally married rufus brown who came into the family and took  partnership with his father in law running the hotel and through the years they added on to it expanded the business and in eight hundred forty nine rufus brown bought the hotel from his father in law operated it up until eight hundred sixty six all this is kind of an interesting picture this is taken from the front porch of the bostwick house looking up at mount mansfield was the intent of the picture but it's kind of interesting to this day and age somewhere kind of right along up around through here would be river road coming so right around in here is where the browns are middle school is and you know this bank is still there right next to their while you're around outside the school and an eight hundred sixty six the hotel was bought by leonard dixon and became known as the vixen house and at that time compared to the earlier probably from about here over is the original hotel and from about here over this way was expanded by dixon and just down below out of the picture is where the railroad went through and so once the railroad was in place he was getting a lot of well one of the things when he added on to the hotel that he added on was a dance hall and so then the trains are bringing people not just locally but that through the trains are able to bring people even up from burlington and so they were quite often and now have dances there  was a dining room associate of the hotel so people you know come there to have meals and and what have you and he had operated up until eight hundred eighty six when he passed on and in started doing some renovations to fix the building up and so on well apparently they weren't too careful in what they were doing in january eleventh eight hundred ninety one because of some of the repair work the building caught fire and burned to the ground and they were able to save a lot of the furniture out of the hotel which it turns out was taken up to thompson's hall that we just talked about and he had over the next period of several weeks and months had sales there selling off what he was they had been able to salvage now were up at the other end of the flats what up until recently had been the flower shop bakery and cafe that sarah white had operated and had been started by paul and roberta gillespie they actually had started the business down the brick store and then moved up here before this before they had their business in there it had been the countryside florists for a time and before that was the post office and then a little earlier on the same site was the custer house another one of the under hills hotels this was built about eight hundred eighty seven by paddy a swappable and about ten years later it was  sold ira lincoln and operated it until nine hundred fourteen when this again caught fire and burned amazing how many how much change occurred a building contractor and also to some extent an architect and so the the story always was that some of the nifty little details on this building he had added on so that if somebody was interested in his building something for them he could show them some of his capabilities over the things that he could do and this was operated up until the one nine hundred twenty s and after that they only operated it in the summers and the business was closed in the winter and he passed in the way in one nine hundred thirty three and at that time it was closed up for good although as widow ruth lived there for quite a number of years and then in the and other overnight accommodations was on river road near the corner of park street known as the fairview house originally started about one thousand nine hundred by frank jackson and by about one thousand five it been taken over by thomas and kerry bruce and in conjunction with which they had a model livery and it talks about this is the same spot a few years earlier on the right this building right here was a blacksmith shop started by samuel bliss about eight hundred forty seven and he operated it up until eight hundred ninety three when he was i mean well into his seventy's if not into his eighty's and before he finally retired and it went through a succession of other blacks mess will gains howard he and eventually by probably the late one nine hundred twenty s and it closed down in blacksmithing not being too necessary a business by that point and the l it appears was owned by ed sinclair at that point and he sold it to the library association to build the library there and it was stipulated in the deed that he was to remove the buildings that were on the lot to make it available to build the library and in fact he was the person that did build the library  another view of the library i just love the stop sign to this back when stop signs were yellow and black is probably going to be a little hard to figure out but it is is if you're standing in front of the ross and library in the middle of river road looking past the houses on the other side of the road to route fifteen so if you if i've got you oriented same view this again right kind of right along through there is more and here is route fifteen and then this right here and going up through here is the railroad tracks where they were going across route fifty in the the crossing being barely just barely out of the picture the building had been a barn that was converted into a garage in one thousand and fifteen by earl cross and at that time it was fairly common that people put their automobiles up for the winter and so a lot of times his business would be going to somebody's house in the spring to get the car tuned up and ready to go as much as people coming to the garage but that was now what repair work he did on site and of course this is the backside of it you would access to from fifteen now this is down in the the fork of the road route fifteen and river road and this is a garage built in one nine hundred twenty one by earl's father will cross so i could barely for a little while they were competitors and then they expanded the garage and this is basically the building that is still there today other than this the front part of the canopy has been removed and taken back but again this is as route fifteen river road over here and you can see the railroad tracks again going through there on the right hand side was we'll in the lillian crosses house and in addition to just being there house mrs  ran the deer head to room and they was served lunches and so on and also of a sort of you know i guess what you think of today is sort of as a bed and breakfast they did accommodate a few people to stay hour up to another garage in the middle of the flats most often known as underhill garage started in one nine hundred eighteen by mike's boulder edwin irish and went through a succession of owners over the next oh ten years or so but most of the time max bogue seemed to have figured in it in one way or another one hundred twenty two we owned it for it on his own for a year then he went into partnership with george willard for a year then back on his own for a year that was sold to albert model and williams in one thousand twenty five and besides the garage business they also were became an agency for  on carried on the business on his own one nine hundred thirty eight started to take took on the international truck dealership and as business expanded and parking didn't he bought the house next door which had been effie's lunch and tore that down to make the parking lot that's there today a texaco station and today's eight as a young man apprenticed with a carpenter that lived down in riverside and learned the carpentry trade and eighteen forty nine went to california at the time of the gold rush and built some of the first frame buildings and sonora county california also did carpentry work building solutions for the miners and things of that sort stayed there for about three years and then came back to underhill in eighteen and an eight hundred fifty eight he graduated from the u v m medical department then went to new york city for a year of schooling and about hundred sixty opened up his medical office in this house which is a crossed route fifteen from the park and with lots and i believe it is the business was on the offices were on the right hand side of the house in the living quarters on the left and about eighteen seventy one oh about eight hundred seventy he besides his medical office he started a drug store in the house as well and about eight hundred seventy one they moved across the street into this building and this building right in the edge of the picture you can see a little of was the methodist church and so in about this time w scott name went into business retire and so dr ne bought the the drug business from him at that point and so continued the his medical practice plus running the drug store and then on august eleventh  it was a house as you look at this picture it would have been a couple of houses over to the right had an oil stove that exploded and caught the house afire and before they knew it it caught the house next door to it a fire and before they could do anything about  is in the pre fire department days they tried to organize a bucket brigade but there wasn't much of a water supply and so then it cut into the drugstore well they thought that at least the slate roof on the church would keep that from burning but it didn't that caught fire next and on the other side of the church was the grange hill and i also burned so the  that's the aftermath so you can you can see the car well it's now the united church of underhill with the former congregational church what was the white store now apartments in there what's interesting is look at the roof here where they've put the wet blankets to keep that building from catching  they said both the store and the congregation church did catch fire but they were able to put them out so they save the buildings so fairly soon after  that they did rebuild so this is the new drug store of dr nay and the new methodist church and  now we're standing in the middle of park street looking back across the park toward route fifteen  fred king had a barber shop in there they were able to save most of the king's furniture out of the house but the barber equipment was lost in the fire same spot in a little earlier era the this building on the right was elbridge neely's jewelry store he had started out in i think about nineteen away in jerko center with a jewelry business had gone to burlington and studied to enhance his skills with a jeweler at a jewelry store in burlington and about nineteen i guess about one thousand eight that he came to underhill and built the store and started the jewelry business here and again in that era it was a little of everything so besides jewelry so watches clocks silverware sporting goods antiques new unused furniture  by the early one nine hundred twenty s he had taken charles scribner i don't it was in the partnership or it was just renting out part of the store to him or whatever and he was selling electrical supplies and appliances plus insurance and real estate and the this building right here we'll see again and in a another picture here in fact there it is that was the barber shop of franklin who was the person on the left in the doorway there and here he operates out from one thousand eight to one nine hundred thirty four and you can see the the train cars sitting over by the station in the background and in what's now kind of the long end of the united church parsonage you say that there was a barn there one time and eventually the i don't know if the if this building was incorporated into the jewelry store or if it was torn down but the building that was the jewish store was expanded out so it was was larger and about nineteen thirteen the fire department was first organized and at first they had just i guess like a two wheeled cart with some kind of a chemical tank on it which was kept in one of these barns back here for a little while i know i've found reference in one nine hundred fifteen where it was in there well not too long after that they made a had a garage door opening in the middle of the jewelry store building and the fire truck was kept in there and we'll hear a little more about that before i leave the jewelry business apparently after mailing went out of business somewhere in the one nine hundred forty s there was some kind of a variety store and in the building i've never found much information about who or what that was and then in the late and early sixty's a man named wiley dan forth had an antique store in there for a time and then eventually was converted into apartments now we're back down on dickens and saint so kind of from here up around would be river road and going out dickinson street to there and somewhere kind of right across through here would be the railroad tracks going cross because you can right there see the the crossing sign look out for the engine  the the building on the left with a big tall smokestack was the steam sawmill again no water power so the sawmill was was powered by steam engines built about eight hundred seventy six by gilbert and robinson but like most of these other businesses they didn't operate too long and went through a couple of other owners and by the early eighteen eighties ended up being owned by what cumin day the same people that had run the storage out of riverside and we'll hear more about them the minute they were one of these people would seem to have their finger and a number of the businesses around the area in eighteen eighty eight  gov urban woodbury as a part of the e j booth lumber company from burlington and that was kind of in the heyday of burlington's lumber business down on the the waterfront where the boat house is today  august fifth eight hundred ninety three the mill caught fire and burned and it was just had a devastating blow to the community they had a a monthly payroll of about thirty six hundred dollars which in those days was pretty significant for the area but it was very shortly rebuilt by george terrell the person who'd run the brick store and darius knight  september first eight hundred ninety four it burned again just over a year later but once again it was rebuilt by october of that year it was back in operation again  ninety seven was being run totally by mr knight who ran it up until about one thousand and ten when it was sold to harm howard this is a view looking back in the other direction this is probably taken somewhere kind of in back of jacobs store in that open area looking back so that the mill is here those houses you can see right in there are on route fifteen near the corner of raceway raceway would be somewhere in right in there so this is looking kind of southwest and  in that era they said they were in eight hundred ninety three there was a mint one and a half million board feet of logs in the ared and they were bringing them in of the rate of fifty thousand feet a day eight hundred eighty six they shipped out two million board feet of lumber on the railroad so it was a one of the biggest sawmills in northern vermont for a number of years and as i say it was then about one thousand ten sold parm howard and this was what it looked like during his era again you can see the railroad care setting there that they're loading lumber onto later the milburn down for a third time but again it was rebuilt and operated by another number of other people bill irish lynn moulton house and sweeney aaron's on up until probably the early  thirty s before it finally went out of business and this was just such a neat picture i thought i'd throw in how they brought logs in the one nine hundred twenty s into the mill this is taken them parked right in front of the brick store on the flats this is george white's truck right is george white was pretty well known around town at the time he in the one nine hundred fifty s was still drawing logs and then worked for the state highway department plowing route fifteen in the wintertime for many here again would be dickinson street now we're back down on river road ross and library would be just out of the picture to the right this is the house that's kind of in front of the middle school the id school and this is the same spot we were speaking earlier about which human days businesses well this is what came in days cheese factory which was built about eight hundred seventy three and at that time cheesemaking was a pretty big operation in the area i eight hundred seventy six they bought a mill on silly hill road down in jerko just to supply them with cheese boxes for their cheese business and had the capacity to make up to fifteen hundred fifteen thousand cheese boxes per year so there were making quite a lot of cheese took in the milk from between six hundred thousand cows eight hundred eighty eight they sold the business to the cheese factory association and by eight hundred ninety three cheese making it kind of got out of fashion and they shifted to butter making put in a separator and by store there in riverside and his son wendell operated the business and same old story september fifth one nine hundred twenty three it burned down the site was sold shortly after th so now are we're back up in the in the flats looking at the park this is what we talked about a few minutes ago that was dr burdick's house and you can see the united church here in the background the brick stores kind of hiding behind the trees there the building on the right hall another one of those buildings that has kind of a uncertain i guess is the right word history for it bill and eight hundred ninety two by a man named jim wilbur presumably as a store and there's numerous ads at that time free store run either by people named payne in robbins or the pain brothers depending on what reference you look at and there's no evidence that wilbur ever ran it so i'm guessing that he built it and then decided to go out of the not to get into the store business and and it was taken over by pain in robin's people and then about eight hundred ninety eight there seems to be reference to its being the grange saw and apparently it went through a small period where it was  a a store and then the grange took it over there also was referenced somewhere around that time period out in the basement of the store and there is a different picture of it that shows the ground kind of drops away in there so there was ground level access to the basement somebody had a i could butcher shop in the basement  and so this is the the new methodist church that was built after the fire in one thousand six this building here originally had been about where the clutter burned building is beside the united is a trim board right down the kind of the right edge that door in the front of the building was open and had pillars and at some point they closed the front end and then apparently after the fire in one thousand six it was moved from over beside the congregational church over here and was used for the by the methodists as their parish house now meanwhile it was spoken minute ago the fire department had had their fire engine in the middle of the neely block well in one nine hundred thirty six they built this building and that became the second fire house and town and had double the capacity now it's got to open to garage openings and that was built built the new fire station up on the the site of where the existing station is today and it was there until the station is now there was built a few years ago  now we're back on park street basically a crossed looking across the road from the driveway into the parking lot of the united church this is  and they ended up getting married he moved into the house with her decided in about one nine hundred twenty four g they'd build this building here and have a dance hall well this was in the middle of and so this is the mansfield theater seated about two hundred people admission was thirty five cents a silent  piano in there and somebody would play the piano to accompany the movies and once talkies came along they converted over to the equipment they could play the talkies on and is that years went on they developed a circuit around and they had portable projectors that they would take to other towns around the area on certain nights and show movies in different towns as well and that's operated up until nineteen thirty seven now the building you see right there is the edge of the movie theater so this is the next house up the road this was we spoke earlier of darwin french that are on the white store this house was built when he got married married to one of the media roles and they built this house and lived in for a time until we moved massachusetts and later on pearly and alice king moved into the house and is we spoke earlier and in eight hundred ninety one the telephone system was starting to get a stablished in underhill the first portion of it there was a phone in the custer house center and it was being extended into essex and by eight hundred ninety seven the switchboard was in the bookstore then it moved over to dr ney's drugstore by nine the switchboard moved over into king's house and this is alice king sitting at the switchboard and that continued there from one nine hundred thirty eight and it was in her house from one nine hundred thirty eight until the dial system came along in one nine hundred fifty five and a couple years later a man in roswell butler from essex was driving a stage a nation yellow concord coach from burlington to stansted crack and in the winter time they changed over to enclose sleighs and by eighteen sixties they had a stage that was coming from essex twice a day to the halfway house up in stevensville and they would stop at the well by that time it was the dixon house with staff there for meals on the way and of course that kind of the kybosh got put to that when the railroad came through an eight hundred seventy seven and so after that there was l a davis and mr billings both ran stagecoaches from the railroad station in the flats up to the center and if people were coming to go up onto the mountain or whatever and as the railroad got more established they started a and made an offer where you could take the train from burlington to underhill and then transfer from the train to the stage to make the trip the rest of the trip up to the halfway house two dollars and twenty five cents for a round trip the railroad  hundred seventy six they'd got from jericho to burlington completed and eight hundred seventy seven the whole line was completely clear through to cambridge junction and they did  a lot of a lot of shipping out of underhill one thing that i guess was kind of surprising and we already spoke about the other shipping a lot of lumber from here but one thing i didn't realize that was kind of surprised about is underhill was a big potato growing area and in eight hundred eighty six they shipped a fifteen thousand bushels and eight hundred ninety eight hundred carloads of potatoes another big item was maple sugar and maple syrup  hundred eighty nine they shift chip two hundred ten barrels of syrup and also an eighteen in may of eight hundred ninety nine they shipped thirty tons of maple sugar george terrell who ran the brick who was one of the people that did ship a lot of the sugar also there was a man named truman barney who lived on route fifteen down the corner of brown's trace who was a big promoter of the maple industry he was an agent for the vermont f machine company in bell's falls that and sold evaporators and sugar equipment around the area he had a booth set up at some of the like the state fair in burlington he even went to the columbian exposition in chicago in one thousand ninety three and have an exhibit about maple sugar and started one of the i remember the exact name of it but the like a maple sugar makers association  of the first ones in the state really promoted the maple business there also be out of this picture over on the left hand side across the tracks  kind of what would be behind the united church parsonage today there were stock yards there there was a man by the name of michael murphy they lived up on poker hill but he shipped many carloads of stock out of there and when they hit one point they rebuilt the stock yards and he was the one behind the doing it is designed the layout of it and so forth and apparently at that time the road from arch street went in a circle around past the stock yards and those scales there they could weigh the stock on a one by the way house and so on and that looped back around by the way station and just this between the station and park street there also was a creamery so that people could know whatever business they had to transact they could do it on the loop and apparently the especially i guess the way house was kind of a i hangout where people would come and know to chat and pick up the local news and so on you know when you probably know where that is done joll same view that's the the train coming in the riverside from jer but as times went on and automobiles came into use and it may have nine hundred eighteen guy benedick started a bus from underhill into burlington this being the  bus i think this picture is taken somewhere over on barbara firm road jerko actually but that's that's benedict's bus use that for a few years and then eventually changed to a fifteen passenger international bus  i think that picture is about nine hundred thirty nine and we talked earlier about effie's lunch next to the underhill garage this is a view of that she had like a lunch room in here and once the buses started running this became the under whole bus terminal as well if you went down the porch on the other side in the back and out the back part of the house her husband charlie had a tailor shop he was a tailor and at that time the post office in underhill was in what's now the house the next house up route fifteen from the brick store and i've heard him tell that charlie had some kind of a business this is up across from the old academy building or what's now green mountain foam in the flats some of you probably remember when this was dr townes office about nineteen had lived here from about eight hundred seventy to one thousand nine hundred and he was a lawyer and so this extension on the house was his law office and it's not obvious in this picture or somewhere how to write in the middle it was also a second door into the building so one of the entrances was into his law office the other one was the post office he was also the postmaster from eight hundred eighty five to eight hundred ninety six from eight hundred seventy seven eight hundred ninety nine he was also the town clerk he was also the school superintendent and the commander of the jr post no use very well known in town our one nine hundred forty dr town moved his office there from this was something that really the rest of my talk really isn't too much to do with businesses but in the process of doing the research i found a number of little historical tidbits and things of interest that were just too good to pass up so i threw a few extra couple houses south of the drugstore in the flats is toward the end of his life and the interesting thing was that he took up riding the bicycle at the age of seventy nine he'd never ridden a bicycle before that and in one nine hundred thirty seven at the age of eighty four he rode from here to chicago and back and the next year he did it again and the  bicycle at least shown in the in the bottom picture was one that a bicycle company in chicago had given him when he was out there and because of his age he had a woman's bicycle because it was easier for him to get on and off and in october of one nine hundred thirty nine just short of his eighty seventh birthday he was riding up to fifteen just north of the flats and had a nice accident they think  he put the handbrake on the front wheel on too hard and it pitched him over the handlebars into the road and he died as a result of the accident and so that's that was a picture was taken it is funeral with his bicycle and this is inside the methodist church what's now green from business the the railing around the front of the church organization that was organized after the civil war a lot of the the veterans of course got to know each other really well during the war and hated to see it and they the camaraderie and so the organized and pretty quickly individual posts all over the northern part of the country sprung up and the one in the in underhill was known as the  pretty soon they got kind of sick of that they really wanted a building of their own and so by eight hundred eighty nine they had decided they were going to form a committee to see what they could do about building a hall for themselves and in may of that year they had a small piece of land that was donated to him by warren morehouse and in june they started laying the foundation for the building and had it completed and had their dedication there in september of that year and by that time they had also organized a custer camp number seven of the sons of veterans and the woman's relief corps and even before the building was completed in august i believe it was the women's relief corps held a supper in the first floor of the hall to help defray the expenses of building the building and the first floor the front of it was a dining hall basically and in the back of it was a kitchen area and then the up stairs second floor was there a and they say the first of june they laid the foundation the end of june they'd completed the framing the roof was shingled and closed the building closed in biologist and dedication september eleventh eight hundred eighty nine and they had a an all day celebration that started out with a flag raising on the flag pole that had been donated to him i've wondered horses obviously is a black and white picture but just looking at that chimney i wonder if that wasn't painted red white and blue and it's certainly got a white section in the middle and they had field sports in the morning dinner at noon a ballgame in the afternoon and that's one of those curious things you find that i haven't found the answer to it was held at kennedy's meadows and they marched from the hall to the meadows so those could have been too far away but i have no idea where the ball field in town would have been at that time the sons of veterans played the william wells camp of the son of veterans from burlington and at two thirty in the afternoon they held exercises in the hall supper at five and then the evening they had a dance by the with music provided by the howard opera house orchestra from burlington this is a view of the interior of the hall shortly after it was built not too long after this window on the right was converted to a door and a second means of access a fire escape if you will was added on plus across the the front of the building they did build a stage and this is a ribbon that a veteran would have worn from the bostwick post that ribbon actually was something that was given to my father by simple man who was a civil war veteran and there were several other fraternal organizations in town one of them was that mount mansfield lodge of the i o g t the international order an independent order of good templars which was a temperance organization by eight hundred eighty four they were holding meetings also in the academy building and in eight hundred eighty nine they had a state convention was held here in the t people over there for dinner there again the dinner being a fundraiser for to support the construction of the