ok i guess we're ready now what i'm trying to do tonight is show some old pictures along with some new pictures of the same areas the kind of give an idea how jerko and underhill of change through the years  one thing that i have discovered in the process of putting this together going around trying to take new pictures that i think you know we'll also see as well as we go along here is how much growth there has been in the trees and bushes and so forth around town and so it's ended up that there are some places that you really can't go and take a modern picture and so on my title page cherry did include a few pictures that i really couldn't go back in and take a modern picture of very well for one reason or another growth being part of it the top one is the meeting room in the former g d r hall that was up in underhill flats which unfortunately we lost to a fire about a year and a half ago this picture here is the locomotive number three twenty eight that ran off into the swamp  and was hauled out i don't have a copy of the words on there but it's kind of a cute little point the bottom part of it talks about colonel knox was the boss of me at the time he tried his best to keep me in check but nothing could stop him stop me from having a wreck the bottom left picture is of the mill site number four down in jerko corners at the end of mill street this picture was taken from what today would be on the bank in back of the jerk o town hall but that whole bank is grown up to trees and it's impossible to take a picture of that area today the picture in the center and the bottom is the grange hall that was formerly on the corner of route fifteen and park street up in underhill flats that burned in the fire you'll hear a little more about later this picture in the lower right is slater sawmill in underhill center about across from where the underhill town hall is now located and this picture here is what was known as parodies crossing down to jericho corners the road down here is  fifteen this these houses along here would be pump road and just out of the picture on the right would be silly hill road and that being our train going west across the crossing  it one of the time we're going to start out as you'd come into jericho and kind of work our way around jericho and then eventually work our up into underhill so this as you may recognize this  this is the same spot probably about nineteen ten from the from the look of the car the covered bridge in this picture is where up until a couple of years ago the footbridge used to be across the river when the new bridges that currently there was built they straighten the road out and straight in the curve they had to take down this building on the last on the right excuse me is the town more than we have today because travel especially before the railroad came through town was so difficult even to go into essex or alone burlington that there was a lot of local stores that pretty much people did all of their shopping  and so as that we think this picture probably was taken in the summer of eight hundred eighty six the mill that had been there was torn down largely in the summer spring and summer of eight hundred eighty five the front wall extended out toward the road in the complete tops part of the building all built new and conjunction with this instance they converted from grinding flour with millstones to roller mills and as brooks was just mentioning you can see again in the corner of the picture the platform scales that you could have driven a wagon on most of the grain came in on the railroad the mill was rebuilt by lucian how and his son frank and they were some of the people that were instrumental in bringing the railroad through town and so that grain would be shipped in from the midwest this was more than just locally grown grain shipped in from the midwest on the railroad and then carted from the railroad station over to the m wagons with big high sideboards and so i suspect probably they also weighed the incoming grain to see if they were getting what they should have on the former lawn that did come down to the road now actually the flood was in twenty seven and the rate at that point the bridge is so far above the river and it was never in any danger at all it was more just you know where the conversion from horses to automobiles and the curve of the road it was just it was just time to take it out and replace it had really nothing to do with the flood and let's put this picture standing have in front of what's today keith's insurance agency looking up toward the corner joe's snack bar and if you know you might think it's kind of a picture to include here's a picture of the same the same area probably in the late one nine hundred thirty s again you might think this might be a little  of an unusual picture to put in a show except if you take a look at what's right there apparently from what i have been told that was a truck that belonged to the jurga lumber company and i never heard any for a thing further about what happened somehow apparently they came down the hill missed the bridge and ended up almost in the river now we're on the other side of the bridge again looking at joe stack  her ratio barney and by the time this picture was taken it was the drugstore run by william and many jackson and the building on the right kind of hidden behind the trees is the grocery store built in eight hundred twenty four by william prentice and operated by a number of different people through the years months e b williams being one of the more notable ones and george woodruff in the probably the twenty's and thirty's and rotund brothers were on operated at the time at both of these buildings were destroyed by a fire in april of one nine hundred sixty three and joe's snack bar was just on the other side of the store just a driveway separating them but they managed to save that when the other two buildings burned now are at the intersection of lee river road in route fifteen looking out leigh river road the good lucia house up on the the hill on the laughed and the building in the middle for many years was the called the servants quarters probably where the hired man lived or whatever just keep note of that you'll see a little bit about that again in a minute now again there's the same goes for a house and we're looking kind of from in front of joe stack bar up to the hill house today where stan map lives in the little triangle with a memorial in the center of the roads an operated for probably into the late thirty's early forty's and it's been just a house ever since now on that same site if we go back a little further in time there was two business blocks there the building on the right was i think since the late seventeen hundreds actually the post office had been in there for a long time and by the time this picture was taken a b williams and addition to running the grocery store he also ran a drug store which was in here and the building on the left is the chest more block which was another grocery store this is a little different view of the the same area that you can kind of see the the separation between the buildings they were two separate buildings but very close together those unfortunately were all destroyed in a fire in one thousand and six you'll see as a kind of another recurring theme through this talk is how many fires that there were in the area a lot of things changed because of that or we're standing kind of on the same corner looking back down the hill at the main street stylus this picture here is not taken too many years ago but again it shows the difference between the the the curbing before and after they reworked the the intersection at the corner of lee river road now we go back a little bit further in time this is the building that was there previously which was also a barber shop and a truck came down the hill and didn't make the corner and that was the end of the building back in its better days it had been a store for the browns or maple products that was operated by george woodruff that building was originally built in the early thirty's as a meat market and for many years a meal grenier had a barber shop in there as well now if we go back even a little further this is the same area and you can see a little bit here of a foundation of a building and then on the the right another building that is the well what's often known as the barney hotel probably by the time this picture was taken it might have been renamed the beach house for and then beach took it over the foundation you just saw in the last picture was occupied by this building originally known as the pierced block built by w and eight hundred eighty one and a lot of various things were in this building over the years it had been part of the up stairs was furniture finishing finished offices for the masonic hall hundred ninety one it was sold to the home market company and that's the time period you see this it's the home market company sign and it was basically a dry goods and groceries they were selling and the building explaining the foundation you saw in the previous picture now or we're standing just barely out leigh river road looking back at the intersection and in see the apartment building  this is the the same shot sometime prior to one thousand zero for the hotel that had been built probably about eight hundred fifteen by the barney's and had been operated by various people in the barney family then i say was taken over by ferdinand beach and ran as the beach house for a number of years and lastly by a family name folsom and that burned in the one thousand nine hundred four and this is the end of the building where the drug store post office was and in some of these buildings up in the back here there also was a man named s a wright had a you will write business which i didn't think too much about to start with until i found out that mr wright had been a soldier in the civil war and it lost an arm and it just flabbergasts me that he was able to run a wheelwright shop with one arm sat empty for a while then in one nine hundred twenty nine when they replaced the covered bridge to straighten the road they tore down what had been jed verney's blacksmith shop so he came up here and built this building only as the times were changing part of it was a blacksmith shop and part of it was used for repairing automobiles and then as time went on it somewhere in the  s was taken over by the browns overstudy club in the late forty's and early fifty's the v f w used it for their hall and then it was in the late fifty's was converted into apartments now are kind of in front of that building looking up through fifteen up the hill mel star on the left and they were just a little bit further up the up the hill same spot and again the early one thousand nine hundred the house on the left was  l martin had a jury and jewelry store there in the next building beside it his wife had a military shop the next building was a brick is another view of the military shop of mrs martens that building over the years had been used for a great number of things it had been a the military shop it had been a drug store a tailor moved out of what's now keith's insurance agency but before the building they're currently in had been completed they needed somewhere to go for a little short time period so the post office moved back in there and that's when this picture was taken and that's the same spot today now we're down again on the corner kind of beside joe's slack bar looking up the hill and this is the house for many years walt and ollie johnson lived in an this is a little back still earlier time period and you notice there's a nother small building beside that house that's another one that had kind of a an interesting history this is a close up of  it we mentioned earlier eighty bradford that had his off print shop in the parish block at one time he also had it in here and he's the one that printed the jericho reporter early on was known as the chicken and reporter and then they have a more local and i did mention earlier with the original mill building down that chapman mills was built by james harvey hutchinson about ninety eight hundred fifty five and that is him sitting on the left in this picture he's the one that built the building in the eight hundred fifty s and this building also at one time had been a barber shop it had been an undertaker it had a undertaking parlors and there dr bradford the dentist had his office in there for a while multiple uses and eventually ended up being a just user residence for a while before it was turned down now we're up the hill little bit farther going down mill street and this is at the end of mill street and that's the old chair factory that had been at the end of mill street that was built in the eighteen twenty's and originally had been a grist mill was used as a pulp mill to making paper for a short time and the eighteen seventies it was turned into a chair factory and one of the things that was kind of interesting one of the types of chairs they made were cane seated chairs and they'd make the frame for the cane seat and then they'd send them out to either women or children around the area who would do that weave the  seat and then it would be sent back to the factory to have the legs and the rest of the chair assembled and if you happen to find one of these chairs today it's very difficult to retain it because the legs are sitting on top of the caning because of the way they were made after the chair factory ceased operation they mill was just used for general woodworking went through a couple of hands and was owned by augustus wo or up at the top of the hill the building on the left being the baptist church and the building on the right being the baptist parsonage both of which were built in eight hundred fifty eight and you notice this as the double entry doors which were kind of a common feature at that time although starting to phase out it's been common her lower earlier in churches you have one entry for women and one entry for men and the curious thing is as some point they've added this extra window above the two doors and i've never been able to figure out what the reasoning for that was and then today this is the m that we think probably was taken very shortly after it was built as you notice the shutters have not been put on the windows yet this church was a little bit more modern there's only has one entry door from the outside into the entryway and then there's two entries into the actual church and is in the sanctuary and cross the street the brick church that was built you go further back this is what it looked like as it was originally built the congregation apparently by the eight hundred sixty s it started to get kind of small and wasn't able to keep the building up and so the building just kind sat derelict for a few years this picture was taken in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven so this is is during the period when it was setting derelict you see one doors open and some of the windows appear to be broken what have you and about that time  the school was running out of space and needed more room and so they're thinking gee if we should take this over and use a first pool house long as the church isn't using it any longer well when the church had originally been built a dr how had donated the land with the provision that if it was ever given up as a church it would revert to the how family and so also the i'm not sure what the proper t but the regional authority for the congregation church got involved the how family got involved the school wanted it so ended up that it was a court went to a court case before they finally decided but it was found in favor of the church and remain church building so with the renewed interest in eight hundred seventy six the building was completely remodeled into the picture that you saw previously what it looks like today and this is the cross the road the jerk o town hall what you originally was the jerk o school house built an eight hundred seventy eight as a town was consolidating a lot of the one room schoolhouses into the town school are kind of standing at the edge of route fifteen looking west back toward the top of the jericho and same spot in the earlier time period this house on the right is where the dr how live that donated the land for the c somewhat earlier time period for early very early one thousand nine hundred six now or at a house out on pump road i'm not really sure how to describe it any better than that once you start out pump road and go across the bridge across the river this is out maybe a quarter of a mile on the right hand side this is what it had looked like this was at the time roscoe's printing house and that the house part of it as you can see is the same as been unchanged except it had this great huge building attached to the back of it that was the printing shop and this gentleman here  believe is a door roscoe and the one in the apron is what you can roscoe who ran the print shop is a door was his father and he lived on mill street that it was there for a relatively short period of time and while they were there they printed a newspaper one of these we saw a few minutes ago there was a jerk oh reporter these folks printed another one called the green mountain press jerko had two newspapers at the time and luckily there are some of the papers a survivor there are a wealth of information to go back and look at nowadays when putting together talks like  now we're on gristle street out a couple of houses just kind of looking back toward fifteen and that's what the same spot looked like in one nine hundred thirteen  one hundred fiftieth anniversary of the chartering of the town of jericho and so they had a big celebration to commemorate the event went on for about three or four days and programs in the journal corners in the center in a big parade and what have you and as part of the celebration they built this what was supposed to be a replica of the brown family the first settlers in jericho this is supposed to be a replica of their log cabin and as many of you probably know the story of the browns they were captured by the indians and taken to montreal and sold to the british as prisoners and so they did a reenactment of that with this cabin at the time of the hundred  s this was a truck owned by george white carrying logs down to the jerk a lumber company saw mill on the river there in the distance this is the jerk o lumber company sawmill was in the early one nine hundred sixty s converted into a home and is still a residence today this is what the mill looked like probably in the it was it was built by bally williams yes he had built an earlier mill on the site there had been numerous mills around that area mostly on the south side of the river and all of everything that was still existed at the time was and operated to probably into the late one nine hundred fifty s i can remember as a kid going down there with my father drawings august and this is kind of looking just in the other direction this is the mill office or a little further up so hill road at the intersection of hanley lane i believe this is the house where dave t hand lives today this is what it looked like in the about the turn of the century probably and earlier was the white sperm henry white and henry white's wife or father in law george smith i believe built the house river as is this this picture was taken in one nine hundred thirty eight after the railroad had ceased operation and they're in the process of dismantling the trussell and taking it out now or headed out to leave river road this is the strong farm and this originally was as far as we know built by steven lane but for many this is probably in the show hammer days now we're headed into jerko center this is on brown's trace the second house on the right past plains road and a somewhat earlier picture of it one of the people live there years back was frank hoskins who ran a blacksmith shop there now are up well today what you'd say would be about across from the community center a building that's used for apartments converted to apartments and there was kind of standing in the middle of brown's trace looking back that building right there is the same apartment building and that is the community center time and then was used from starting in one nine hundred twelve as a community hall one nine hundred thirty nine it was transferred to the high school which is next was at that time next door to it and was used as a gymnasium and that is some point in one of those iterations as when they closed in the porch as it looks today now we are standing  right at the edge of the park in jerko center just kind of walking across the park and when the trees are a little smaller green was over on the corner  and still an earlier view of the same spot that now that was built as the jerk o academy about eight hundred twenty five run as a private academy kind of a boarding school for maybe fifteen or twenty years then i think more of a almost like a of a public school up into the later eighteen hundreds i believe about eight hundred ninety nine the library went in there and also for a time around then the late night late eight hundred is an early one nine hundred was also used as the parish hall hall for the congregational church there is talking about that today i kind of wonder given the dates that i know i did i have heard too that they are some point they did heat the church because i know they caught fire from the furnace and they were able to put it out for the building burn but they said they were sure they were doing at this one point do u hold on it will get there and this is the same corner today how far the library a building it been and that's when it was still there  store in there which i'm guessing is probably about the heir of this picture there also had been a james morris that had a store in this building on the right at one time as well a little newer picture of this in the same place for to see it has the town library sign on it by that time but you could see that the way the road came it came over to kind of a sharp corner around and in the early fifty's the state highway department decided that they needed to ease the corner and so to do that they're going to come and tear the building down get rid of it just so they could make the car less sharp for mobiles well the townspeople said oh no you aren't going to so they moved it i was nine hundred fifty five and it's now you can see through the trees there the congregational church so the jerk o center store will be over here on the farther side of the green and the library is just up here as there now or over in front of the jericho country store but a lot of you probably still call themselves that was built originally by plenty of black men in the very early eighteen hundreds and it's interesting from about  was also the town clerk e h lane had been the town clerk for many years then it was taken out the store was taken over by the jordan brothers and e b jordan was the town clerk then and the jordan brothers owned it they clerk this is in the air of the jordan brothers and a mr jordan also lived in this house beside the store this is in the era when wayne nearly with the the town in rome and that was just fairly recently given up in the town still had the rights to the church basement up until probably maybe in the one nine hundred eighty s or something you know quite quite recently and this is a picture inside the store if you take a look and see how a square white post there and another dark post in the background same post now were over at the corner of brown's trace in nashville road this was presumably built by john clapp sometime before eight hundred sixty five now we're standing about where the last picture was taken only it turned around one hundred eighty degrees looking from nashville road back across brown's trace and in one nine hundred thirty nine and is typical out on dirt roads out of the specially this time of year the they start getting rough and you need to do something to clean the road up a little bit so you get the town road crew out both of these we're coming back down brown's trace and i don't imagine anybody would recognize where this is i certainly wouldn't if it's approximately in back of where lynn farnham lives today but years e this is the home of mark fashing interest alexander and it was formally for many years the home of the brown family generations of the brown family  the last of the browns to live there were ella who in this picture is the little girl and her husband oscar hail it the man seated here is her father henry brown  wife and the other two ladies are his mother and her mother he apparently was quite a bit older than his wife so that is why her mother doesn't look nearly as old as his mother now we're down on route fifteen looking back up probably standing just about in front of where the merchants bank is today and back when there were actually trees beside roof fifteen and the other interesting thing in this picture is the bar in the distance is the barn that was at the well what's now jerko east for years known as the carpenter farm which unfortunately was being renovated a few years back and collapsed in the process and this we're up now at the carpenter farms is that the houses there  today a little earlier time period little further up the route fifteen you see clark struck center here on the side right over on the corner here by the intersection of brown stra this this house here would be kind of on the corner of the laundered clark shark center now this is right at the intersection of route fifteen and brown's tra and it's interesting to know you know the how much open land there is in the background as well you noticed that there there is a we're right here in this edge of the picture you see the edge a little bit of a roof of a house this is on the corner of brown's trace looking back so you can just barely see that the little bit of that same house in the edge of the picture and looking off towards silly hill raceway in the distance originally brown strace came down and stopped a little bit short of route fifteen four and one for when each way and the little triangle of land in the sadder was where the schoolhouse was located this was the route fifteen at that time was known as church street so this was known as the church street schoolhouse it's amazing i don't know if this picture here in this copy may not be clear enough but it's amazing in the original picture i think there is a little over twenty kids in that picture there's just an amazing amount of them and we're again about at the same place just kind of standing over across the lawn the little but they're looking down route fifteen toward riverside that's probably around one thousand nine hundred to the the covered bridge at the time and again the open hillsides same spot again probably about eight hundred seventy trees growing on route fifteen at that point s the scion that is here welcome to underhill vermont the tax about the amount mansfield civic club which was a group that was organized apparently largely to promote well  at that point was when they first opened the ethan allen firing range and it appears that they had soldiers that were coming and staying on the range for some length of time so people were coming to visit their sons as there were soldiers saying there and so this group was organized to promote people tourism to the people coming and encouraging people open their houses put today you think of as a bed and breakfast where if people wanted to come and visit their soldiers they could have a place to stay and so on and so it was the sign that they'd put up to welcoming people to the area this is just barely across the bridge and i had you know i had this old picture of that house first house on the left after you across the bridge i didn't think too much of it and so i'll just throw it into the show or get out and take a new picture house and i sat looking at the roof line and something just doesn't look right here you look at where the top of the windows compared to the roof versus the top of the windows compared to there i have no explanation for it but it appears that they must've taken the roof off and replaced it with a different framing at some point there's just one of those curiosit turned up and were standing about in the same spot looking out across the mills riverside park and the barn the farm beside the park in the same spot how obliquely late one nine hundred thirty s i would guess that barn was not original to that farm but actually was built up on the range and when the firing range took the land over this was on the kinney firm and they took the barn disassembled it moved it down here and put it back together again now this would be standing in the road about in front of jollies looking up river road toward underhill  sattar as with this the same house here that at the time was a man by the name of the yes what can live there and sort of hidden in the trees here there was a store that he ran it was an e s what kim years this is what the store building looks like today is currently the home of the hackneys that's the same barn in the background that we were just talking came from the range and later the star was taken over by chance and it almost sounds like he had had a stay at the store in essex that he had owned but was run by somebody else and so when he bought this store moved his stock of goods here he hired a man to run the store while he still continued schoolteaching and eleven he built a new store across the road and so the store was taken over by  standing on river road looking across at rue fifteen in the background this red house that's across the street here from the library you can see right the very edge of the picture same spot you can s again fifteen not quite such good shape back then and this line kind of across here and down in there is the railroad tracks coming up through and want to cross through fifteen right there the building in the center you're looking at the back side of hundred twenty one his father will cross built this garage right in the fork of fifteen in river road and that's they the will cross building only it was about nine hundred thirty they expanded it and made it a little bigger and looks kind of like that and will cross his wife lily and cross in that the house where they lived next door also ran the deer had to room also i guess had facilities where they had overnight guests so kind of a what today you'd think of as a bed and breakfast a lady that was associated with the underhill historical society was able to purchase this collection of negatives and so those are still in the possession of the historical society over there there's a lot of prints of his around but at least the negatives have been preserved yesterday right over and in front of the parking lot between the id school in the middle school is the monument to the brown family the first settlers in town that was erected as a result of the sesquicentennial celebration of the founding of jerko in one thousand thirteen and at that time just over back over the bridge from here on route fifty and on the left hand side out in that meadow is where the original log cabin was when the brown family first settled here where they'd had built their log cabin where they lived on the indians attacked them and so as or in thirteen when they had the celebration they decided to erect a monument and at that time my grandfather on the meadow and so they came to him and said you know can we go part erect this monument out in your meadow where the cabin was at that time there was enough of a depression in the ground you could still tell where the cabinet stood and my grandfather said well now it really doesn't make much sense to put it way out there in that meadow nobody's ever going to see it and so common sense prevailed and they put it in the little triangle out at the corner of the say on state safety tour and so they just want to round as a promotional thing and they happen to stop here and as it is they said earl being an amateur photographer he went out and snapped a picture of it and he's got a display in the window there which i suspect may have had some connection with it as well now are looking at across the road jolly store and what the the store building looked like probably about one nine hundred sixty originally this meadow had been kind of a a low spot off the road and in the mid one nine hundred fifty s mert mills who lived up toward cambridge moved down and bought the house next door and had the ashen trash contracted for ethan allen this was in the days when the fort was still heated all the buildings were heated by coal and so part of his contract was to hollow off the ashes once it is taking him to the dump he brought him up here and fill that hole meadow and raise the level of it up and then after it had time to level and saddle he built the star building and went into the star business and originally the right hand side was his store the left hand side you can see the little rough where there was a separate entrance that was hunt's beauty shop and as business expanded for merton great smells they wanted to take over the whole build and so that's when gert went up to underhill flats and built the shop that she's still in today and again this is looking at the parking lot at jolly's same spot in the mid thirties to the train just coming up from jericho headed up to the station and under hell and just a little bit further up here is where it would go across route fifty in the crossing we saw the pictures a minute ago and also saying a minute ago about our one chance he haydon had the store building then he moved across the road and built a new one this is the new store building that he built which had been there until maybe a year or two ago when jollies tore it down made a parking lot for their employees now or just made a couple hundred feet further the fifteen looking back down what had been the railroad tracks we're another five hundred feet or so up or fifteen almost to the intersection of dickinson street i'm looking to the west and this is what it looked like in daughter was married in the bostwick house to rufus brown who went into partnership with his father in law and eventually bought his father in law and ran the hotel up until eight hundred sixty six and this is a view of the same spot from that same hotel from the other direction and say that the stagecoach here it was a man named george howell who lived in a carpenter farm that we just saw a few minutes ago who ran the stagecoach from essex junction to johnson so this is presumably one of his stage coaches and eight hundred sixty six the hotel was bought by leonard dixon and mr dixon expanded it so the now the building was longer and one of the other things that he added on the back side was a dancehall well you can tell from where this was located it was right beside the road tracks came through an eight hundred seventy seven and so as the dixon house got more popular the railroad would actually run special trains up from where they were having dances there so for for many years it was quite popular as that eight hundred eighty six leonard dixon died and the hotel was bought by dr arthur bostwick who lived up in the flats you hear more about him a minute and he was having some renovations done to the hotel in eight hundred ninety one and unfortunately something caught the building a fire and it burned down they were luckily able to save a lot of the furniture and so on out of the whole tile was lost so they've been there for almost ninety years and work on dickinson street looking east and this is in the earlier picture somewhere right about across here is where the railroad tracks one across and see the crossing sign there and this is the steam sawmill that was built about eight hundred seventy five by gilbert and robinson and they didn't run it for too long it was taken over by a what local cooperative group that ran it a little while  eakin ninety four august of eight hundred ninety four it burned ice cube in august of eight hundred ninety three and then september of eight hundred ninety four it burned a second time the second time it was rebuilt by terrell and knight  and by eight hundred ninety seven had been taken over by night himself darius knight and operated for quite a few years then was purchased about nine hundred ten by harm howard and in one nine hundred twelve it burned down again but it was rebuilt again and operated up until the mid one nine hundred twenty s and then in about nineteen sixty richard villanova who would run a sawmill up in underhill sattar moved down to the same site and built the a sawmill where not the same mill is there today but that's been rebuilt a couple of times since that is technology and proved but the same site and this is the villa news mill yard from the the northern end kind of looking back so this building here is the one that's right beside route fifty and route fifteen kind of be behind these buildings off in the distance here and that's what it looked like back when darius knight was running it i think see down here three acres of logs knights mill on the hill and this roll of houses is route fifteen and you can see that the railroad cars parked on the siding there in the middle of the mill yard at the time this was one of the largest saw mills in northern vermont in eight hundred eighty six they shipped out over two million board feet of lumber on the railroad had had a farm in a different part of underhill and then moved down here as he got to be an older gentleman live the last of his life there  framed in eighteen fifty three and finally completed in one thousand nine hundred fifty seven and largely supported by the guests that had been staying at the dixon house apparently that was in that era a lot of people didn't come you know just stop at a hotel overnight they came up from the city and may have stayed there for the entire summer and so it was in large support the bostwick had been faithful  and as as time went on to say that it is converted to change the dixon house they still that the patrons supported the church well after the hotel burned and the church lost their supporters it actually ended up closing for built a number of houses around the area in fact just in the last couple of days i've learned of two or three houses in the area that he built that i didn't know about and the story i have heard if you look at you know the all of the the different styles of towers and all the decorative trim in it is really quite an elaborate place the story was that he did all of this so that if somebody wanted him to do some work for them he could show them different things that he was able to do this was kind of like a his or at the corner of route fifteen in palmer lane this is what had been the former's waters library building that had been the home of samuel is blacksmith shop from eight hundred forty seven to eight hundred ninety three and a few other people rented out the shop after he retired as a blacksmith shop but didn't last too awful long and then in one thousand and thirty three the library was looking for a home and so they bought the lot and contracted with ed singular to tear down the buildings that existed there and build  library building and it was used as a library up until one nine hundred ninety eight when the library moved down to this building hum and this is just before you get to the up stairs as i was saying what back at the beginning of my talk the masonic lodge had been up above the pierced block in jerko and when that burned down they moved underhill and  had their masonic lodge here until they were finally able to back by the what had been the baptist church building and moved back to jer burke had been born in underhill in eight hundred twenty eight as a young man trained a little bit with a man they may come or that lived here in riverside as a carpenter and then traveled to california during the gold in prospect for gold he he made his money out there doing carpentry were built some of the first mills in the gold area sybil salue says and so on for the prospect and in fact this may come or that he had trained with also ended up coming out to california and working with him for a time so after the gold rush gold fever kind of calmed down dr bird came back to vermont and has drug store in in this building as well and at one time of the masonic lodge was also in the upstairs of this building unfortunately august eleventh nineteen zero six this building caught fire and burned and if you notice right in the edge of the picture there's also a building that was the methodist church well quite it actually happened over in a house over to the right out of the picture an oil stove that exploded and middle of the afternoon there was a man in the house he was just barely able to escape that the fire and before they could do anything to slow down that fire it jumped to this building well they thought the church was going to be safe because it had a slight rough but pretty soon the his church was on fire as well just beyond the church was the grange hall that caught fire and burned behind the church was the horse sheds and they pulled those down which then kept the fire from spreading any further although this is the aftermath and this building over here or that village right in the very edge is what's now the united church of underhill and that in this building right beside it which is the now apartments both of those did catch fire but they were able to put a mountain of the buildings are not lost and you notice this house it's all covered with blankets which they had had wet put on the roof to keep the heat that building from catching and so shortly after the fired dr ne rebuilt his drugstore the one you just saw that is the building that still are today is the apartments and this is the house immediately to the right of the drug store that again that the house that had been there burned in the fire and this was the house that dr nay had rebuilt and i just found out today this also is one that was built by ed sinclair and as it looked certainly after it was this is the same area kind of looking up the street a little different angle so this is the the same house that you just saw on the what was the drugstore now apartments now this is standing in front of that the drugstore building looking across the street on the other side and this is the house where dr verdict lived and had his office and at one time there's going to looking up through fifteen  there again in december tenth one thousand nine hundred fifty in that caught fire and burned and that was in the evening and somebody in a house next door happened wake wake up and notice the flames from the fire and so then the alarm was quickly spread there was some kind of a dance going on over at the jr hall so they sent word over there and all the people from that came rushing over and i tried to do what they could to save it but  they apparently looked like they were going to be able to so they sent word to burlington and in burlington they sent us a fire engine up to come up and see what they could do to help them out well apparently they were having quite a snowstorm at the time and so by the time the fire truck finally made it to under health the fire was already out that was something i forgot to mention to him that the drug store burned in one thousand six it was the same thing they had a bucket brigade and so on but they were at that time was no fire department or anything so they sent word again to burlington and that time they loaded a fire engine on a flat care and brought it up on the train and they made it from burlington to underhill in thirty five minutes of the train and fortunately by the time they got here on that occasion the weather had changed started to rain so they didn't have the fire engine up and use it some but apparently the rain put out more of the fire than the fire engine and this is this the close up is a little earlier shot of the same area this is the grange hall that was so just out of the picture on the right would be the methodist church that burned in the fire and the grange all is what burned as well and you'll notice this little building eighty five they added put an admission on the back of the church the church parlors and so they no longer needed that building and so it was sold to amos humphrey who was a shoemaker and he used it for his business for a time  the library was in there for a little while after the fire in one thousand six this was the new methodist church that was rebuilt at that time and this building here is what had been that chapel building beside the congregational church they enclosed originally had pillars on the front it looked about like the librarian or excuse me the post office of underhill soldered as if any of your familiar that building and they enclose the porch and moved the building over here and it became the parish  methodist church and this is what it looked like in a little bit earlier times and you notice there's another building here beside it that was built in one nine hundred thirty six and that is the first dedicated building for the underhill jerko fire department that was the fire station and now are kind of the same view a little different angle of the park same view and eight hundred eighty eight the building on the right was a store that had been built in the eight hundred thirty s by towers in oak and was used continuously as a store building up until the early one nine hundred fifty s the brick store on the other side of the park which is built in eight hundred fifty six i believe it means been used in some sort of commercial fashion pretty much up to date i know there's a story in one of the old newspapers about their building the  down just the side of fifteen just the side of the raceway had a got behind the effort and they hurried up and got everything put together just in time for the memorial day parade that year and several other pictures the park is going to through this one here all i ever found was a photocopy of a photograph so it's a terrible picture i wish i could find a better copy but it's just so interesting all the people writing on their bicycles around the park i don't know that must've been some occasion but i don't know what little bit newer picture and back up just a minute in fact one if you'll notice here that little building now that was there is gone and there's a bigger building there more to come about that and then i that the fire station here this is probably about one hundred forty this is in the park i'm guessing that's probably would have been memorial day of one nine hundred forty two erected this sign in this was when they had the unveiling you see the drapes that they had just drawn open dedicated to the soldiers from underhill that were serving during world war two and nine hundred forty one in the site here is just one one nine four and there's no ending date and at that point they didn't know how long the war was going to last and they're hoping that the ceremony to  and the same spot in the earlier time this was effie's lunch she'd run a military shop had a lunch counter there it was the bus terminal back in the days when the time he had the job of going over when the train came into the station he'd go over with a hand cart and pick the mail up at the station from the train and carry it over to the post office and they were looking back across that the brick store and george white the one on the right with another lot a log parked there in front of the store this is nine hundred thirty six when they were in the process of paving route fifteen this is the next house up from the brick story where miller's live when it was the post office  now or a little further up route fifteen looking back toward the park and this is standing about in front of green mountain foams business looking across the route fifteen are probably some of you remember when bill met careful there his mother carey kenny this is the next house up the road from there for many years was  dr townes office and for many years before that this had been the home jay monahan and and in the end of the building had been the post office and there's another door in the center behind the bush here  d monaghan live there he was also the town clerk for many years so they had an entrance for the post office and another entrance for the town parks office he was eleven years he was the postmaster in twenty two years he was the town clerk this i always like this picture this was apparently taken the day after cabbage night and the buggy on the fire escape and all of the decorations around the door originally was built we think in the about eight hundred fifty two conflicting stories but several places it seems to be called the bell academy and it was kind of like the school and jerk off center was it started out as a private academy at least by eight hundred ninety three when the one thousand nine hundred two somewhere in there when the idea of school district was formed as the one room school districts were consolidating they took this building over and used it for their school up until about nine hundred seventy two and up until  now or a little further up the road looking at the until after a fire station and the previous underhill jericho fire station along with the house where marion now we're kind of about across the road from there this is the building that had been our the flower shop bakery and cafe last run by before the post office as was the home of the custer house another hotel in the area that had been built about eighteen eighty seven  a couple of more different views of  get a beginning to get a feel for how different the place would have looked if we hadn't had any fires now or at the intersection of route fifteen and poker hill road the brick house on what's been known forever as the home for homestead this was built by jonas humphrey about eighteen o two and his son daniel humphrey lived there is while his grandson amos home free all of the family for generations had been leather workers had a tannery and so on and also shoemakers so they hand the leather and made the shoes and by the one nine hundred twenty s amos humphries daughter eunice hackett was living in the house and was running again what today you think of as a bed and breakfast a t v room and kept safe had overnight guests they there don't know anything about this house other than it's no longer there fifty looking up through fifteen and i would say by the looks of the road this is probably a very shortly after it was paved in one thousand thirty six so right in here and going up across there would be the intersection of poker hill road that's the barn humphrey homestead that the brick house you just saw was would be right there just barely out of the picture and that's what it looks like today of this house that you can just barely see the corner over the left edge of the picture because there's the same house the barn you just saw on the earlier picture except here the railroad is going across and the road is going straight and goes up to where poker hill road is today before it turned in and want to round so that you actually had a railroad crossing here then the railroad curb back around the road is curving the other direction and so you within a very short distance you had two crossings there now we're starting up poker hill road  or on route fifteen a little further up beyond underhill flats the house here until fairly recently a family by the name of face live there but still a little bit further up fifteen just out of the picture on the right is where my god that lives today and that's what it looks like this barn here is not the one that was in the new picture there were actually two barns there and this one at some point a few years back was moved there is no longer there now or up through fifteen almost of the westford town line what i always grew up knowing is the duffy farm i'm not sure if it's still known as that today too much but this is what it looked like probably in the eight hundred ninety s the man standing on the left is george irish my great grandfather now we're back down at the park in underhill flats looking out park street the brick store on the left and what had been the towers and oak store now apartments in the distance this was taken august eighth  store is more of a grocery store and a little different shot of the same area this is what probably most of you know today is the clutter burn at the united church they took it over from george gifford in one thousand nine hundred eight it had been giffords funeral home jerko and eight hundred ninety eight the minerva lodge number twenty one and one thousand eight they bought property here and my suspicion is that may have been the time when they moved that small building that had been the church chapel that's a picture when it was  and that's a picture of when it was harold brown's funeral home the thing that's curious this fire escape today you know in this picture you see it comes down and around the corner in the front of the building today it's still in place except it goes in the opposite direction and that can't be too long ago that was changed but i have no idea what the story is behind how that came to pass is in the in the picture of when it was giffords which is nine hundred sixty nine it was going this way so it's changed some time after one thousand nine hundred sixty nine now we're back over looking at what had been the towers and oaks store now apartments to the right hand side of the united church and the last of its being in operation it is a store it was run by frank simpson he had been in partnership with grace foster is known as foster and simpson and before that grace foster had run it with  charlie mason mason and foster before that one time it was old see fowler store you're looking down down park street again now we're just looking down park street and you can see the sign right there the weather for the railroad crossing where they want to cross park street and this is the building on the corner of park street on the the right hand side which had been at one time the mansfield theater the building was about nine hundred twenty four a man named jed santa more had come from stoled work in at riverside and the woman that lived in the house at the time was a widow and julia farrel ended up they ended up getting married and so judge santa moore had the idea he was going to build this building and have a dance hall well this was in the middle of one nine hundred twenty s middle of prohibition and dance halls just didn't go over too well and so it wasn't an operation very long before it was converted to a movie theater which did a much better business and i was running up until nineteen thirty seven as a movie theater  and this is what's now the united church of under hell's parsonage this is when we in the know how live there now and has standing in the same spot looking the other direction what's now jacob store here in apartments in this building church said notably elsie fowler but i think i went through a few other hands and right beside the railroad tracks so many of their goods were coming in on the railroad they could be stored there and the labor needed this building here was a also as far as we can tell built by homer thompson and eventually e j gallopin a son david took it over and built this building in front of that so the building in behind was used as the tin shop in the front was more of a hardware store and apartments on the other end also sold gasoline a different view of the same spot and this is the the house on the  looking back down park street again jacob you're at the edge of the picture and apartments on the other side this was originally built by old bridge nearly as a jewelry store and the building right beside it was frankly  same spot a little earlier so the mill was actually right in this area but this picture was taken before the mill was built this is what again was also a feller's warehouse and as time went on and that was no longer needed that was moved up the road and is now a part of the house that's on the right hand side of the central station up on route fifty and today the building on the left was run by a man named show was a harness shop and later well gaines had a blacksmith shop and there again those looking back at jacobs that's jacobs with the warehouse in the front end of the mill across the street the railroad station station looking in the opposite direction another across photo this is taken june sixteenth one thousand thirty eight the last run of the b l and the woman on the left in the picture is his mother only across one of two people that had ridden on the first train when it came through an eight hundred seventy seven and rode on the last one in nine hundred thirty eight  this is out at the end of ga our place the building that jim character and his family are currently building on the site of the jr hall unfortunately last year ago november they were in the process of moving it and putting it on a new foundation and rehabilitating it unfortunately it caught fire and burned that's what it originally looked like the jr had been formed the grand army of the republic the civil war veterans group had been formed bostwick post number sixty nine and eight hundred eighty three and they'd met in the schoolhouse for a while but they really wanted their own hall and so in may of eight hundred eighty nine they finally acquired a small piece of land here and when i say small it was something like forty by sixty feet and that was in may by june they had laid the foundation and started late framing the building in and they had it completed and held the dedication september eleventh eight hundred eighty nine between may and september they completed the building and originally the downstairs in the front assembly hall and so the templars had their meeting in the thompson's hall but they ladies of the jr provided the lunches for him and raised money to help pay for the cost of building the jr hall and the up stairs was their meeting room and after it wasn't original to the building but a few years later they built a stage in the front of the building and that all by the nineteen teens probably the civil war veterans were getting to be kind of few and far between and the  what they were called but eventually they got to where they couldn't handle it anymore and the building was sold to the school district the id school district who ran it for a while but it got to be more than they could handle as well and  jr how would have been just to the right out of the picture that is characters house and this is just the field out there behind their house and this is the same field when it was a potato field for those of you might know and that's g this is the cemetery over on park street morial day nineteen  now we're back down by jollies at the intersection of river road looking up past the library the same spot in one thousand mid one nine hundred thirty s probably from the look of a carer's the brown monument we talked about earlier this belly off in the distance here that's about as good a picture of it as there is that was the crane rebuilding that was what would now be in front of the id school and right next door to us here this is  standing on the longest kind of out in front of the library looking crossed the street and that's george white again with the road scraper on this was a dirt road tripping the road that area this is the little building that was behind the creamery and just see a little bit of the tail end of the crane rebuilding there another view the same spot and this is right in front of the schools there's this little house which you might think is kind of an odd place to put a house but the reason being that was the lot where that creamery building had been which was a separate parcel of land and so it was available for a house what started out there was the cheese factory again run by quick human day the same people that had run the saw mill the same people that run the grocery store et and for about twenty years it was eight hundred seventy s to eight hundred ninety s they made cheese and then for whatever reason kind of the industry changed and it went from making cheese to making butter  this is in the edge of the picture here the corner browns your were middle school looking up at mount mansfield as is this i'm the trees are gone on the bank here the farm at the top of the bank was robert jackson and he and his son who lived in the brick house across the road still lehr both raise livestock and kind of registered livestock and so on were pretty prominent in that area for years now up in the the back side of the cemetery just looking back toward jer that's so that robert jackson's farm would have been out in here or maybe just out of the picture this is his sons  nearby beside the cemetery looking up river road this doesn't look like tool the picture but this is the barn where dave sullivan currently lives had been vincent maclean's his father in law before him and this is the barn what's now paul chamberlain and the barn that was formerly there and now are coming into under hillside or you can in the distance see the stop sign at the corner by the store this i can't match up anything but i believe this is the same spot but if it is it certainly has changed remarkably if it isn't i don't know where it is but i believe that's the same spot this is almost to the stop sign at the corner by the store says a little bit of the store building in the background and this is when the mansfield in was there on the corner  this was operated by the henry family for the years for years different view of the same spot different view of the same hotel this back when it was the priority hotel and a little earlier time with the previous pictures i was advertising gasoline in this one's advertising feed so in from out of mobiles back to horse and buggy  days the hotel had been woodworth mountain house at one time in the story been run by hill and woodworth so i'm guessing that was all part of the same family and then also the store was run this is across the road from it house today but formerly had been clipped terrell's store and st thomas church in the background a little different picture of the church that had originally been built an eight hundred fifty five that burned in december eight hundred ninety and the current church building was built this is the what it started out is the green mountain academy i found somewhere that it started in one thousand nine hundred fifty they say they have on the front of the building eight hundred fifty three but somewhere in that period again one of these hill town hall and for many years after that was the home of royal lorraine kennedy now we're looking starting it from the store in underhill center looking up pleasant valley road and the house on the right the brick house had been the office of d and this is the underhill town hall which they moved here from the green mountain academy building in one nine hundred fifty one formerly had been the union church the methodists and the free will baptist said held services there jointly for meeting fifty but by the late one nine hundred forty s the congregation was essentially nonexistent and the town was able to build by the building and renovated for the town hall and now we're just a little bit further up pleasant valley road looking at the former number five school house district five school that originally had been built as a one story building and the second story was added about  different view of the same area and there it is with the second story  foot rope tow the underhill winter sports club held events there and then the underhill jerko ski club the u v s mouthing club use the facility it closed down during world war two and then from one nine hundred forty six it was taken over by john and builder row and was run by especially bill and emmy dear bro for many years finally closed about nine hundred eighty one they this is the up on the upper end of stevensville road the home of john and carol dirty and i'm for many years from the one nine hundred fifty s it was the home of roland and mary ellis and they were both dealers in a femara and also there was barnes out in the back where they ran a business making models train kits and to the word d j name  from the nineteen thirties up until one nine hundred forty seven it had been the home of the shannons and then for a while after that sherman comstock both of who business that they and i guess also summer visitors as well as people who came to the mountain was originally built by luther stevens about eight hundred forty three and he'll live there until the eight well and we have come to the end i did bring a few odds and artifacts that relate to some of the things i talked about that are on the table over here so it is as we get the lights on here if anybody would like to take a look at them feel free