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Apothecary Shop

The Apothecary Shop is a building at the Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vermont, that exhibits objects salvaged from New England pharmacies that were closing in the early decades of the 20th century. The main room contains dried herbs, spices, drugs, and labeled glass apothecary bottles from the nineteenth century, as well as early patent medicines, medical equipment, cosmetics, and a collection of barbers' razors. The compounding room, with its brick hearth, copper distilleries, and percolators, replicates an illustration found in Edward Parrish's 1871 Treatise on Pharmacy. History In 1959 the Shelburne Museum constructed the Apothecary Shop as an addition to the General Store. Inside, the display shelves, pill press, and other professional tools create the appearance of an operating druggist's shop between 1870 and 1900. The glass vessels displayed in the front windows are symbols of the apothecary trade: the red fluid represents arterial blood while the blue represents venous blood. Prior to the Civil War, druggists gathered and dried herbs, primed them for medicinal use through the process of grinding or distillation, then combined the prepared herbs with sugar, lard, alcohol and other substances to create tablets, ointments, and elixirs. While these practices continued into the late nineteenth century, druggists gradually responded to an ever-greater demand for patent medicines as customers began to prefer brightly labeled cure-alls to herbal remedies. Passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906 marked the beginning of the modern drugstore and the end of the apothecary shop. References External links Shelburne Museum website
Arlington Green Covered Bridge

The Arlington Green Covered Bridge is a covered bridge located off Vermont Route 313 in Arlington, Vermont. The Town lattice truss bridge carries Covered Bridge Road across Batten Kill. It was built in 1852 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. It is one of Vermont's oldest surviving bridges. Description and history The Arlington Green Covered Bridge is located at the village of West Arlington, crossing Batten Kill just south of Route 313. It is a single span structure, with a length of 80 feet (24 m), a total width of 17.5 feet (5.3 m), and a roadway width of 14 feet (4.3 m) (one lane). It rests on mortared stone abutments, of which the northern one has since been faced in concrete. Guying cables are fastened near each of its corners. The sides are finished in vertical board siding, and the roof is metal. There are five small square openings in each of the sides. The bridge was built in 1852, and is one of the state's oldest surviving covered bridges. It is also unusual in that it has not had any 20th-century strengthening elements added, a common feature to many of the state's older bridges. On August 28, 2011, the Arlington Green Covered Bridge was damaged by flooding caused by Hurricane Irene; it was fixed in the following months and reopened to traffic. See also List of Vermont covered bridges National Register of Historic Places listings in Bennington County, Vermont List of bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Vermont References External links Arlington Green Covered Bridge at tug44.org
South Burlington High School

South Burlington High School, souvent abrégée SBHS, est une école secondaire publique américaine, située à South Burlington dans le Vermont. L'équipe sportive nommée « les Rebelles » (en anglais, « Rebels ») représentent le lycée, et les couleurs officielles sont le bleu et le gris. En 2004 ont été recensés 985 élèves fréquentant l'établissement. Historique Direction Enseignement Vie étudiante Activités sportives L'équipe sportive d'athlétisme de South Burlington High School est connue sous le nom des « Rebelles » (en anglais, « Rebels »), basée principalement à Burlington, la plus grande ville de l'État du Vermont. En raison de la connotation négative des soldats des États confédérés du Nord des États-Unis, la mascotte, qui représentée l'équipe et qui apparaissait à chaque début de match entre 1980 et 1995, a été enlevée mais l'école continue de porter ce surnom. L'établissement dispose d'un stade ultramoderne et d'une piste de course. L'équipe de hockey sur glace joue à l'extérieur du campus de Dorset Park en allant fréquenter le C. Douglas Cairns Arena de la ville de South Burlington, où d'autres lycées et collèges y jouent leurs matchs à domicile. Les principaux rivaux sportifs de South Burlington High School sont Essex Junction High School de la Division 1 de la Metropolitan Collegiate Athletic Conference, Champlain Valley Union High School, Burlington High School, Mount Mansfield Union High School, Bellows Free Academy de Saint Albans et Rice Memorial High School, l'école privée catholique. Le coach de baseball Jack Leggett et les lanceurs Mike Rochford, Owen Ozanich (Franco-Américain) et Casey Harman sont des élèves notables des « Rebels ». L'école a remporté de nombreux championnats du Vermont dans presque tous les sports. Activités culturelles Notes et références Portail de l’éducation Portail du Vermont
Bartonsville Covered Bridge

The Bartonsville Covered Bridge is a wooden covered bridge in the village of Bartonsville, in Rockingham, Vermont, United States. The bridge is a lattice truss style with a 151-foot span, carrying Lower Bartonsville Road over the Williams River. It was built in 2012, replacing a similar bridge built in 1870 by Sanford Granger. The 1870 bridge, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was destroyed in 2011 in flooding caused by Hurricane Irene. History The bridge was built after the great flood of 1869 that changed the course of the river, replacing another covered bridge about 1/4 mile up the road where the river used to flow. The bridge is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was located on Lower Bartonsville Road, a paved road a short distance north from Vermont Route 103. Nearby, to the east, is the Worrall Covered Bridge, also built by Granger. In the 1960s, a Town of Rockingham gravel truck fell through the bridge cutting off cars from Lower Bartonsville Village from the direct link to Vermont Route 103 until the floor was replaced. In the early 1980s extensive renovations were conducted on the bridge, including replacing the abutment on the north side of the bridge, reinforcing the original stone abutments on the south side of the bridge, and replacing the roof and the weathered siding. Destruction by Hurricane Irene and replacement On August 28, 2011, the bridge was destroyed by flash flooding caused by excessive rainfall from Hurricane Irene's landfall on the U.S. East Coast. An effort to rebuild the structure was supported by town officials, who voted to use the bridge's insurance money to build another covered bridge. The new bridge was opened on January 26, 2013. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Windham County, Vermont List of bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Vermont List of Vermont covered bridges Old Blenheim Bridge, a covered bridge in upstate New York, also destroyed by Tropical Storm Irene; rebuilt in 2017 References
Battery Park (Burlington, Vermont)

Battery Park is a public park overlooking Lake Champlain at the western end of downtown Burlington, Vermont. The park includes a bandshell, a playground, and various monuments, including a bronze statue of Civil War veteran General William W. Wells, and a red oak sculpture of Chief Gray Lock, a veteran of Gray Lock's War. Locally, it is popular for its wide, sweeping views of Lake Champlain. History The park was named for the artillery stationed there by American forces during the War of 1812. On August 13, 1813, American gunners, aided by the USS President, successfully defended their position against an attack by a British squadron led by Lt Colonel John Murray. The park land was deeded to the City of Burlington in 1870, and the Battery Park Extension was added to the southern end in 1972. Trivia Because of its unobstructed view high above Burlingon's harbor, Battery Park is a very popular spot for observers of the Independence Day fireworks launched from a barge in the bay. According to noted author Rudyard Kipling (The Jungle Book), Battery Park has one of the two finest sunset views in the world, with the other location being Kenya's Ngong Hills. References Links Vermont Department of Parks and Recreation President Lyndon B. Johnson's Remarks at Battery Park Battle at Burlington (1813)
Beach Lodge and Gallery

The Beach Gallery (44.373832°N 73.233013°W﻿ / 44.373832; -73.233013) and Beach Lodge (44.374149°N 73.232782°W﻿ / 44.374149; -73.232782) are two exhibit buildings at the Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vermont, United States. They are both made from logs and are designed to resemble an Adirondack hunting camp. The Beach Lodge exhibits a large selection of hunting trophies (taxidermy), while the Beach Gallery exhibits art depicting the North American wilderness; this includes work by Carl Rungius (a hunting companion of Theodore Roosevelt), Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait, and Sydney Laurence. History In 1960, the Shelburne Museum commissioned the construction of the Beach Lodge and the Beach Gallery, named for William and Marie Beach, who were friends and hunting companions of Electra Havemeyer Webb, as well as Shelburne Museum patrons. Using timber forested at the Webb family's Adirondack "great camp", Nehasane, the museum designed the Lodge and the Gallery to resemble an Adirondack hunting camp. To create an environment distinctly different from the rest of the grounds, the museum excavated a shallow basin in which to build the two structures, surrounded the basin with Vermont sandstone, and planted spruce, hemlock, and cedar trees so that the area would resemble an Adirondack forest. In 2007 the museum restored both the Beach Lodge and Gallery. The Lodge, whose original timber structure and interior remained in good condition, received basic renovations, while the Gallery, which had drastically deteriorated over the years, had to be razed. The museum constructed a new cabin using logs from the timber left standing after a forest fire in Montana on the Gallery's original floor plan. See also Trophy hunting References External links
Beaver Meadow Union Chapel

The Beaver Meadow Union Chapel, now also known as the West Norwich Union Church, is a historic church on the north side of Beaver Meadow Road in Norwich, Vermont. Built in 1915, it is a well-preserved example of vernacular ecclesiastical architecture of the period. It is of national significance as the origin point of the Home Prayers program, essentially a mail-order ministry inspired by the catalogs of Sears, Roebuck. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. Description and history The Beaver Meadow Union Chapel stands on the north side of Beaver Meadow Road, just west of the crossroads village of West Norwich. It is a simple single-story wood-frame structure, with a steeply pitched gable roof, clapboard siding, and stone foundation. A square tower rises from the roof near the front, with an open belfry capped by a pyramidal roof. The main facade has an unadorned entrance at the center, with simply framed sash windows on either side, and above in the belfry. A kitchen ell extends to the left of the main building. The interior retains many of its original finishes and furnishings. The church was built in 1915 at the instigation of Margaret Kerr. She was a New York City schoolteacher who agitated for its construction after a drunken brawl occurred in front of her home. The site on which it was built originally had a Methodist church on it; it had been moved to Sharon. The church was built by its future congregants, and was served by ministers operating from nearby Hanover, New Hampshire, mainly during the warmer months. One of them, Rev. Allen W. Clark, seized upon the idea of mailing written elements of a service (including lessons and sermon) to congregants in periods when the church was not in service. This idea grew into the Home Prayers program, which had more than 23,000 subscribers from 850 churches when Clark retired in 1977. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Windsor County, Vermont References
Prospect Hill Cemetery (Brattleboro, Vermont)

Prospect Hill Cemetery is a cemetery in Brattleboro, Vermont. Founded in 1796, it was originally known as the Village Burying Ground, and then Old Village Burying Ground. Additional land was acquired over time, up to 1869. The cemetery includes a number of notable figures from the history of the town. Included in the graves at the site are those of 19 Union Army soldiers who died at the military hospital in the town during the American Civil War. Notable burials James Elliot (1775–1839), member of the United States House of Representatives James Fisk (1835–1872), financier and businessman Broughton Harris (1822–1899), public official and businessman Kittredge Haskins (1836–1916), member of the United States House of Representatives Frederick Holbrook (1813–1909), governor of Vermont George W. Hooker (1838–1902), American Civil War recipient of the Medal of Honor Jonathan Hunt (1787–1832), member of the United States House of Representatives William Morris Hunt (1824–1879), Boston-based painter James Manning Tyler (1835–1926), member of the United States House of Representatives Royall Tyler (1757–1826), public official and author References External links Prospect Hill Cemetery at Find a Grave
Fairfax, Vermont

Fairfax is a town in Franklin County, Vermont, United States, with a population of 5,014 at the 2020 census. Geography The New England town of Fairfax is in southern Franklin County and is bordered by Chittenden County to the south. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 40.4 square miles (104.7 km2), of which 39.8 square miles (103.2 km2) is land and 0.58 square miles (1.5 km2), or 1.44%, is water. The Lamoille River, a tributary of Lake Champlain, flows from east to west across the southern part of the town, passing through the communities of Fairfax and Fairfax Falls. Demographics As of the census of 2010, there were 4,285 people, 1,591 households, and 1,226 families residing in the town. The population density was 105.8 people per square mile (40.8/km2). There were 1,683 housing units at an average density of 41.6 per square mile (16.0/km2). The racial makeup of the town was 97.8% White and 1.3% Hispanic or Latino. There were 39.8% of households under the age of 18 living with them, 64.2% were married couples living together, 8.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 22.9% were non-families and 16.0% of all households were made up of individuals, and 16.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.69 and the average family size was 3.00. The median income for a household in the town was $70,348, and the median income for a family was $77,159. The per capita income for the town was $18,632. About 2.7% of families and 4.8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 6.7% of those under age 18 and 4.1% of those age 65 or over. Education The town is in the Franklin West Supervisory Union. Bellows Free Academy – Fairfax is a public K–12 school in Fairfax. The school has an average graduating class of 80 from students drawn from Fairfax and the surrounding towns of Fletcher, Georgia, Fairfield, and Westford. As of 2010, the school's per-pupil tuition is $9,870 paid by the towns (sometimes from outside the school district) who send the students to the school. Hiram Bellows bought 4 acres (1.6 ha) of land and left money for the construction of a free school in Fairfax, Vermont. 'Bellows Free Academy – Fairfax and Saint Albans' was built from the money earned in stocks willed to the town by Bellows. The stocks had been invested in the Chicago Rock Island Railway. When the stocks had earned $250,000, the school was constructed. The original school burned on January 14, 1941, and the current school is its replacement. The school's team name is The Bullets. It competes as a Division III school. School colors are maroon and white. Notable people Donly C. Hawley, mayor of Burlington, Vermont James M. Hotchkiss (1812–1877), member of the Vermont House of Representatives and Vermont Senate Israel Bush Richardson (1815–1862), United States Army officer during the Mexican–American War and American Civil War References External links Town of Fairfax official website Bellows Free Academy
Bellows Free Academy, St. Albans

Bellows Free Academy is a high school, grades 9-12, in St. Albans, Vermont, USA. BFA-St. Albans is the largest secondary school in Franklin County, Vermont. There were 987 students in attendance as of the 2014–2015 school year. The school has two different campuses. The main campus consists of two buildings located in downtown St. Albans: BFA South and BFA North. BFA South is the original building and was built in 1930. BFA North was formerly the St. Albans Hospital and was sold to the school for one dollar when the hospital fully consolidated with the Northwestern Medical Center (opened in 1978) in 1996. Collins-Perley Sports Complex is home to most athletics at the academy, and is located just off exit 19 of I-89, about a mile and a half from the main campus. BFA St Albans, along with BFA Fairfax in neighboring Fairfax, VT, was founded in memory of Hiram Bellows with money from Railroad stocks that he left in a public school fund for after his death. Academics There is no cost to attend BFA St. Albans, as it is a public school. The school used to be semi-private, answering to its board of trustees rather than a public school board for over 60 years. Teens living within St. Albans City or Town areas could attend for free, but families outside the city or town limits could choose to attend BFA St. Albans and if their town had a high school they would pay for their tuition, if their town did not have a high school their home town would cover tuition, as they can attend any school within the state. Media The Mercury is a monthly newspaper written, laid out, and published by the journalism students at the academy in association with The Saint Albans Messenger. Athletics The namesake of the school's boys' teams is the Bobwhites, after longtime coach and athletic director Bob White. The girls' teams are known as the Comets, after longtime coach Dario "Doc" Comi. The boys and girls hockey teams, the softball team, girls basketball team, and the boys soccer team have collected state titles over the years. The boys varsity hockey team has won 16 state championship titles.All of the BFA athletic teams participate in Division I for sports, except girls lacrosse, and cheerleading which compete in Division II. Notable alumni Brett Adams, 1983, Athletic Director, Stevenson University (formerly Villa Julie College) since 1994, the school's 1st athletic director and men's basketball coach.[2] Michael J. Colburn, Conductor of United States Marine Band "The President's Own" Dennis "Red" Gendron, former coach and teacher, General Manager at Grand Timber Lodge Matt Johnson, former professional basketball player John LeClair 1987, NHL All-Star hockey player and Olympian Sister School BFA-St. Albans' Sister school is located in Moss Point, Mississippi. BFA has, on more than one occasion, held fund raisers for the city, which was heavily damaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. References
Caledonia No. 9 Grange Hall

The Caledonia No. 9 Grange Hall is a historic building at 88 East Church Street in the East Hardwick village of Hardwick, Vermont. It was built in 1909 for what is now the oldest Grange chapter (founded 1872) in New England to operate under its original charter. The building is a well-preserved example of vernacular Queen Anne architecture, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017. Description and history The Caledonia No. 9 Grange Hall is located in the village of East Hardwick, on the east side of Church Street opposite its junction with Stevens Lane. It is a clapboarded wood-frame structure with a gable roof, presenting 1+1⁄2 stories to the street. It is set on a steep hillside above the Lamoille River, however, and has a full understory. The street-facing facade has a single-story hip-roofed porch across the front, supported by turned posts with jigsawn brackets and turned balustrades on either side of the entry stair. Scrolled brackets also adorn the building corners. A similar porch once sheltered the secondary entrance on the lower level; its surviving decorative elements have been stored. The East Hardwick Grange chapter was founded in 1873, just one year after the first Grange chapter in New England was established in St. Johnsbury. This chapter at first met in other village spaces, including a church and the village hall, before having this building constructed in 1909. The building committee overseeing the project included former Governor of Vermont Charles J. Bell. The building is distinctive in Vermont in part because relatively few Grange halls were built specifically for that purpose, and were built following guidelines published by the national organization. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Caledonia County, Vermont References
Ben Lane Print Shop

The Ben Lane Print Shop is a demonstration site at Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vermont, in the United States. History In 1955 the museum constructed the Ben Lane Printing Shop as a working exhibit. A variety of presses and other equipment demonstrate daily the printing process. The shop also hosts educational programs for children and adults, while manufacturing items for the museum. Today the building accommodates a typical, small-town printing shop from the first half of the 20th century. Although larger printing businesses of the period adopted the modern process of offset lithography, the new technology arrived slowly to rural areas. Consequently, a press such as the Ben Lane Printing Shop continued to use moveable-type letterpress production similar to that devised by Johannes Gutenberg in the mid-15th century. The Ben Lane Printing Shop houses the type of equipment that a proprietor and his successors would accumulate in adapting their press to a half-century's technological advancements. In the first decades of the 20th century, print shops continued to use old-fashioned presses for specific purposes. In the case of the Ben Lane Printing Shop, even an 1820s vintage hand press remained in occasional service. Likewise, the Cotrell newspaper press, manufactured in 1871, rolled on a regular basis, as did a treadle-operated Dorman job press of the same vintage for smaller work. Although printers still utilized racks of wood and metal type, a complicated and often cantankerous Linotype machine fulfilled many of the shop's composition requirements. The final addition of a high-speed Heidelberg press with automatic inking and paper feed operated quickly and efficiently and dramatically increased output. The name The museum named its printing shop in honor of Benjamin Battles Lane (1897–1987), whose father, Frank, founded the Lane Press of Burlington, Vermont, in 1904. Ben Lane served as president and general manager of Lane Press from 1928 to 1961. His support enabled the museum to install this exhibit and open it to the general public as a living tribute to a centuries-old craft. Printing Prints, which are created by using a press and metal plate system, made possible the production of multiple copies of the same image. In late 18th century America, the local silversmith with a talent for engraving on metal often worked with the town printer to produce printed pictures for the general public. Letterpresses and printing procedures are demonstrated in the museum's Print Shop. See also Printing press Bibliography Shelburne Museum. 1993. Shelburne Museum: A Guide to the Collections. Shelburne: Shelburne Museum, Inc. Shelburne Museum Print Shop [1]