The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-01-06
HISTORY MAY Be
BE READ ALONG
VERMONT ROADS.
Letters a Foot High on Pages of
Open Books
MANY FACTS RECALLED
Tire Manufacturing Company Carries
Out Novel and Interesting
Advertising Plan


so that he who runs NAV read Is the
most recent method adopted for re.
calling to the memory OF Vermont
much of the forgotten lore in which
the State is rich
Motoring along some peaceful coun,
try HIGHWAY far removed TODAY from
tn espots where history is believed to
be in the making one comes upon a.
great open book labelled History of
the United States" and learns from
tts Pages that near that quiet seclnd
ed spot occurred some event that
back IN the day of the ed skins or
in Revolutionary times made a de-
cided dent in the course Of events,
When these pages of historyr fret
began to appear on the laud~cape AZ.
tomobilists EXPRESSED q friendly inter
est in them, hut as more and moro
places OF historical Significance were
marked there came from the mnto :
lists chorus OF approval. Mcfrss.
|rortes that were formerly rather dull
affairs have suddenly become fifpd
with a new interest--ihe s'lentpifor-
ests have become alive apatn with In
dams, sturdy colonists re-people the
ware thei small but Hateful warfare
behind stone fences and on grassy
hilitops
Tho credit for this novel method OF
reviving interest in the events If -bv-
gone days belongs to tho United
States Tire COMPANY. White ore
page of the big open. book sets forth
interesting historical data the otber
page does not hes tate to assert the
Of reiterated truth, that United
States tires are good tires"
The erection Of fheso big hulletin
boards-they a-e fifty feet long and
eiehteen feet tall-is not confined to
Vermont
Already New Fne5andfs towns and
VILLAGES, redolant With tales OF Pr.
gr ms aud .patriosssares dotted with
the big books In a score of State
in the Middle uSe~t-sr d-'ssr't+'tt~
boards are in p'ace. and on the Paci.
fic Coast tourists learn the history o.
California O~neon and Washington
from the boards.
( The boards are not THINGS of sea
son only. Il is the Intention 70 err y
. nage" eacy year and place new
history upon II.
. Each board fits into the Landscape
/ and nv the fact that t PERFORMS 2
genuine service obviates the criticism
directed against many bill boards
Instead Of onpoaine the erection OF
the big books. mauv communities are
stirred by local pride to urge thai
IL. !. a.. -.
and many land owners who have hith
to shown hostility when asked 70
0a~mission to have sign board
placed on their prouertv consent eIaH
~ to have their little town ADVERTISED
BY some of the historical Bulletins.
The history Of Vermont is told OF
these bulletin boards from the TIM
Able de Vorannna narnn1 u Vow ~ .
10 green mountain which gave /
the name Green MnNnt-tn es~a-''
The Indian history OF Vermont Ii
ilcds osedon MANY bulletin board
To- 1t was the home OF the Irouuo's
and many tribes came from Canad'
. Because the mountains OF Vernon
obounded In moose deer. bear. heav
er, raccoon, and other animals and II
was al-o the homo oe the wild turkey
and migratory wild fowl
Between 1900 and 1900. the Iroquoi.
transversed the narrow strip on III,
oast side Of axe Irouuois or oauet
1uois enlarging their borders by con
quest AGAINST the A'eororin
The Indians of Vermont ,as reveal
ed by these roadside bulletin boards
tell of the ST Francis lpdirps whos,
home originally was In northern Yer
mont, the MoheganS in Arlington the
! Coosucks on the Connecticut River
and in and about Newbu while h
the south the Moheakunnuks (Stock
bridge Tndians) claimed the othel
parts of the State.
incidentally the pioneer settlers o.
4 Vermont ia sed fund in 1867 witt
which to pay indians for their LAM
whenever proofs should be forthcom
1 'ng-Y Later the Cogawaga tribe o
IroQuois. Indians nre -ented claim
for more than 100000 acres of Iant
which they valued at $50 ono.
4 The boards state that Franc,
claimed Vermont bv right of discov
erv by Cartier in 1885, and also tina
Indians under Intendent Samuel d.
Champlain started south from thei
Canadian reservations to Lake Iro
quois which was named for Cham
plain, who. Ike the famous Able d,
Voranont, when he saw the mountain
exclaimed Behold the Green Noun
tafns."
Vermont, like the other New Fnp
land states Suffered from Indian I'D
4 which were finally stopped by Majo
Rogers who on Oct s.. 1881 burned
the big Indian settlement in Vernon
and DESTROYED their power and tool
away their courage"
The conflict between New Hamr
shire and Massachusetts over tn
Vermont boundary line is also to'
on these bulletin boards in addition
to the work of such celebrated We
monters as Ethan Allen. Thoma
Chittenden. Ira Allen, Seth Warne
and Dir. Jonas Fax. who Tough
against the English system of Roya
landholders.
A number of bulletin boards are re
quired to tell Of the battles during tb