October Archives
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11837: Hiram Kimball, marble saw inventor, born |
21959: A meeting to discuss Bakerfield’s water supply |
31865: The Home For Destitute Children is founded in Burlington |
41902: Jessie LaFountain Bigwood, 1st woman lawyer |
51880: Drought ends, fish spotted with umbrellas |
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61966: Plane crash on Mt. Mansfield |
71819: Plow demonstration by a 137 year old man! |
81912: President William Howard Taft speaks in Rutland |
91835: There’s no governor! What do we do? |
101826: William S. Ladd born in Holland. Helps develop Portland, Oregon |
111957: Wreckage of L-20 Beaver finally found in Chittenden |
121970: The beginning of a delicious tradition...Apple Pie Festival |
131840: Albert Clarke born in Granville |
141834: Anna Hunr Marsh leaves half her estate to establish mental institution |
151815: The original steamer, Vermont, sinks |
161940: 200 men stand in line waiting for recruiting office to open |
171813: The other Alfred Hitchcock, born in Westminster |
181796: Hosea Ballou II born in Guilford. 1st president of Tufts University |
191944: Sgt. Paulus, rescuer on Camel's Hump, gets lost |
201931: Pittsford landmark, Otter Creek Inn, burns |
211874: The president of UVM praises Vermont as "the mother of men" |
221782: Vermont established its first law relating to schools |
231911: T.N. Vail gets the first paved road in Vermont |
241945: Peculiar circumstances foster tragedy on Navy Day |
251835: Sculptor Truman Howe Bartlett born in Dorset |
261810: Noted lawyer and poet Joseph A. Wing born in East Montpelier |
271956: Patty Sheehan, LPGA champion, born in Middlebury |
281806: Thomas Jefferson Cree born, would become well known in Wheelock |
291771: Green Mountain Boys destroy Scottish settlement in Rupert |
30?: Doris "Morning Dove" Minckler born, Abenaki healer |
311932: Katherine Paterson, noted children’s writer, born in China |
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