All posts tagged "Rutland Vt."
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2.3KScience and NaturePolio Makes Its U.S. Debut in Vermont’s Otter Creek Valley in 1894
In June of 1894, a strange nervous disease attacked several children in Vermont’s Otter Creek Valley. It started as a summer cold,...
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36.9K1Crime and ScandalThe Madness — or Murderousness? — of Vermont’s Ezra Smith
To this day nobody really knows what happened in August of 1877 to Deacon Ezra Smith of Vergennes, Vt. Was he engulfed...
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10.7K4Business and LaborIn 1915, Independence Day Was Americanization Day
“What is Americanization?” Future Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis posed the question to a packed audience at Faneuil Hall in Boston marking...
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10.6K3Politics and MilitaryWheelock Veazey Tries To Stay Awake at the Battle of Gettysburg
Lt. Col. Wheelock Veazey and his 16th Vermont Regiment faced many dangers during the Battle of Gettysburg, not the least of which...
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10.6K5Politics and MilitaryIda May Fuller Gets the First Social Security Check
Ida May Fuller of Ludlow, Vt., received the first Social Security check on Jan. 31, 1940. The check was numbered 00-00-0001, the...
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14.0K23ConnecticutThe Weston Meteorite of 1807 Brings Scientific Research to America
In 1807 a fireball streaked across the New England sky, broke into pieces and scattered over Weston, Conn. The young Yale professor...
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