All posts tagged "Rutland Vt."
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9.8K4Business 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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9.1K3Politics 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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8.6K5Politics 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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13.1K23ConnecticutThe 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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12.7K4Business and LaborJohn Deere, Vermont Blacksmith, Breaks the Plains
When John Deere was eight years old, his father left their home in Middlebury, Vt., and boarded a ship for England. He had received...
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10.0K18New HampshireN.H. Gov. Benning Wentworth Grabs the King’s Masts, Along With Vermont
If it weren’t for Benning Wentworth, Vermont probably wouldn’t exist. Wentworth was the Colony of New Hampshire’s first governor, and on Jan....
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