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History Corner: Edna Beard: First Woman in Both the House and...

Carla Occaso - March 21, 2023

History Corner: Remembering Mrs. Appleyard

Carla Occaso - February 21, 2023

History Corner: State Street Primps for Elections in 1808

Carla Occaso - January 24, 2023

History Corner: The December Death of a Vermont ‘Factory Girl

Carla Occaso - December 20, 2022

History Corner: The First (Tragic) Thanksgiving in the Settlement

Carla Occaso - November 15, 2022

History Corner: A Salem “Witch’s” Ties to Plainfield

Carla Occaso - October 18, 2022

History Corner: The First Money Makers in the Settlement

Carla Occaso - September 20, 2022

History Corner: The Earliest Schools in the Settlement

Carla Occaso - August 16, 2022

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History Corner: When Barre was Wildersburgh

Carla Occaso - July 20, 2022

Montpelier’s First July 4th Celebration: 1807

Carla Occaso - June 22, 2022

History Corner: Montpelier’s First Library Banned Fiction

Carla Occaso - May 25, 2022

Group Revives Montpelier Historical Society

Carla Occaso - April 27, 2022

History Corner: How Early Montpelier Settlers Dressed

Carla Occaso - April 27, 2022

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History Corner: Rebecca Peabody Davis: A Woman in History

Carla Occaso - March 24, 2022

History Corner: Montpelier’s First Town Meeting

Carla Occaso - February 22, 2022

History Corner: Traveling by Rackets in the Great Snows

Carla Occaso - January 26, 2022

History Corner: A Fraught First Winter in Montpelier

Carla Occaso - December 15, 2021

History Corner: Flooding in Middlesex Before Building the Dam

History Corner: Day Before Yesterday