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The Church of Our Saviour, also known as the Church of Our Saviour at Mission Farm, the Mission of the Church of Our Saviour, and the Josiah Wood Jr. Farm, is a historic Episcopal church and farm complex located at 316 Mission Farm Road, in Killington, Vermont. The church is a Gothic Revival stone building, built in 1894-95 of Vermont granite.
The district covers an area of 275 acres (111 ha) encompassing 95 buildings, sites, and structures that contribute to the historical significance of the area. The center of the district is an elliptical village green located at the junction of U.S. Route 4 and Vermont Route 106. Around the green and along the main road following the river are a ...
In 1922, there was a fire in the area and 47 men were trapped in the mine and died. This mine was shut down due to World War II. [3] Butte County – Cherokee was hydraulic-mined from 1860 to 1870. Cherokee was the first place to find diamonds in the United States in 1864. In Oroville a Chinese temple was established in 1863. The Chinese worked ...
According to Bellows Falls-based historian Lyman Simpson Hayes, writing in 1907’s History of the Town of Rockingham, the first settlement of the area that would become Saxtons River occurred in 1783, when Amos P. Cummings cut down the first trees of an “entirely unbroken wilderness of immense trees of primitive growth.” [7] As late as 1795, there existed only two houses in the village ...
In 1941, German playwright Carl Zuckmayer, a refugee from Nazi Germany whom Dorothy Thompson had helped to get into the US, rented Backwoods Farm, with its farmhouse from 1783 nowadays owned by Hannah Kahn [7] and a total 180 acres (0.73 km 2), from Joseph Ward (of Maynes & Ward hardware store on Main Street in Woodstock, Vermont) for 50 ...
According to the United States Census Bureau, Orwell has a total area of 49.7 square miles (128.6 km 2), of which 47.2 square miles (122.2 km 2) is land and 2.5 square miles (6.5 km 2), or 5.02%, is water. [4] Vermont Route 22A runs through the town, leading north to Vergennes and south to Fair Haven, where it continues into New York.
View from Devils Hill over Groton State Forest in western Peacham. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 47.7 square miles (123.5 km 2), of which 46.6 square miles (120.8 km 2) is land and 1.0 square mile (2.7 km 2), or 2.18%, is water.
At the 2000 census there were 1,067 people, 456 households, and 327 families in the town. The population density was 43.2 people per square mile (16.7/km 2).There were 716 housing units at an average density of 29.0 per square mile (11.2/km 2).