Look Around Winooski, Vermont
Author | : Chittenden County Historical Society (Vt.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Winooski (Vt.) |
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Author | : Chittenden County Historical Society (Vt.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Winooski (Vt.) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : David J. Blow |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Winooski (Vt.) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Al Blondin |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2015-11-09 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 143965459X |
Named by the Abenaki Indians, Winooski, which means "land of the wild onion," has enjoyed a long history. Ira and Ethan Allen and their uncle Remember Baker first settled in the area in 1772. Since that settlement, Winooski has hosted various mills and factories, several churches, many stores, and an active community. The Vermont Legislature approved a change of charter in 1921, and the citizens of Winooski voted in favor of incorporating the City of Winooski at their annual meeting in March 1922. The city's mills provided economic support until 1954, when the American Woolen Mill closed. Community Development Block Grants, Urban Development Action Grants, and other investments helped to revitalize Winooski throughout the 1980s, creating new job opportunities and updating the city's buildings and infrastructure. Now, as a designated Refugee Resettlement community, Winooski welcomes refugees from around the world, accommodating various languages and cultural needs. From the blockhouse constructed by the first settlers to the Winooski Block, the vibrant river city remains home to residents who have helped shape the history of Vermont.
Author | : Howard Coffin |
Publisher | : The Countryman Press |
Total Pages | : 1092 |
Release | : 2013-05-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 158157777X |
With the help of this book, Civil War sites can be located as in no other state, taking the reader through the beautiful Vermont landscape of hill farms and small towns that looks more like the Civil War era than that of any other state. Years after the Civil War, Oliver Wendell Holmes spoke for his fellow Civil War veterans when he said, "In our youth, our hearts were touched by fire." Today, throughout Vermont, it is possible to identify hundreds and hundreds of Civil War-related sites. Throughout Vermont are soldier homes, halls where war meetings encouraged enlistments, churches where soldier funerals were held and abolitionists spoke, monuments to those who served, hospital sites, and homes where women gathered to make items for the soldiers. The Vermont State House is a virtual Civil War museum. A building survives in Woodstock where the war was administered. Cemeteries hold the gravestones of many of the 34,000 who fought. A field even exists where in 1803 a Quaker preacher heard a voice from above fortell a bloody war over slavery. With the help of this book, Civil War sites can be located as in no other state, taking the reader through the beautiful Vermont landscape of hill farms and small towns that looks more like the Civil War era than that of any other state.
Author | : Charles Fish |
Publisher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9781584655503 |
A lyrical and insightful journey of discovery down Vermont's Winooski River
Author | : Ralph Nading Hill |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1949 |
Genre | : Winooski River |
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Author | : Paul M. Searls |
Publisher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781584655602 |
Two Vermonts establishes a little-known fact about Vermont: that the state's fascination with tourism as a savior for a suffering economy is more than a century old, and that this interest in tourism has always been dogged by controversy. Through this lens, the book is poised to take its place as the standard work on Vermont in the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era. Searls examines the origins of Vermont's contemporary identity and some reasons why that identity ("Who is a Vermonter?") is to this day so hotly contested. Searls divides nineteenth-century Vermonters into conceptually "uphill," or rural/parochial, and "downhill," or urban/cosmopolitan, elements. These two groups, he says, negotiated modernity in distinct and contrary ways. The dissonance between their opposing tactical approaches to progress and change belied the pastoral ideal that contemporary urban Americans had come to associate with the romantic notion of "Vermont." Downhill Vermonters, espousing a vision of a mutually reinforcing relationship between tradition and progress, unilaterally endeavored to foster the pastoral ideal as a means of stimulating economic development. The hostile uphill resistance to this strategy engendered intense social conflict over issues including education, religion, and prohibition in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The story of Vermont's vigorous nineteenth-century quest for a unified identity bears witness to the stirring and convoluted forging of today's "Vermont." Searls's engaging exploration of this period of Vermont's history advances our understanding of the political, economic, and cultural transformation of all of rural America as industrial capitalism and modernity revolutionized the United States between 1865 and 1910. By the late Progressive Era, Vermont's reputation was rooted in the national yearning to keep society civil, personal, and meaningful in a world growing more informal, bureaucratic, and difficult to navigate. The fundamental ideological differences among Vermont communities are indicative of how elusive and frustrating efforts to balance progress and tradition were in the context of effectively negotiating capitalist transformation in contemporary America.
Author | : Vincent Feeney |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Winooski (Vt.) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Library of Congress. Copyright Office |
Publisher | : Copyright Office, Library of Congress |
Total Pages | : 1582 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Copyright |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Steve Zipay |
Publisher | : Triumph Books |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2009-09-01 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1617490288 |
Written for every sports fan who follows the New York Giants, this account goes behind the scenes to peek into the private world of the players, coaches, and decision makers—all while eavesdropping on their personal conversations. From the locker room to the sidelines and inside the huddle, the book includes comments that allow readers to relive the highlights and the celebrations.