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Strafford's village center is defined by a triangular green, formed by the Y-shaped junction of the Justin Morrill Smith Highway (running north-south) and Brook Road (running roughly northwest). At the large northern end of the triangle stands the 1799 meetinghouse, a fine example of Federal period architecture externally, with late 19th ...
The Morrill Homestead is set on 3 acres (1.2 ha) of land on the east side of Justin Morrill Memorial Highway, just south of the village green and the heart of Strafford Village. The property includes, in addition to the main house, several barns and sheds as outbuildings, and is set off from the road by a flush-boarded fence with granite posts ...
The Morrill Homestead in Strafford, Vermont. The Justin Smith Morrill Homestead in Strafford is a National Historic Landmark. [30] Many colleges established under the Morrill Act created a 'Morrill Hall' in his honor. [31] Morrill was initiated into the Delta Upsilon fraternity as an honorary member in 1864. [32]
Vermont National Guard Library and Museum: Colchester: Chittenden: Military: History of the Vermont National Guard, both Army and Air Force, and the military heritage of the State of Vermont and its veterans [73] Vermont Scale Museum: Weston: Windsor: Commodity: Located in the Vermont Country Store, collection of scales and measures [24]
Carnegie Libraries: Their History and Impact on American Public Library Development. Chicago: American Library Association. ISBN 0-8389-0022-4. Jones, Theodore (1997). Carnegie Libraries Across America. New York: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0-471-14422-3. Miller, Durand R. (1943). Carnegie Grants for Library Buildings, 1890-1917. New York: Carnegie ...
Strafford is a town in Orange County, Vermont, United States. The population was 1,094 at the 2020 census . [ 3 ] The town of Strafford was created on August 12, 1761, by way of a royal charter which King George III of Great Britain issued to Governor Benning Wentworth of New Hampshire .
The following are approximate tallies of current listings by county. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [3]
One library, Lawrence Memorial Library in Bristol, VT initially joined, [7] but left before being added to the consortium's catalog. It has since joined VOKAL instead. As a result of concern over unrecovered transition costs from Lawrence Memorial leaving CLN, the board voted on September 22, 2014, to require new members to pay a non-refundable ...