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The Barnet Center Historic District encompasses a small cluster of buildings and a cemetery, which make up the original town center of Barnet, Vermont.Located on Barnet Center Road, it includes the 1849 Presbyterian church, vestry, and two residences, built between 1790 and 1898, as well as the town's first cemetery and a c. 1915 toolshed.
As of the 2010 census, the population of the CDP was 179, [4] compared to 1,367 for the entire town of Cavendish. Cavendish is the site of the 1848 accident where Phineas Gage got an iron rod shot through his skull while preparing a railroad bed. He survived, and after treatment became a case study for brain researchers.
Phineas P. Gage (1823–1860) was an American railroad construction foreman remembered for his improbable: 19 survival of an accident in which a large iron rod was driven completely through his head, destroying much of his brain's left frontal lobe, and for that injury's reported effects on his personality and behavior over the remaining 12 years of his life—effects sufficiently ...
In 1782, the first recorded town meeting occurred and Dutton was elected town clerk. He is credited with having conducted a 1784 survey for the first road from Duttonsville along the Black River to Ludlow (now Vermont routes 103 and 131). In 1786 he became the town's first justice of the peace. He also served as moderator of the town meeting ...
He graduated from Vermont Medical College in Woodstock [2] and worked for a time as a physician. While working on the Rutland & Burlington railroad in Cavendish, Vermont , with his former physics teacher Hosea Doton, [ 3 ] he was the first physician to treat railroad contractor Phineas Gage after Gage survived accidentally blasting a tamping ...
The town of Norwich was chartered in 1761 and settled the following decade. Its original town center was located north of the present village, which rose in significance due to its location nearer fertile lands adjacent to the Connecticut River, and the 1820 establishment of the American Literary, Scientific and Military Academy, now Norwich University.
The town of Bristol, Vermont, is located on the west side of Vermont's Green Mountains. It was settled in the 1780s, and was a basically agricultural community until the American Civil War. Its town center provided services to farmers in outlying areas, including a market for their goods and sawmills and gristmills for processing their lumber ...
The central Vermont town of Randolph was founded in 1783, with its civic center located on the crest of north–south ridge near the geographic center of the town. The ridge is traversed by Main Street (part of which is designated Vermont Route 66 ), and the village became an important stop on the stagecoach route between Boston, Massachusetts ...