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Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller NHP official site. Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller Mansion; Encyclopedia article with bibliography; Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. VT-27, "Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller Carriage Roads, Woodstock, Windsor County, VT", 44 photos, 9 color transparencies, 10 measured drawings, 43 data pages, 4 photo caption pages
Now in the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park. 71: Joseph and Daniel Marsh House: Joseph and Daniel Marsh House: September 3, 1998 : 1119 Quechee Main Street: Hartford: Now the Quechee Inn. 72
A Place in the Land considers the history of conservation stewardship in America as reflected in the property of Billings Farm, an operating dairy farm in Woodstock, Vermont first established in 1871, and the 555-acre (2.25 km 2) Mount Tom, as well as through the work of George Perkins Marsh, Frederick Billings, and Laurance Rockefeller, who ...
The district also includes the Billings Farm and Museum, and the George Perkins Marsh Boyhood Home, the architectural centerpiece of Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, and F. H. Gillingham & Sons, the oldest, same-family operated general store in Vermont. [8]
George Perkins Marsh was born in Woodstock, Vermont, to a prominent family.His father, Charles Marsh, had been a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.George Marsh graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, in 1816 and from Dartmouth College with highest honors in 1820 and taught at Norwich University the following year.
Michael J. Fox didn't have to travel back in time to buy this farm in South Woodstock, Vt., built in 1817. But he did own it briefly starting in the late 1980s. Now, it can be yours for $2.75 million.
Image credits: Photoglob Zürich "The product name Kodachrome resurfaced in the 1930s with a three-color chromogenic process, a variant that we still use today," Osterman continues.
The Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park is located in Woodstock, and is the only unit of the United States National Park System in Vermont (except for the Appalachian Trail). The park preserves the site where Frederick Billings established a managed forest and a progressive dairy farm. [25] [28]