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Derby Line is known for the Haskell Free Library and Opera House, a line house deliberately constructed on the international border and opened in 1904. The founders were a binational couple: Carlos F. Haskell was a local American businessman who owned a number of sawmills, while Martha Stewart Haskell was Canadian.
It meets Vermont Route 108 at the border, in an area dotted with farm properties and woodlands. The Canadian border station is directly north of the border, its facilities set between the north and southbound lanes of the road. The United States station is located about 200 feet (61 m) south of the border, on the west side of the road.
Canada Customs had a station from the mid-1930s to 1939, then reopened in 1948. It was replaced with a new border station in the mid-1950s, which permanently closed on March 31, 1969. [43] The Canada border station was converted into a private home that has been updated substantially.
Abolitionist Place — New York City: Brooklyn. Abolitionist Place is a section of Duffield Street in downtown Brooklyn that used to be a center of anti-slavery and Underground Railroad activity. New York City was one of the busiest ports in the world in the 19th century.
The Norton–Stanhope Border Crossing connects the towns of Stanhope, Quebec and Norton, Vermont on the Canada–US border. The crossing, at the meeting point of Quebec Route 147 and Vermont Route 147, is the only crossing between the two communities. The US border station, built in 1933, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places ...
A small village grew around it on both sides of the border. In 1934, the US built a border inspection station at Morses Line, and Canada built a new border station in 1952. [1] Canada replaced its border station in 2015. The original 1934 US border station remains in use, and of all the 163 US land border inspection stations, it is the oldest ...
The Beebe Plain–Beebe Border Crossing is a border crossing station on the Canada–United States border. It connects Rue Principale (Quebec Route 247) in Beebe Plain, Quebec (a former municipality, since 1995 part of the town of Stanstead) with Beebe Road in Beebe Plain, a village in Derby, Vermont. Both the US and Canadian station buildings ...
US 2 in Vermont. The eastern segment of US 2 begins in New York at an intersection with US 11 just one mile (1.6 km) south of the Canadian border in Rouses Point.From there, it crosses Lake Champlain into Grand Isle County, traversing the length of the county and crossing Lake Champlain over several bridges until it reaches the mainland in Milton and Chittenden County.