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Vermont Through the Ages: Explore Historic Landscapes

Step back in time with over 2000 Vermont landscape images showing life in the past centuries. Witness copper mining, farming, floods, and more. Discover the heritage of Vermont at www.uvm.edu/perkins/landscape.

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Vermont Through the Ages: Explore Historic Landscapes

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  1. This display brought to you by the University of Vermont Geology Department and the National Science Foundation. To see thousands more images of Vermont landscapes go to www.uvm.edu/perkins/landscape

  2. Roasting Copper Ore, Vershire 1897 Flooding, Montpelier 1927 Farmstead, Randolph 1915 Roadbuilding, Burlington, 1935 IMAGINE What did Vermont look like years ago?

  3. Ely, Vermont 1896 Copper mining on barren, treeless slopes

  4. Burlington, Vermont 1935 Road building, without heavy machinery

  5. Randolph, Vermont 1915 Life and farming, without electricity

  6. Montpelier, Vermont 1927 The capitol city, afloat

  7. How can you look back in time?

  8. Images show us a vanished life Enjoying a hike Mt. Mansfield,Vermont How we got around Highgate Falls, Vermont Making a living somewhere in Vermont

  9. WE ARE A WEB-BASED ARCHIVE OF MORE THAN 2000 VERMONT LANDSCAPE IMAGES. www.uvm.edu/perkins/landscape ANYONE CAN FIND IMAGES. ANYONE CAN DONATE IMAGES. WE ARE THE WAY TO SEE VERMONT AS THE PLACE IT ONCE WAS.

  10. Derby, Vermont 1832 Lake Willoughby, Vermont 1854 Our earliest images predate photography.

  11. South Royalton, Vermont Logging with oxen Vermont Sawmill Underhill, Vermont Schoolhouse Danville, Vermont Pumpkin Hill Trestle Vermont was stripped of trees for farms and fires.` Vermont was stripped of trees for farms and fires.

  12. Woodstock, Vermont, 1915 Stone walls and a dirt road Richmond, Vermont, 1908 Gathered Corn Richmond, Vermont Milking the cows New Haven, Vermont, 1915 Berry picking Farmers kept the land clear for crops, sheep and cows. Farmers kept the land clear for crops, sheep and cows.

  13. Montpelier, Vermont about 1860 State Capital building with landslides Highgate Springs, Vermont Landslides after clearcutting, 1870s Mount Mansfield from Underhill, Vermont Charles Heyde, c. 1855-65 Gully Stumps Without the trees, erosion ravaged the landscape. Without the trees, erosion ravaged the landscape.

  14. Bradford, Vermont flooding in 1896 West Hartford, Vermont Ice jam flooding 1867 Proctor, Vermont Erosion from the flood of ‘27 Randolph, Vermont Bridge out, flood of ‘27 Winooski, Vermont, 1927 Bridge destroyed, mills underwater Floods came, houses moved, bridges collapsed. Floods came, houses moved, bridges collapsed.

  15. Ely, Vermont Cordwood for roasting copper ore Barre, Vermont Granite Quarry Can you see what mines and miners do to the land? Can you see what mines and miners do to the land?

  16. East Montpelier, Vermont Playing Music at the Bailey farm Winooski, Vermont Pontoon Bridge after flood of ‘27 Vershire, Vermont, 1897 Sawmill and Dam with oxen and a family farm Newbury, Vermont Outing by the water Were their lives really so different from ours? Were their lives really so different from ours?

  17. Rutland, Vermont Railyards Take a trip back in time Come visit a past Vermont www.uvm.edu/perkins/landscape www.uvm.edu/perkins/landscape www.uvm.edu/perkins/landscape

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