Tag: Vermont Landscape
Miller’s Run Covered Bridge in Lyndon Vermont.
On the back roads of Stowe Vermont.
The Estey Organ Company in Brattleboro, Vermont
For a century the Estey Organ Company in Brattleboro, Vermont was the largest Organ (music) manufacturer in the United States. In 1852 Jacob Estey founded the company and bought out another Brattleboro manufacturing business. At its peak, the company employed more than 500 people, and sold its high-quality items as far away as Africa, Great Britain, Australia, and New Zealand. Estey built around 500,000 to 520,000 pump organs between 1846 and 1955. Estey also produced pianos, made by the Estey Piano Company in New York City.
Interesting read – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estey_Organ
The Fisher Covered Railroad Bridge in Wolcott, Vermont
The Fisher Covered Railroad Bridge is a covered bridge in Wolcott, Vermont. Built in 1908, it originally carried the St. Johnsbury and Lamoille County Railroad over the Lamoille River. Now closed, it was the last covered bridge in Vermont to carry railroad traffic, and is a rare surviving example in the state of a double Town lattice truss. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
Return trip to Barre Vermont
I took a return trip to this barn near Barre with the thought of using it for next year’s calendars. I may use this picture after all.
Creamery Covered Bridge in Brattleboro, Vermont
Along RT2 in Marshfield Vermont on a frigid winter day.
From last winter. Earlier this winter, the roof caved in below the left hand cupola. Not a pretty site. I will stop for a new picture the next time I am out that way.
Emily’s Covered Bridge makes for some great pictures.
Pictures of Emily’s Covered Bridge never get old
