Rutland Town History

Contents: “Bush Willie” Farm – 2 The Cheney Hill farm – 3 Davis Farm – 4 The Dyer Homestead – 5 Western View farm – 6 Dickinson Farm – 7 Milk Peddlers Who Lived in Rutland Town – 8 Center Rutland Athletic Club – 9 Center Rutland Post Office – 10 The Railroad Station at Center Rutland – 11 Vermont Marble Company – Center Rutland – 12 Center Rutland Power House – 13 Vermont Marble Sand Pit near Cheney Hill – 14-15 Watering Trough – 16 RD # 1 Rutland Town (Then and Now) – 17-18 Glen Post Office – 18 Rutland # 111 – Vermont Archaeological Site – 19 Sand Hill Water Trough – 19 The Eddy Ice Company – 20-22 Rutland Fire Clay Company – 23-27 Rutland Town School Teachers – 28 Rutland Town Hall of Fame-1900-1990 – 28 State Representatives From Rutland Town – 29 Old Businesses in Rutland Town – 30 From the Rutland Town Bicentennial Sampler-1776-1976 – 31 The First Settler – 35-36 The First White Child Born in Rutland Town – 37 Mead Marker on West Proctor Road – 38 Center Rutland Falls – 39 Fort Ranger – 39 Campbell-Sharp Descendants in the Town of Rutland – 40-41 Old Billings Bridge on Otter Creek Meadows – 42 The Billings Farm – 43-46 Century Farms – 47 The Kellogg Farmhouse on Route # 7 – 47 The Hawley Farm – 48 Revolutionary War Soldiers Buried in Rutland Town, Vermont – 49-50 The Story of Daniel Greeno – 51 East Creek – 52-53 Thomas Dairy – 54 Rutland Cheese Factory – 55 The History of the Davis Farm and Family – 56-58 How the Town Was Named – 59 Three Towns from One – 59 When the City and Town Separated – 60 Rutland Town Elementary School – 61 Page from the Rutland Town Report 1893 – 62 Rutland Town Schools 1892-1893 – 63-64 The Post Road School 1919 – 65-66 Old Center Rutland School – 67-68 This I Saw – 69 Read at Dedication Exercises of New Cheney Hill School -1941 – 70-72 Once Upon a School Day – 1939 – 73-74 Rutland Town’s Gleaming New $675,000 School Is Nearly Ready – 75 Dyer School – 76 The Church at Center Rutland – 77 The Mill Village Chapel – 78-79 History of the Mission Covenant Church, Center Rutland, Vermont – 80-81 “Upon This Rock” – 82-83 Rutland Town’s Big Elm – 83 The Story of the Homestead of Abraham W. Whiting, Post Road – 84-85 Improved Town Roads Built By Three Generations of the Fish Family – 86 Covered Bridges of East Creek – 87-94 A Bridge to End Bridges – 95 Otter Creek Bridges – 96 -100 A Journey From Czechoslovakia – 101 The Solari Family – 102 The Influence of the Scandinavians on Rutland Town – 103-104 Grampa Wheeler – the Blacksmith – 104-105 Who Built the Mill in Mill Village – 106-108 Mill Village-1910 – 109 Milk Peddling – 110 Memories of the 1947 Flood at the Williams Farm – 111-114 Rutland Town Volunteer Fire Department – 115-116 The Rutland Town Bicentennial File – 117 Power Generation Pictures – 118 Rutland Town’s Big Elm Tree at the Williams Homestead – 119 President Coolidge Leaving Rutland –August 3, 1923 – 120