Dartmouth College Land Grant
Location: Wheelock
Tag(s): Education
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Video Date: 09/06/18
Dartmouth College owes much of its early support to a land grant in Wheelock, VT given by the Vermont Republic, which provided income to the school, and still provides tuition-free attendance for residents of the town.
This Place in History is produced in partnership by Local 22 & Local 44 (www.mychamplainvalley.com) and the Vermont Historical Society.
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Great Convention in Ferrisburgh
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Emma Willard in Middlebury
MacDonough Shipyard Vergennes
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Fort Sainte Anne
Sweet's Ferry
Roosevelt's Visit to Fisk Farm
St. Albans Raid
Camp Holbrook
Consuelo Northrop Bailey
Chester A. Arthur
Ray W. Collins
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Dr. Henry Janes House
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Henry M. Leland
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George F. Edmunds
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Little Italy
Hathorne School
Silas Wright
Early Black Settlers
Dr. H. Nelson Jackson
Andrew Harris
Mary Annette Anderson
Reverend George S. Brown
Alexander Twilight
Rokeby Museum
Mary Martha Fletcher
Grace Goodhue Coolidge
Sylvia Bliss
Mary Palmer Tyler
Flora Coutts
Clarina Howard Nichols
Sylvia Wright
Brandon Training School
Forestdale Ironworks
Stephen A. Douglas
UVM Morgan Horse Farm
Black Snake Affair
John Strong Mansion
Lake Champlain Bridge
Fort Saint-Frederic
Native Americans in the Champlain Valley
Battle of Bennington
Bennington Battle Monument
Dorset Quarry
Bennington Museum
Hildene
Smugglers' Notch
Old Red Mill
Royalton Raid
Joseph Smith Birthplace, Part 1
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Morrill Homestead
Eighteen Hundred and Froze to Death
General William Wells
One of Vermont's Pioneering Aviators
Hammond Covered Bridge
Rutland Italian American Club
Fort Vengeance
Disastrous Train Wreck
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Thaddeus Stevens
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John Dewey
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Buffalo Soldiers at Fort Ethan Allen
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Pavilion Building
Russell Munson
Thomas Chittenden
Rudyard Kipling's Naulakha
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Estey Organ Company Museum
Dr. Laura Plantz
John Humphrey Noyes
Anything For Speed Exhibit
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Catamount Stadium
Devil's Bowl Speedway
Monument Farms Dairy
Goodrich Family Farm
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Leerkes Farm, Inc.
McNamara Dairy
Kayhart Brothers Dairy
Home Acres Farm
Thomas Davenport
Clarendon Springs Hotel
Mount Holly Railroad
North Beach
Abby Maria Hemenway
Mount Philo
Airport Park
Rogers' Rangers
Theodore Vail
Mountain View Farm
Theodore Roosevelt International Highway
Shelburne Shipyard
Highway to Nowhere
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John McCrae
1918 Flu Pandemic
A Vermont Romance
Union Cooperative Store Bakery
First Unitarian Universalist Church
Images of Ethan Allen
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Johnson Historical Society
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Queen City Park
Merci Train
James Wilson
Maltex Cereal
Vermont Maid Syrup
The Vagabonds
The Long Trail
Colonel Elisha Sheldon
Fenian Raids
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Embodiment of Agriculture
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Morrisville History and Art Walk
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Morrisville Depot
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American System of Manufacturing
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Montgomery Mills
The Dairy Center
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Hardwick Granite Industry
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The Sleeping Sentinel
William Clarence Matthews
Contribution of Black Vermonters to the Civil War
Admiral H. T. Mayo
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Little River State Park
Waterbury Dam
Taft Lodge
Lake Dunmore Glass Factory
Ethan Allen's Cave
H. H. Holmes
Black Agnes Statue
Emily's Bridge
Smith Maple Crest Farm
Pierce's Store
Laurel Hall & Mausoleum
General George Stannard
Milton Speedway
Burlington Ravine
The Lumiere Brothers and Autochrome Photography
Pates Hotel
Warren Austin
Fletcher Free Library
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The Lost Mural Part 2
Ira Allen at UVM
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Atwater Kent
Circumferential Highway
Dorset Field Club
Harmon's Mint
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Little Jerusalem
Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site
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James Hartness
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Millstone Hill Part 2
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Captain Partridge and Citizen Soldiers
Van Ness House Hotel & Green Mountain Club
Rossignol Community Park
Wayside Restaurant
National Christmas Tree
Hope Cemetery
Paramount Theatre
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Porter Screen Company
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Winooski Centennial Celebration
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The Clark Office Building
The Champlain Valley Fair Centennial
Milton's History Museum
Lease Land
Milton's Co-op Creamery
Vermont's Slate Industry
Dog Team Tavern
Baseball Champion Larry Gardner
Elizabeth Mine of Strafford
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Samuel Morey's Steam Engine
Woodchuck Hard Cider
Henry Sheldon Museum
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North Star Community Hall
Alburgh's Atlas Missile Silo
Fort Montgomery
Blockhouse Point
Montpelier's Clothespin Industry
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Admiral George Dewey of Montpelier, Part 2
The Vermont History Center in Barre
Burlington's Soda Plant
UVM's Fleming Art Museum
Vermont's Poor Farms
Ethan Allen Water Tower
The Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum
The Mount Mansfield Ski Patrol
Vermont's Lost Ski Areas
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Preserving Peacham's Past
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Logging in Canaan
Ethan Allen Furniture
Lake Champlain's Movable Bridges
Washington County Sanatorium
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The East Barre Dam
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