Strafford VT

[racinchef]

Enjoyed a little history lesson today visiting near where I live. First picture is bank/post office/gas station/general store in South Strafford.

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From there on route 132 I turned northward on Tunbridge Rd renamed Justin Morrill Hwy to Strafford Village.

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[ringadingh]

I love seeing pictures of those old buildings, It just like old time USA from a bygone era.

[cactusjack]

Dang, better watch your step when you're leaving the town clerk's office.

Very picturesque. Like a postcard. I'd like to visit that part of the USA sometime, preferably on a bike.

[papat]

Those are some great pics need some old time gas pumps in the first one. I guess those are old time no place for credit card http://s2.images.proboards.com/grin.gif

[lw]

I'd like to visit that part of the USA sometime, preferably on a bike.

2010 Rally in that area?

[chainsaw]

I've been up that way. Sure is beautiful country. Great riding roads.

I haven't been in Vermont since 1966, so it would be nice to take a trip back there. I was almost 12 years old.

I seem to remember going to some big stone watchtower from the revolutionary war days, and buying maple candy, and seeing all the fall leaves (which we had all over in upstate New York as well) and eating fish in some huge barn of a restaurant, but that's about it.

[racinchef]

I haven't been in Vermont since 1966, so it would be nice to take a trip back there. I was almost 12 years old.

I seem to remember going to some big stone watchtower from the revolutionary war days, and buying maple candy, and seeing all the fall leaves (which we had all over in upstate New York as well) and eating fish in some huge barn of a restaurant, but that's about it.

Tried brainstorming that one, but could only come up with Fort Ticonderoga or one I heard of near Lake George.

I'll have to ask my mom. Heck, maybe the tower wasn't in Vermont at all. I just remember grandpa telling us we were going to Vermont.

[v0lusia]

I seem to remember going to some big stone watchtower from the revolutionary war days

Maybe the tower on MT Greylock, NW Mass, just south of VT

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Mount_Greylock_war_memorial.jpg/450px-Mount_Greylock_war_me morial.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Greylock

I recall it being much more rustic. Made from cut stone in a range of brown and reddish-brown tones, but not dressed smooth like that, and it was basically a cylinder of one single diameter.

OK, evidently I'm totally wrong. My mom says it was in Bennington VT., and the only stone tower I can find there is a square one, of dressed grey stone, built in 1880. And it has an elevator(!)

But I distinctly recall climbing stairs.

[racinchef]

OK, evidently I'm totally wrong. My mom says it was in Bennington VT., and the only stone tower I can find there is a square one, of dressed grey stone, built in 1880. And it has an elevator(!)

But I distinctly recall climbing stairs.

The answer is simple. Elevators where invented long after you visited the obelisk.

Well, I'm certain that it was sometime after the invention of dirt. ::)

It's so dang weird. I just do not recall it being a square obelisk, but I guess it was. And it did have stairs. I do not think we climbed to the top of it though. Grandpa was about 60 years old at the time. I think we did climb up the minimum distance where you could look out through a window or something.

I was too little to remember where in Vermont we vacationed at...but I totally remember the Maple candy that's shaped like leaves!!

[kawgirl]

Vermont is beautiful and has some of the best riding I have ever done on my Nomad. I posted the link to my video of some of the pics I took last summer in a thread, but here it is again. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m86f-8hPcX4

And here is the tower in Bennington.
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