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3 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

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

5 Ely, Vermont 1896 Copper mining on barren, treeless slopes

6 Road building, without heavy machinery Burlington, Vermont 1935

7 Life and farming, without electricity Randolph, Vermont 1915

8 The capitol city, afloat Montpelier, Vermont 1927

9 How can you look back in time?

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

11 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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