Bearings: Your Local Guide
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Bearings: Your Local Guide :
The day the railroad was finished at this same summit in 1849, they mixed Lake Champlain water with Boston Harbor water and celebrated with rum and hard cider. Would you rather see the tusk or the spot where they found it?
2026-09-28 15:21:51
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Fiddler’s Green Farm :
Yesss vermont!!
2026-09-30 01:07:27
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Bearings: Your Local Guide :
Sources: Zadock Thompson, Appendix to the History of Vermont (1853), pp. 14-15. Vermont Geological Survey (DEC) educational leaflet "The Mount Holly Mammoth". VTDigger "Then Again" (2019). Dartmouth news (March 2021) and Kitchel et al., Boreas (2021) on the radiocarbon date. 1 V.S.A. § 509 (state fossils). Historical marker "Mount Holly Railroad History" (Vermont Division for Historic Preservation, 2015). Rutland Herald; Wikipedia: Charlotte whale. Photos: Charlotte Whale marker by Niranjan Arminius (CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons); "Healdville, VT" by Shannon McGee (CC BY-SA 2.0, Flickr); both cropped and toned. Other images public domain / CC0: Charles R. Knight paintings, Thompson 1853, EB1911, Agassiz 1840, c.1910 postcard, Rijksmuseum.
2026-09-28 15:21:44
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Bearings: Your Local Guide :
This is Bearings telling the story as you drive past the site in Vermont. Search “Bearings: Your Local Guide” on the App Store for history stories like this on the road anywhere in the world. Also available at link in my bio!
2026-09-28 15:20:36
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