The original research of The Vermont Eugenics Survey of the 1920s and ’30s led to institutionalization and to the Vermont Legislature legalizing involuntary sterilization for so-called defective citizens in 1931.
Photo: Aerial rendering of Colchester Exit 16. Courtesy Photo.
by C.B. Hall, Vermont Business Magazine While the Agency of Transportation s list of highway projects this year is prodigious (see below), the agency does a lot more than replace worn pavement and fix bridges on Vermont s state, federal and interstate roadways.
AOT and its many partners also reconfigure city streets, maintain state-owned rail corridors, develop bicycle-pedestrian trails, build sidewalks, and perform an abundance of other infrastructure chores.
These other projects, often managed by towns and cities, tend to be more interesting than the usual routine of installing traffic lights and paving over potholes. This year, for example, AOT s work list will include reinforcing the stone underpinnings of the covered bridge that connects Windsor with Cornish, New Hampshire.
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MONTPELIER â Ninety years to the day a bill legalizing sterilization targeting Abenaki people, French Canadian and French Indian immigrants, the poor and the mentally ill was signed into law, the Vermont House of Representatives confronted the grim history of the stateâs eugenics movement and unanimously endorsed a resolution apologizing for its actions nearly a century ago.
In the resolution, the General Assembly âsincerely apologizes and expresses its sorrow and regret to all individual Vermonters and their families and descendants who were harmed as a result of State-sanctioned eugenics policies and practices.â