Shelburne museum, cspan is learning more about the history. Join us as we take a look at the rail history of vermont. Chip here we are at the train station at the shelburne museum, built in 1890 five dr. William a Rutland Railroad, and service with the Central Vermont Railway as well. It was essentially built to help out with Passenger Rail service for this region, but perhaps more importantly for the webbs to be of the able to travel as they wish, to go to their summer home, the down to new york city mayor to other areas around the country. It was billed for shelburne, however, and is served Passenger Rail service up until 1953. Point,at stopped at that Passenger Rail service in this region. It was then given to the posteritysseum for s sake, to allow people to be able to see it, and with much of the Railroad Memorabilia that is seen in these stations. Moved overland from shelburne here to the museum, which is not far away. It is probably a little less than a mile, one of the shortest
Its a campus of structures that sit on about 40 acres, and it is a village setting in many respects. But within that village, every structure houses an amazing collection. In 1947, amassed an amazing collection that the Shelburne Museum houses amongst 39 buildings. Its a plethora of objects and collections within collections, from impressionist art to weathervanes to Cigar Store Indians and one of the largest objects she collected, which was steamboat, which applied the waters of Lake Champlain from 19 61953. As i said, int, 1906, which you can look at as the cost or the changeover from spe steam era the cu from the steam era to the internal combustion engine. She was one of 29 steamers built on the lake and she was the last one. She basically operated on Lake Champlain as a day boat. Long,ke is over 125 miles but the ticonderoga ran from the vermont shoreline to the new new yorkne shoreline. Her homeport was burlington, vermont. The passages were about an hour or an hour and a half, b
Understanding the role Martin Luther king junior played in transforming our nation. Won thee way, Taylor Dayton peace prize, the National Humanities medal and many other prizes. But i think he would agree that this extraordinary career really when he took a very lowpay job with Charlie Peters, the legendary founder and editor of the washington politicala very small opinion and reporting magazine which still exists. I suspect taylor learned his trade as a journalist and book author while working for peters for three years. A few years later i went through a similar process myself, working for victor no the nation magazine in new york. Both of us became authors after immersing ourselves in journalism. Taylor and i also worked on the 1972 campaign for george mcgovern. He didnt know this but i was knockingwly canvasser, on doors in california, nebraska and minnesota. Taylor, however, had a more elevated Campaign Position in austin, texas, where he happened to share an apartment with one bi
Including a ira allen saw the potential of Burlington Bay as a court sitting. Lake champlain flows north a Lake Champlain flows into the st. Lawrence which gives at burlington, interestingly enough, even though it is an inland place, access to the ocean. Saw that ands became interested. The area did not take off despite the attempts by ira importantake this an place by putting the university here, making it the shire town of Chittenden County with the courts and so on. 1820d not take off until three whitney Champlain Canal was finished which connected the southern and of Lake Champlain to the hudson river. It opened up all of those markets to the south of vermont. One historian has said that before 1823, Lake Champlain tipped north. After 1823, it tipped south. Burlington grew tremendously in the 1820s. Having said that it grew tremendously, the population in 1830, 7 years after the canal only 3000 but in 1800 it had only been about 1000. So it was about a prosperous it was a prosperou
Talked to local historian vince feeney about the life of ira allen and his influence on the city in vermont. Vince here we are in whats called College Green of the university of vermont. Probably one of the prettiest spots in burlington. Behind me we have a statue of ira allen. Was the youngest of the six allen brothers, the most famous of whom was ethan allen. The statue is here because some would say that ira allen was the founder of the university of vermont and as this inscription on the statue says, some claim he was the founder of the state of vermont. I think there would be a lot of people who would contend that is not exactly true, particularly his older brother ethan might have something to say about that and people like the first governor of the independent state of vermont. Allen, andthat ira about 1772, came up here to vermont from connecticut, where the allens live, and at the time for montt was a New Territory being opened up. It was a territory claimed by the governor of