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On Justin Morrill Memorial Highway, 0.8 miles north of Alger Brook Road, on the right when traveling north.
Justin Smith Morrill 1810-1898
Born in Strafford Village, Justin S. Morrill was the son of a blacksmith. He entered politics in 1854 serving in the United States Congress for a total of nearly 44 years. As a member of the House of . . . — — Map (db m104075) HM
On Old City Falls Branch, 0.9 miles north of Justin Morrill Memorial Highway, on the left when traveling north.
Strafford was granted its charter on August 12, 1761. Land near here was chosen for the town's first settlement by its earliest pioneers, Ezekiel Parish and Frederick Smith. Both men with their families established homesteads in this vicinity by . . . — — Map (db m107647) HM
On Justin Morrill Memorial Highway at Brook Road on Justin Morrill Memorial Highway.
Born April 14, 1810, Senator Morrill served 43 years in the Congress. He won unique fame as author of the Morrill Acts, signed by Abraham Lincoln, 1862. These established our land-grant colleges and universities, securing and broadening higher . . . — — Map (db m65008) HM
On Justin Morrill Memorial Highway at Brooks Road on Justin Morrill Memorial Highway.
The Town of Strafford received its charter on August 12, 1761. By the 1790s the area surrounding the Common, known as Strafford Village, became the town center with a mill dam and mill, several homes, an inn, and a store. The Strafford Village . . . — — Map (db m100958) HM
On Vermont Route 132 at Furnace Flats Road, on the left when traveling east on State Route 132.
In this area, what may have been the first use of hot blast to smelt copper adjacent to a mine in the United States took place. During the winter of 1833-1834, Isaac Tyson, Jr., invented a hot-blast system for smelting copper. Assisted by smelting . . . — — Map (db m94486) HM