On this site Castleton State College, Vermont’s first college and the eighteenth oldest in the nation, was first established as the Rutland County Grammar School, chartered by the General Assembly of the Republic of Vermont on October 15, 1787. The . . . — — Map (db m78184) HM
Thousands of immigrants from Ireland, Italy and across Europe helped make this region an epicenter of the marble Industry. Quarries drew workers and artists to Rutland County starting in the late 1700s. By the late 1800s, Vermont Marble Company . . . — — Map (db m229878) HM
Dr. Charles Caverly identified the first polio epidemic in the world, in Rutland County in 1894. Sporadic cases of paralysis and related symptoms began to appear around the world in the mid-1800s, but they were not typically connected, and a . . . — — Map (db m304072) HM
The 54th Massachusetts Regiment, the first African-American regiment formed after the Emancipation Proclamation, included dozens of Vermonters, 20 enlisted in Rutland, many born in Rutland County.
The regiment helped debunk military beliefs . . . — — Map (db m229886) HM WM
Wallingford native Paul Harris founded Rotary, one of the world’s most successful humanitarian organizations. After college and law school, Harris settled in Chicago. Longing for the kind of camaraderie he enjoyed in Rutland County, he started the . . . — — Map (db m246428) HM
