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TEACH ER PENS BOOK TO COMM EMORATE H ISTORY
GARY FURLONG, STUDENTS COLLECT IMAGES
NEW VOLUME ‘L ASTING CONTRIBUTION ’ IN 250TH YR.
By COURTNEY LAMDIN
Reprinted with permission from Milton, by Gary Furlong. Available from the publisher online at www.arcadiapublishing.com or by calling 888-313-2665.
JOSEPH CLARK WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN BRINGING THE RAILROAD TO MILTON. THIS 1849 ENGINE WAS ORGINALLY NAMED THE GOVERNOR PAINE AND WAS RENAMED JOSEPH CLARK IN 1869.
CLARK MADE M ILTON By LORINDA A. HENRY
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n 250 years, Joseph Clark, arriving in 1816 and staying until his death in 1879, was one of our finest citizens. During those years, Clark not only grew up with the town, he caused it to grow up with him. His business sense and hard work made an indelible impression upon the town. Born in Addison County on Feb. 2, 1795, he was the eldest of nine children. His parents came from Connecticut. After only a few years in Bridport, the family moved to Madison County, N.Y., where Clark grew up. He may have gone back to Connecticut for education, but at the young age of 20 in 1816, he came to Milton and went into the lumber business at West Milton. 1816 was known as Eighteen Hundred and Froze to Death – not a good year for most of the northeast because of the frosts and snow every month. Agricultural crops failed, but the woodlands Clark invested in survived, and while for many that was a breaking year that had them pulling up stakes and moving west, Clark stayed put. Milton was still covered by large tracts of pine. He cleared acres of woodland and sent vast quantities of lumber down the lake to Montreal. In 1823, when the Champlain Canal opened, so did the New York City market, and Clark began supplying spars for the shipping trade there. In order to finish raw timber, he purchased a sawmill in Milton, and in 1825 expanded his properties to include a partnership in a general store in West Milton. By 1825, he was a grand juror in town, and he remained active in town affairs all his life. Clark married Lois Lyon from Colchester; they had six children. In 1830, he built the brick house that still stands on the east side of the Lamoille in West Milton to house his family, but only five years later, he bought the brick homestead in Milton Falls. There, he built the brick office building next door. Behind the two was a handsome gristmill with six sets of stones. As the woods were leveled, other mills overtook the importance of sawmills, but eventually, as the land turned to fields, the volume of water lessened, and waterpower was diminished. Milling was no longer as forward-looking as it had been, and Clark began to look elsewhere for investment and opportunity. Railroads were adding miles of track across the U.S. each year, and Clark saw the future. He entered into partnership with John Smith and Lawrence Brainard to build the Vermont and Canada line from Essex Jct. to Rouses Point. A few years later, with J. Gregory Smith, he built the Vermont Junction Railroad from Swanton to St. Johns, Quebec. Smith worked to get Mil-
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Reprinted with permission from Milton, by Gary Furlong. Available from the publisher online at www.arcadiapublishing.com or by calling 888-313-2665.
LOOKING BACK ON A VISIONARY RESIDENT
ton on the line of the Central Vermont. A rail link and a station put Milton in a good position to become prosperous. With daily trains, larger markets for agricultural products were opened, and perishable foodstuffs were rushed to buyers in metropolitan areas. After the Civil War, in which 120 Milton men served, the town became a vacation destination. The trains brought visitors with comparable ease. With a beautiful location on Lake Champlain, and with ample supplies of fresh milk, meat, eggs and produce, Milton had everything for the perfect summer stay. Clark never rested on his reputation. The rest of his life, he remained on the boards of directors of railroads, going to offices in St. Albans until he was very old. He organized Farmers’ and Mechanics’ Bank in Burlington with John Peck. Clark was active in the Republican party and served three terms in the state senate. In 1849, he offered the town space for town meetings, and he gave financial support to three of Milton’s churches. After his death in 1879, his son, Jed P. Clark, remained in the family home on Main Street. Eventually, the property came to Joseph’s granddaughter, Kate. In 1916 she deeded it to the town to use for town business as long as we needed it. In the early 1990s, after the construction of new town offices on Bombardier Road, the Clark Memorial Building reverted to the heirs. In a way, that broke the bond between the Clark family and the town, but in a more important way, there is a historic connection that will never die. Without Joseph Clark’s energy and vision, we would hardly be the people that we are.
Holly Thayer and Courtney Racicot always knew the general history of their hometown. But it wasn’t until they helped piece together Milton’s past in photos that they felt connected to it. “It puts us in a different position, because we know where we come from,” Holly, 16, said. “People can say things about Milton, but this [history] is actually true.” Both Milton High School juniors, Holly and Courtney were among a small team of students, past and present, to help MHS history teacher Gary Furlong publish “Milton,” one of about 6,000 titles in the nationally-known “Images of America” series. The book includes more than 200 snapshots of life in Milton since its founding in 1763. Furlong, a 23-year resident and Milton Historical Society board member, began the work in March 2012. He found a talented, historically-inclined group of students to help with the biggest task: weeding through hundreds of photographs at the hot, stuffy School Street museum this past summer, many lacking identifying information. After 30 hours of this taxing work, the team organized the images by topic. As published, “Milton” has seven chapters showcasing businesses, life at the lake and disasters like fires and floods that often shape any town’s story. Many selections are of the old village and Main Street, the primary thoroughfare before Route 7 came along. A photo of the former town square, with its “cash store,” wheelwright shop and gristmill, with a horse-and-buggy outside, comes to life despite the black-and-white tone. Apparently, at one time, Catholics and Protestants would shop at different local markets, Furlong said. “You couldn’t go into Burlington without a lot of effort; people didn’t have automobiles, so everything was contained here,” Furlong said. The history teacher contrasted this with Milton’s contemporary identity as a bedroom community. But not that long ago, before the interstate was built, Milton was a destination town, with flatlanders from Boston and New York drawn to the Lake Champlain shore. “In the early 1900s, it was a pretty prosperous town,” Furlong said. “But you know life on the farm wasn’t that easy.”
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Indeed, Furlong’s “Milton” pays tribute to agriculture with portraits of longtime farming families. Some pictured, like the Rowleys and Sandersons, continue the tradition today. The students enjoyed learning that Milton was once divided into 14 school districts in 1869. This included the “Young Ladies Select School” on River Street, specializing in teaching girls Greek and Latin. In their research, Courtney and Holly found dress codes, specific down to the acceptable haircuts for boys, and a 1900era letter-to-the-editor from a man bemoaning the lack of support for schools. Some things don’t change. Furlong hopes townspeople will learn much about Milton’s growth from his book. “We’re changing just like any other place, but the history is one of the things that connects us to the past,” he said. For Holly, knowing Milton’s history, fires and all, grew her appreciation. From all her work on the book, she most took away that even after 250 years, Miltonians still have a shared interest and identity. “We still reside around a common thing, and it’s the town. We still have the same culture,” she said. “People come and people leave, but there’s always the town … it symbolizes the people.”
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T H E WA Y L I F E WA S . . .
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e know where we came from." So said Milton High School junior Holly Thayer, who helped teacher Gary Furlong publish "Milton," a photographic history of the town, for its 250th year. Thayer discovered much about her hometown in her research, and her comment illustrates a vital truth: Learning of times' past helps understand the present. Unless otherwise noted, the images on this and the following page are reprinted, with permission, from "Milton" by Gary Furlong. The title is available from the publisher online at www.arcadiapublishing.com or by calling 888-313-2665.
Photo and receipts courtesy of Phyllis Everest and Amy Morway
AS A YOUNG GIRL, PHYLLIS RYAN EVEREST, SEATED, IS PICTURED IN FRONT OF RYAN'S MARKET ON RAILROAD STREET WITH HER PARENTS, ELLA AND RALPH, TO HER LEFT AND RIGHT; HER OLDER SISTER, ALISON, AND STORE EMPLOYEES.
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hyllis Ryan Everest can’t quite remember why the family store’s float was the pinnacle of Milton’s bicentennial parade, but she surmised the judges who awarded Ryan’s Market the first prize must have liked smoked meat. The flatbed trailer pulling the late Duane Ryan and his two good friends in the 1963 parade featured the men cutting a giant slab of bacon, drinking from a large jug and, according to a St. Albans Messenger article from the time, actually smoking a ham with burning corn cobs. Smoked meats were the specialty at Ryan’s Market, a Railroad Street general store Everest’s parents, Ralph and Ella Ryan, opened in the early 1920s. The story of their business – and their contribution to Milton’s history – is well documented by the family and by Milton historians alike. Phyllis Everest shared her version of events from the family home on Beech Road, where she lives with her daughter, Amy Morway. According to a family history, penned in 1997 by Everest’s older sister, Ralph Ryan’s father and grandfather owned a meat delivery business, and a store seemed like the next logical step. Everest stuffed the written piece with family photos and mementos, which she and Morway shared on a recent Thursday. The S&H Green Stamps, an unused pad of Ryan’s Market charge receipts and vintage ladies’ stockings still in their original package all help tell the store’s history. Ralph and Ella opened Ryan’s Market in 1923 or 1924, before Everest and her younger
siblings, Mary and Duane, were born. Everest was effectively raised at Ryan’s Market; the family lived next door, and she started working as a child and continued for more than two decades, even after she married Herb Everest and contributed on their family farm near Lake Champlain in West Milton. She also had a 20plus year career as a postal clerk in Milton. “I liked working at the store. That kept me out of the housework, too,” the 86-year-old said with a laugh. Ryan’s Market employees took on all tasks necessary to run the store: Ringing up customers on the adding machine or charging to their tab, “putting up” orders and delivering them from the village to West Milton and beyond. Everest’s favorite task was running the meatsaw, which she started doing around age 19, following in her father and brother’s footsteps, she said. She also loved working with the other employees, who included many noted Milton residents, like artist and former teacher Mary Ann Duffy Godin, Town Clerk/ Treasurer John Cushing and former Historical Society president and teacher Gwen Brown.
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Brown, who moved away from Milton in 2011 to live with her daughter in Hartland, recalled her time at Ryan’s Market in the 1960s and early 1970s fondly. “I enjoyed it, I tell ya,” she said over the phone last month, adding the storeowners allowed her to bring her adult son, Dennis, with her to work. Dennis was mostly mute and communicated very little with signs and motions, Brown said. He took on many of the same tasks as Ryan’s employees, accompanying delivery drivers and putting up orders. “I said we were the first people in Milton to employ the handicapped … He unpacked groceries a lot [and] put them on the shelves,” Brown said, adding, “Phyllis thought a lot of Dennis.” In one of Everest’s favorite stories, she was packing groceries for a delivery one day, while Dennis was trying to communicate something. “Your car was in the garage, and it wasn’t back yet,” Morway said, helping her mother finish the story. “He knew the car wasn’t there, but everybody else had forgotten.” When the Milton Cooperative Creamery closed in the mid-1970s, the Ryans’ built-in customer base diminished, and Duane, who purchased the market from his parents in 1959, closed its doors. Grand Union had set up shop on River Street, and the economic and social center of Milton was shifting away from the village. The store Everest’s parents built now houses a long-closed electronics repair shop, and the Creamery, in disrepair, is up for tax sale later this month. Milton’s new downtown area is under construction, making way for a modern chain grocery store. The growth and differences in population reflect what Everest has seen in her lifetime in Milton. “Phyllis Ryan Everest: A Life and History of Community,” a 2012 article written by Allison Belisle for the Historical Society’s “Milton’s History in Person” series, and materials collected by Milton resident and Everest family friend Barb Hutchins were invaluable resources for this story.
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The Milton Times courtesy of Jim Ballard
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TOP, LILLIAN AND EMMA PRATT, SISTERS, ARE PICTURED IN FRONT OF THEIR FAMILY HOME ON MAIN STREET IN THE 1890 s . THE 18ROOM STRUCTURE, BUILT BY CHARLES ASHLEY, WAS ONCE DOCTOR LUMAN HOLCOMBE'S OFFICE. MIDDLE, THESE TWO ADVERTISEMENTS APPEARED IN THE MARCH 21, 1906 EDITION OF THE MILTON TIMES NEWSPAPER. BELOW, THE 1959 MILTON HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS BASKETBALL TEAM POSES FOR A PHOTO.
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LEFT, A POSTCARD SENT BY ORLOW SANDERSON TO AN ILL FRIEND DEPICTS A 1900 s VISION OF WHAT LIFE IN MILTON MIGHT BE LIKE IN THE FUTURE, INCLUDING A WEST MILTON MONORAIL AND A SUBWAY TO FAIRFAX. BELOW, LEFT TO RIGHT: 1) THE PLAINS SCHOOL NEAR HOBBS AND MIDDLE ROADS WAS ONE OF EIGHT ONEROOM SCHOOLHOUSES IN MILTON THAT WERE CONSOLIDATED IN THE MID1950 s . 2) A TRAIN SCHEDULE PRINTED IN A 1906 EDITION OF THE MILTON TIMES INFORMS TRAVELERS. 3) IT WAS COMMONPLACE FOR LOCALS TO HOLD CELEBRATIONS OF PRESIDENTS' INAUGURATIONS. THIS INAUGRATION TICKET WAS FOR A MARCH 1869 PART Y FOR PRESIDENT-ELECT ULYSSES S. GRANT, 18th PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
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STORIES PRESERVE 7 GENERATIONS LINDA BALLARD TRACES SANDERSON FARMING ROOTS
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he old saying goes, “You’re not a true Vermonter unless your family’s been here at least seven generations.” If that’s true, Linda Ballard (née Sanderson) is a Vermonter. She’s actually a seventh generation Miltonian and is the first female born in her family line in 140 years. The last was her great-great aunt, Julia Sanderson, born in 1816. Linda Ballard’s family is one of the original Milton lines that helped build the town. The Sandersons were farmers and have worked the same plot for 209 years. “It’s just part of our nature; it’s part of who we are,” Linda’s husband, Jim, said at their home, just a mile up the aptly-named Sanderson Road from the original family farmhouse. That home burned and was rebuilt in 1831, and seven generations have lived there, including Linda’s father, Loren, a beloved Miltonian and Grange master who died in 2010. The Sanderson story begins with John Sanderson, Linda’s four-times-great grandfather. John Sanderson was a Revolutionary War veteran who moved here from Whately, Mass. on March 4, 1804, the ground covered in four feet of snow. He and wife, Phebe, first settled near Arrowhead Mountain but moved to the present-day farm in September that year. “It was just starting up, so it was very hard,” Jim Ballard said. “[There was] a lot of clearing the land, stump fences, selling the potash for fertilizer.” One of John’s sons, Levi, had nine children, but five died in infancy. The one surviving girl was Julia. Two of Julia’s brothers eventually moved to the Midwest, one becoming the center of a scandal when, at age 80, his 28-year-old wife murdered him by feeding him ground glass. The family still has newspaper clippings about the incident, but they proved hard to find in Linda and Jim’s home, full of artifacts like wooden bowls, butter churns, postcards and more from their families’ pasts. The farm was passed down to Levi’s son, Charles Proctor, born 1824, and then to his son, Charles Lucius Sanderson, born 1856. He was Linda’s great grandfather. Three of Charles Lucius’ five sons – Alton, Ulysses Grant and Clyde – died of diphtheria in 1890, but one, Charles Orlow, born 1897, lived on and ran the farm until his death. Orlow, as he was known, was also a mail carrier for 30 years, partially to supplement farming income but mostly because he enjoyed it, Linda said of her grandfather. She once found Orlow’s civil service exam, on which he scored 90 percent. Linda’s farming memories begin with Orlow. She remembers riding to school in his truck with her brother, Dale, stopping at the Milton Cooperative Creamery on Railroad Street to drop off milk canteens. It wasn’t until bulk tanks were installed in the 1960s that those daily trips ceased. Through time, technology changed the farm. The original Sandersons did everything manually, from milking cows to pulling huge hooks to move hay bales in the barn. The first family tractor was purchased in 1921. The advent of electricity changed farm life forever: “You could do things twice as fast, if not more than that,” Linda said. Her maternal grandfather, Edwin Cadreact, was one of the last people in Milton to get power, she said. Linda remembers getting their first television in 1959. She was 3 years old and unsure of that loud, black box. She peeked around a
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HISTORICAL SOCIET Y CHARTER MEMBER PAUL MEARS, BACKGROUND, AND ERNEST TURNER, A LONGTIME FRIEND OF THE GROUP, PAINT THE WALLS OF THE SCHOOL STREET MUSEUM ON JANUARY 9, 2001.
M ILTON MUSEUM HOLDS 250 YEARS OF HISTORY TODA Y'S HISTORIC AL SOCIET Y RO OT ED I N CO M M U N I T Y By JACQUELINE CAIN
Reprinted with permission from Milton, by Gary Furlong. Available from the publisher online at www.arcadiapublishing.com or by calling 888-313-2665.
LINDA BALLARD'S GRANDFATHER, ORLOW SANDERSON, AND FATHER, LOREN, ARE PICTURED IN THIS UNDATED PHOTO. THE FAMILY STILL OWNS THE SAME MILTON FARM, AN OLD PICTURE OF WHICH IS BELOW.
corner, her then-waist-length hair swaying and giving her observation post away. Life was simpler then, Linda recalled. Farming families settled further from town and socialized on Saturday nights, gathering for “kitchen tunks,” in-home dances after a farmer’s weekly bath, Linda said, laughing. Her father, Loren, played piano. Farmers also made use of the Grange, which was, and still is, active in lobbying for farmers’ interests. Though farming families were fairly self-sufficient, they still went “out to the village” to buy staples like flour at little general stores. Before buildings were decimated in the 1927 flood, Milton’s downtown thrived with a carriage shop, gristmill and others. The Sandersons took the outings seriously: “You wouldn’t just go in your old farm pants,” Linda said; you never knew who you’d see. But it was always back to the farm, where there was much work to do. The Sandersons kept cows until 2007, using their milk to make, and probably sell, butter. Huge pans collected the milk, which was skimmed of cream before running down a trough to the hog house. The cream went into churns for butter. The cow barn, built in 1878, still stands. The farm had horses, mostly for work and not pleasure, though Loren enjoyed riding every now and then. Linda never did. “Being a girl, they didn’t want me around anything where I could get hurt,” she said. “Today, the girls will run around like the guys.” Linda remembers riding hay wagons and going blackberry- and currant-picking for jam. She and Dale would play farm and school in their spare time.
Life was more family-oriented before the interstate was built and before radio, telephones and television became popular. Though those things exist today, Linda and Jim Ballard are committed to some old ways of life. The couple owns a portion of the old farmland, where they grow raspberries they sell at Milton’s farmers market and to Oliver Seed Company on Main Street. With a group of handy college students and friends, the Ballards grow squash, tomatoes and zucchini. Many area restaurants buy their produce. Dale rents his pastures for haying and still sells eggs. As for the old farmhouse, it’s now occupied by Dale’s son, Linda’s nephew, William, who works for the town highway department. A relic of the old life remains: Loren’s and his late wife, Jessica’s, names still hang above the old farmhouse door on a worn, wooden sign. The Ballards honor the Sanderson history by keeping the family ethic of work before play, by farming the land and by telling stories. Much of the history was preserved through tales, told through generations before Loren wrote it all down in 1997. Another old saying comes to mind: “You always have to know where you came from to know where you’re going,” Linda said. “It’s instilled in us at a very young age: You pass it on,” she continued. “And you don’t think about doing anything different.” The Sanderson family history was gleaned from interviews with Linda and Jim Ballard, “Sanderson Farm and Family History” by Loren Sanderson and “Milton’s History in Person: Loren Sanderson” by Allison Belisle in Historically Speaking.
The Milton Historical Society has played a persistent role in the celebrations of the town’s 250th year. It hosted its annual sugar-on-snow party in honor of the milestone in March and opened its museum doors to people like author Gary Furlong, who helped preserve history as his birthday gift to the town. But for a few years in the early 2000s, more than two decades after the society opened a museum, the Milton Historical Society was forced to put its artifacts away in storage. “It looked like we would never have a museum again,” past Historical Society President Gwen Brown said. The Historical Society opened its one-room museum on the second floor of the Clark Memorial Building on Main Street, above the old town offices and library, in 1978. But when the municipal offices got new digs in the late 1990s, the cost of heating and maintaining it was too high, and the society shut the doors and scouted potential new spaces. The collection, mainly comprised of donations from longtime Milton families, helps tell the town’s story and the larger history of life in Vermont. When the Clark Memorial museum closed, the collected artifacts filled an entire storage unit in a Checkerberry facility and cost the society $75 a month to house, Brown recalled. The two oak, slant-topped tables that sit in the museum today were kept in a barn on Lake Road. The society met regularly, though changed locations to the American Legion Hall. “I was very unhappy about closing the museum,” Brown said. “It’s important to see those things, to teach your kids about their history.” A year and a half after the museum closed, Milton’s Episcopal congregation left its church on School Street. Brown entered talks with the diocese, and the selectboard helped lead the charge to purchase and renovate the church with an April 1999 ballot initiative. Three letters to the editor supporting Article VII were printed in the April 8, 1999 issue of the Milton Independent. In one, Brown told readers that in 1978, Milton voted 887 – 320 to support the Clark museum, then townowned. The next week, a two-thirds majority authorized using $100,000 in town money to purchase and outfit the church as the new museum, the Milton
Independent reported. “We were glad to have the chance on that, glad the voters voted for it,” she said, adding she was skeptical voters would support the hefty price tag. Today, the museum is as well used as ever, said Lorinda Henry, director and charter member. The Historical Society meets there monthly and frequently hosts community groups and speakers, which are well-attended events. The museum is staffed by volunteers and is open to walk-in visitors the first and third weekends of each month. A highway sign along Route 7 is instrumental in informing the traveling public about the museum. “The way Milton has grown, School Street isn’t central to people’s lives anymore,” Henry said. While she acknowledges the sadness the Episcopal congregation must have felt in selling their church – Milton Historical Society includes some former parishioners – Henry said the society has given the church “a respectable career.” “We’ve used the building well. Nobody had to tear it down or make it commercial,” she said. On a recent Friday afternoon, a second grade class from Milton Elementary School and their pen pals from So. Hero’s Folsom Education and Community Center visited as part of a history project. Henry helped the children locate a variety of photos and objects representing Milton’s past as they went on a historical scavenger hunt. While the Historical Society worked closely with fourth grade classes in Milton since its inception, Henry said students of different age groups visit the museum now. One reason the church was so desired was due to its proximity to the schools, Brown said. The museum hosted Monday night’s Selectboard meeting this week. Attendees watched the proceedings from pews that churches in town donated over the years, while board members and the town manager sat around the larger of the two oak tables original to the museum’s collection. Henry said the Historical Society is happy to share the facility with students, town boards, residents, tourists and anyone who wants to learn more about Milton. “I want to get people away from thinking [the museum] belongs to the Historical Society,” she said. “It belongs to the town.”
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MILTON ELEMENTARY AND FOLSOM EDUCATION CENTER (SO. HERO) STUDENTS GO ON A HISTORICAL SCAVENGER HUNT AT THE MILTON MUSEUM ON FRIDAY, MAY 31.