Trains & Roads
Which of our school district towns does Route 15 pass through?
Jericho and Underhill
Name two ski areas in these towns
Cochran's, Bolton Valley
What river had the most mills on it in the 1800s?
Browns
What was the primary reason most of our forests were cleared 200ish years ago?
Sheep pasture
What are there an estimated 125,000 miles of in the woods of New England?
Stone walls
You get on a train in Bolton and your friend gets on one in Underhill... Where could you get off at the same station to meet up?
Essex Junction
Name the elementary schools in these three towns
Richmond, Smilie, Brewster Pierce
Name an active farm in one of these towns today
Jericho Settlers, Farm Upstream, Mazza's, Davis, Arcana, Chamberlin's, Moose Mountain, Rolling Meadows, Settlement, etc.
It's 1870 in your town... Compared to today, are there more or fewer schools? Why?
More due to slower transportation
Which one of our towns raised multiple Olympic-medal winners?
Richmond (the Cochrans)
What highway number now goes through Richmond and Bolton?
I-89
Name an active farm in one of these towns today.
Maple Wind, Conant's, Owl's Head, Farr...
How high in the nearest thousands of feet above sea level is Mt. Mansfield?
4,000
What company with a campus in Essex Junction was the biggest employer in our area for many years and contributed to the big rise in population in our school district starting in the 1960s?
IBM
What is the name of the now-closed elementary school on the border of Jericho and Underhill?
Underhill I.D.
What/who is the road we're on right now named after?
(Joseph) Brown and family
What is the name of the village that sits on the border between Richmond and Bolton?
Jonesville
Name one of the traditional "villages" of Underhill besides the Center and Flats.
Cloverdale, Stevensville, North Underhill
Which town had the largest population in the district for several decades besides Jericho?
Richmond
Which of our five towns was created years after the other four?
Richmond
Where were the 6 main train stations in our school district?
Jericho, Underhill Flats, North Underhill, Richmond, Jonesville, Bolton
What product was once mass-produced in the former factory building on Main St. (now the Goodwin-Baker building)?
Underwear
Who is the biggest landowner in Jericho in terms of total land area?
The United States Government (the Range)
Which village in our district had mills, businesses, and a large church in the 1800s... all of which is gone today?
West Bolton
Name the former Vermont town that was dissolved and split into expanded parts of Underhill and Stowe.
Mansfield