Island Pond

Island Pond is a Vermont historical marker in Essex County.

In village, near railroad station, Brighton (Island Pond)

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Pioneer Railroad Planner John A. Poors dream of an International Railway connecting Montreal, Canada with the Ice-free harbor of Portland, Maine became a reality on July 18, 1853, when the first through trains met at this great halfway point on the Grand Trunk Railway.

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Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library

Historical maps covering this location

1841 · New Hampshire & Vermont (H. S. Tanner, 1841) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1845 · Vermont, N.H. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1849 · Vermont & New Hampshire. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1854 · Telegraph and rail road map of the New England states (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1876 · Plan of Orleans Co., Vermont. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

New Hampshire & Vermont (H. S. Tanner, 1841), 1841, covering the location of Island Pond, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — New Hampshire & Vermont (H. S. Tanner, 1841), 1841, covering this location. Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Marker data: Vermont Division for Historic Preservation

Island Pond

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