Mead's Falls

Mead's Falls is a Vermont historical marker in Rutland, Rutland County.

Rutland County · Route 4, Center Rutland at Simons Avenue, Rutland

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James Mead, Rutlands first settler, arrived at these falls on the Otter Creek in 1769. The next year he and his family were given shelter by members of the Caughnawaga tribe while they finished their log cabin. Mead built saw and grist mills on the falls and ran a ferry on the Otter Creek. He was an ardent defender of the New Hampshire Grants and served as a colonel in the militia. Meads Falls was an important military site: the 1759 Crown Point Military Road ran by here, General Arthur St. Clair wrote his report after the Battle of Hubbardton in 1777 at Meads home on the West Proctor Road, and Fort Ranger was built in 1778 on the bluff northeast of the falls.

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Mead's Falls

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