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"Snowflake" Bentley -- Jericho's world famous snowflake authority

"Snowflake" Bentley -- Jericho's world famous snowflake authority is a Vermont historical marker in Jericho, Chittenden County.

Jericho Center Cir., in village, Jericho

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For fifty years Wilson A. Bentley, a farmer and self taught scientist, developed his technique of photomicrography to reveal to the world the grandeur and mystery of the snowflake its universal hexagonal shape and its infinite number of lovely designs.

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Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Historical maps covering this location

1823 · Vermont (Carey, 1823) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1872 · British North America. Sheet II, West. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1874 · Railroad and post office map of Vermont (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1874 · Vermont. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1885 · Vermont (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Vermont (Carey, 1823), 1823, covering the location of "Snowflake" Bentley -- Jericho's world famous snowflake authority, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Vermont (Carey, 1823), 1823, 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

"Snowflake" Bentley -- Jericho's world famous snowflake authority

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