Lake Dunmore Hotel Company records, 1832-1991.

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Lake Dunmore Hotel Company records, 1832-1991.

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Land deeds, inventories, insurance records, advertisements, and other records (1860-1870) of the Lake Dunmore Hotel Company under the ownership of William W. Goddard; records (1870-1878) of the sale of the hotel to John M. Dyer and auction of its furnishings with resulting financial and legal complications; deeds (1832-1849) of the Lake Dunmore Glass Company; correspondence (1865-1900) of William W. Goddard and members of his family; biographical sketches of members of the Goddard family and of J. Cady (1822-1892), photographer and artist; photographs and postcards showing the hotel, Lake Dunmore, and Middlebury, handwritten histories (author unknown) of the Vermont Glass Company, the Lake Dunmore Glass Company, and the Lake Dunmore Hotel Company; copies of newspaper and magazine articles (many undated, the most recent from 1991) about the history of Salisbury, the Glass Companies and their wares, including information about Epaphras Jones, Henry Schoolcraft, Deming Jones, and Samuel Swift.

.2 linear ft. (1 box)

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Cady, John R.

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Jones, Epaphras, 1764-1847

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Lake Dunmore Glass Company

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Swift, Samuel, 1782-1875

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Dyer, John M.

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Jones, Deming.

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Goddard family.

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Lake Dunmore Hotel Company (Salisbury, Vt.)

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The Vermont Glass Company, the first glass company in Vermont, was founded in 1810 and operated until 1818; the Lake Dunmore Glass Company occupied the same site in Salisbury, Vt., on Lake Dunmore from 1832 until 1843. In 1849, the Lake Dunmore Hotel Company was formed and purchased the land formerly owned by the Glass Company. William W. Goddard of Boston, Mass. purchased the hotel and most of the land around Lake Dunmore in 1860. Goddard operated the hotel unsuccessfully until 1870, when he so...

Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864

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Epithet: Vice-president of the American Ethnological Society British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000561.0x0000a9 Author, Indian agent and ethnologist. From the description of Henry Rowe Schoolcraft papers, 1826-1841. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34418398 Henry Schoolcraft was an ethnologist, geologist, Indian agent, and glass manufacturer. From th...

Vermont Glass Company

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Goddard, William W. (William Warren), -1874

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