Our 5th Annual Brief History of Vermont Road Names
Brave Little State
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The Last Road Name, Snipe Road
Raceway is the first road not named after a person or family. Garry says that road leads to a long, flat stretch of land, perfect for a horse race. After war's end, they made their way back to jericho and lived on what is now brown's trace. Their descendants still live in the area. Now for the answer to sam's final road name, snipe road. A snipe is a migratory bird that breathes from vermont to alaska and heads south for the winter. So an island full of snipes in a brook or in the manuski river likely the origin of the first half of that road name. The second half,
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