East Pittsford Dam, Vermont, 1913 – Vintage Photo Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with East Pittsford Dam, Vermont, 1913, a historic image rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: East Pittsford Dam
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East Pittsford Dam, Vermont, 1913
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East Pittsford sits in Rutland County in west-central Vermont, a farming and quarrying district in 1913 where dairy herds, hay, apples, and small mills along the Otter Creek drew local life. The dam here harnessed the creek's fall to power a mill and supply water, the kind of modest hydraulic works that many Vermont villages depended on before electric grids reached their hillsides. Pittsford as a whole was known to Vermonters for its marble and slate, and the nearby Rutland region ran on railroad freight, with the Rutland Railroad carrying dairy, stone, and lumber to markets in Boston and New York. By 1913 the state was still recovering from the decades of out-migration to western cities, and rural towns like this one were watching their young people leave for factory work.
| Created / published | 1913 |
|---|---|
| Creator | brehmer, l. f. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Vermont |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,141 px · prints to 18 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | East Pittsford Dam |
| Reference | VT East Pittsford Dam 1913 |
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