Ann Story Homestead, Farmingdale Cemetery, and Ethan Allen Cave!

Heading down the road to the Story Homestead!

This 1700's cabin was moved from Addison to the Story site

for our country's bicentennial in 1976.  The original cabin 

disappeared long ago, but a marker was placed at this site.

However, this cabin (which was similar to the Story's cabin) fell 

into disrepair and in August 2004, was destroyed by arson.   

http://www.annstorydar.org/our-history.html

This is what the site looks like now.

This scene is similar to what the Story family must 

have come upon after Indians torched their cabin.   

Monument at the story site reads:

"On this spot stood the home of Ann Story. In grateful 

memory of her service in the struggle of the Green Mountain 

Boys for the Independence of Vermont.  Erected by the 

Vermont Society of Colonial Dames.  May 30, 1905"

https://www.flickr.com/photos/donshall/3319767132

The story family hid in a cave that was dug into the side of the Otter Creek.

It measured approximately 4 feet high, 6 to 8 feet wide, and 12 feet deep.

There is a marker along the side of the Otter Creek marking this site.  It is

accessible only by water.  Carter was there some years back!

Next Stop, Farmingdale Cemetery - where Ann Story is buried.

Students search for Ann Story's gravestone.

"Here it is!"

Just down the road from the cemetery is the

marker on Three Mile Bridge Road where 

Benjamin Smalley built his family's home in 1772.

Finally, the hike to Ethan Allen Cave.

Lily takes a sharp left turn :-)

Ethan Allen Cave!
This is not a true cave, but an enormous triangular, metamorphic 
erratic (a rock that differs from others around it) with a large cleft 
(split) at the base of a massive boulder.  These rocks are believed
to be moved through glacial action.  Inscribed on the rock:
“The Cave of the Green Mountain Boys in whose honor this stone 
is marked by Lake Dunmore Chapter DAR of Brandon 1906.”

https://www.tripadvisor.co.nz/LocationPhotoDirectLink-g57389-d2371592

-i148062989-Branbury_State_Park-Salisbury_Vermont.html

The story is that Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys

stayed near or in this cave as they traveled through this way.

Lunch time!

No lunch for Kristi - she's busy teaching about caddisflies, frogs,

and oh, so much more!!!  Thanks Kristi the Naturalist!

Ethan Allen Cave window photos!

Fun by the stream.

What kid doesn't love to hang out by a fast flowing stream?

Adults like it, too!  For a different reason!

Calm, Calm, Calm!

Getting ready to head back to school!