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Creating an Image 1910 - 1940
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September 8, 1910
Nineteen-year-old George Schmitt of Rutland became the first Vermonter to make an engine-powered airplane flight.
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September 15, 1910
Charles Willard flew an airplane for six minutes in St. Johsbury. The plane was brought by train from Boston to the Caledonia County Fairgrounds.
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January 7, 1913
Important child labor laws are passed by the U.S. government. They limit the work week of children to fifty-eight hours. Photographs taken of children working even longer hours at woolen mills in Winooski and Bennington help convince people that these laws are needed.
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April 21, 1920
Four hundred women gather in Montpelier, in the pouring rain, in support of the nineteenth amendment giving women the right to vote.
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January 5, 1921
Edna Beard of Orange became Vermont's first woman legislator. There has never been a legislative session since without a woman member.
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September 4, 1922
WLAK, Vermont's first radio station, began broadcasting in Bellows Falls. Charles Doe, the announcer, was on the air six hours a day, with weather, farming tips, and piano and gramophone music.
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August 3, 1923
At his family home at Plymouth, vice-president Calvin Coolidge was awakened in the night and sworn in as the thirtieth president of the United States, after president Warren G. Harding died. His father, John Coolidge, a notary public, administered the oath of office.
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October 10, 1924
Vermont's first radio broadcast was made by WCAX from Burlington, Vermont.
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July 27, 1927
Charles Lindbergh, the first person to make a solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean from New York to Paris, visited Vermont's first airfield and flying school in Springfield.
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November 4, 1927
Vermont experienced the worst flood in its history. Over 9 inches of rain fell in two days causing rivers, fields and roads to flood.
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August 23, 1932
The airplane, The Green Mountain Boy, took off from Berlin, Vermont, for Norway and disappeared without a trace.
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June 5, 1933
The first Civilian Conservation Corps (C.C.C.) in Vermont started work in Danby. The C.C.C. put unemployed men between the ages of eighteen and twenty-three to work on projects in the nation's forests and rural areas.
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December 30, 1933
The temperature in Bloomfield, Vermont, dropped to fifty degrees below zero. This still stands as the lowest official temperature ever recorded in the state.
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January 22, 1934
The first ski tow in the United States was set up in Woodstock, Vermont. The tow was powered by a Model T Ford engine which pulled the 900 yards of rope at a speed of thirty miles per hour. The first ticket for the rope tow was sold on January 28th.
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March 7, 1935
Amelia Earhart, who later became the first woman to make a solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean, speaks to the legislature on the future of the airplane.
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March 3, 1936
Voters on Town Meeting Day vote against building the Green Mountain Parkway, a highway to connect the peaks of the Green Mountains.
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September 21, 1938
A terrible hurricane caused the deaths of five Vermonters and cost more than twelve million dollars in damage.
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