In 1933, the midst of the Great Depression, Col William J. Wilgus, former chief engineer of the New York Central Railroad, propose the construction of a scenic highway with a 1,000-foot right of way through the Green Mountains. Modeled after Virginia’s Skyline Drive in the Blue Ridge Mountains, the road was viewed, in historian Richard Judd’s words, “as an imaginative solution to the state’s apparent need for a big project which would employ many people, stimulate the Vermont economy, and confer lasting benefits on everyone concerned.”
For more information on this episode, please visit: https://vermonthistory.org/green-mountain-parkway-1933
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Episode 50: School Consolidation
Episode 49: The First Vermonters, the Abenaki
Episode 48: Act 250
Episode 47: Back to the Land: Communes in Vermont
Episode 46: The VT/NY Youth Project
Episode 45: The Aiken Formula
Episode 44: Dowsing in Danville
Episode 43: Democrats Rising
Episode 42: High Tech Comes to Vermont
Episode 42: Consuelo Northrop Bailey
Episode 39: The Case of Alex B. Novikoff
Episode 38: Maple Sugaring
Episode 37: Town Bands
Episode 36: Senator Ralph Flanders
Episode 35: Electricity Comes to Rural Vermont
Episode 34: World War II at Home
Episode 32: Fighting Silicosis, Dust Control in the Granite Industry
Episode 31: The OWLS, Vermont's Women Legislators
Episode 30: Legislative Reapportionment
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