The Vail Farm Diaries - Various (247)

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Vail Museum

Name/Title

The Vail Farm Diaries - Various (247)

Entry/Object ID

2012.031.

Scope and Content

Diaries – Vail Farm Diaries 1886,1887,1888,1889. The accounts of the Harris Farms known as “The Mall” – and also the records in conjunction with the Vail-Harris Farming agreement on the Vail farm. An account of the daily chores, planting dates, haying, horse breeding, etc. Most of the notes are inscribed by Irving Powers, manager of the two farms and later president of the Lyndon Creamery and the Lyndonville Savings Bank; he lived in the Pettigrew/Powers/Watson/Boera home on the park in Lyndonville and donated the land for Powers Park and an endowment for its maintenance. Bookplate in 1886 Diary notes that the civil-minded town benefactor who owned The Mall is “L.B.Harris, 1847-1913, Civil War Veteran, Connoisseur, Gentleman…Lyndon Center, VT.” Mr. Harris was the founder of the Lyndonville Savings Bank and donated the Donatelli Lions and the Boar statute to his community, presented by Elizabeth Harris Brown, 1976.

Cataloged By

Betty Beattie Bolevic & Maxine Gray Aldrich

Provenance

Provenance Detail

Elizabeth Harris Brown