Name/Title
StereographEntry/Object ID
2023.055.3.0203Description
A black and white stereograph. Image is of a body of water surrounded by trees. Above the image "T65 (Star)" is printed, below the image "W32574T Picturesque New England - Otter Creek, Near Rutland. Vermont." is printed, to the left of the image "Keystone View Company Copyrighted. Underwood & Underwood Inc. Manufacturers MADE IN U.S.A. Publishers" is printed, to the right of the image "Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England." is printed. On the reverse the following is printed:
W32574
OTTER CREEK, NEAR RUTLAND, VERMONT
Vermont, "the Green Mountain state," long ago gained its popular name form its picturesque ranges of mountains, sweeping form south to north in long billows with rounded, gently-sloping summits clothed form base to top in dark masses of forest or sunny, wind-swept reaches of pasture land. But the valleys of Vermont are, in their way, quite as lovely as its more renowned highlands. Though the latter, perhaps, furnished the chief attractions to the visitors who come every year in increasing numbers to spend their summers in the state and to added to the revenues of its permanent residents, the feritle soil of many of the valleys provided for the peple living in them a more substantial and constant source of income. Typical of the charming scenery to be found in these pleasant valleys is the stretch of placid water in Otter Creek, upon whose margin we are now stanidng. Vermont has no really large rivers. Indeed Otter Creek and three ot watercourses of about equal volume which, like it, flow into Lake Champlain, are the only ones in the state that are navigable.
Rutland, lying on Otter Creek not far from where we now are, is the second city of the state in size. Yet its population is only about 15,000, for Vermont is small, with an area of less than 10,000 square miles and its 352,500 people are well distributed over its surface, mainly in agritucltural communities with little concentration in towns. It is well known as the leader among the states in production of marble and granite. But the importance of agriculture in the economy of the commonwealth is evidenced by the fact that it also leads them in production of maple sugar, while its dairy industry has attained such a standard of excellence that the per captia value of its dairy products exceeds that in any other state.
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