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Explore how Underhill has changed over the years

District 5 schoolhouse, Underhill Center
District 5 Schoolhouse, Underhill Center
District 15 Schoolhouse, the Mountain School,
located on the Mountain Road near the Halfway House. Operated in the 1860s.
Location of the third District 1 Schoolhouse, the Morse school, on Poker Hill. The first District 1 school was a log cabin built in 1787 and it operated in three different buildings until 1953.
District 7 Schoolhouse, the Governor’s Right school, located on Cilley Hill Road near the Rawson farm.
District 10 Schoolhouse, the Harvey school. Located on Pleasant Valley Road just north of Harvey Road. Used 1830 to 1911, later converted to a home, burned in 1985. Photo taken in 1970.
District 5 Schoolhouse, Underhill Center before the second story was added. Bridge over Brown’s River in foreground.
District 6 Schoolhouse, the Tyler Graves district, Route 15 near Gert’s Knob
District 3 Schoolhouse, Route 15 near Poker Hill Road
District 11 Schoolhouse, the Bogue school. Located on Pleasant Valley Road near Dean Road.
Underhill ID school, Underhill Flats, “decorated” by pranksters on Cabbage Night.
Site of District 2 schoolhouse, the Hill Road School. This was located on Poker Hill near the Birge Tavern. Built about 1797, it operated until 1930. It was sold for $300 in 1947 and moved about one mile to the Machia farm.
The location of the first District 1 School, the Morse school, on Poker Hill, 75 yards north of the third school building.
Site of the District 14 Schoolhouse, the Irish Settlement School, also known as the Forbush District. Located on the east side of Irish Settlement Road about 1.3 miles from the intersection of Sand Hill Road. In use 1858 to 1920.
Mt. Mansfield from what is today Valley’s Edge in Jericho. The Wheeler barn is seen on the left and below the “nose” can be seen the creamery on River Road.
Orville Wrisley home as seen from Poker Hill Road/Route 15 intersection about 1940
Earl Cross photo of unknown covered bridge.
Earl Cross automobile on snowy road.
The Esso Cruiser at Riverside Garage, intersection of Route 15 and River Road, late 1930s. This was a traveling theatre promoting Esso products, and was once used by Guy Lombardo.
Underhill Ski Jump, part of the winter sports facilities on the Underhill side of Mt. Mansfield, c1941.
Esso truck delivering fuel to Riverside Garage, 1940. Earl Cross car in left rear. Fuel measuring cans seen beside delivery man, used to check gas pump accuracy.
Hotel on top of Mt. Mansfield, early 1950s
Burlington & Lamoille train coming into Riverside from Jericho Corners,, mid-1930s
B&L freight train coming into Riverside from Jericho Corners, mid-1930s. The field in the foreground is today the location of Jolley’s store.
House at 37 River Road, Jericho, after a tree limb fell on the front porch, destroying it.
B&L railroad steel trestle over Lee River, Jericho Corners. This replaced the original long wooden trestle in 1924, with much of the length of that being replaced with fill. Heavier locomotives being used on the line required a stronger bridge. This appears to be just as the work was being completed, as parts of the former wooden trestle can still be seen.
Riverside filling station, at the intersection of Route 15 and River Road, 1930s.
Riverside filling station, late 1930s.
Riverside filling station, operated by Earl Cross, c 1940. On the right can be seen part of the lunch room and gas pumps operated by Frank Machia.
B&L freight train coming into Riverside from Jericho Corners, 1930s
Frank Simpson store, Park Street, Underhill Flats, late 1930s. The building was converted to apartments in 1965.
The Underhill Drug Store and Dr. Nay’s residence, Route 15, Riverside. The store was converted to apartments in the 1960s.
Route 15/River Road intersection in Riverside. Riverside Garage is seen on the right, and the former Howard Clark home is in the center distance. The field in the distance behind the Sunoco sign is the site of Jolley’s store today. Riverside Garage mostly sold Esso products, but apparently sold Sunoco for a time.
When off the tracks in north underhill going to cambridge in 1910 and was buried in the mud all that winter .IT was pulled out that next spring
District 6 schoolhouse, the Tyler Graves district. Route 15 near Gert’s Knob.
Sinclair Inn B&B, formerly the Hotel Sinclair. 389 Route 15 in Riverside.