St Johnsbury, Vermont

Many New Englanders are used to seeing huge 18-wheel tractor-trailer rigs emblazoned with "St Johnsbury" on New England highways.

The town's famous trucking company spread the name, but it was certainly the Fairbanks family, grown wealthy on the manufacture and sales of weighing scales, that brought a cosmopolitan ambience to the town.

The St Johnsbury Athenaeum (tel 802-748-8291), 1171 Main Street, is a combination library and art gallery founded in 1871 as a gift from Horace Fairbanks.

Nearby at 1302 Main Street, the Fairbanks Museum of Natural Science was a gift (1891) of Franklin Fairbanks, who collected many of the museum's exhibits himself.

For more information:

Northeast Kingdom Chamber of Commerce
51 Depot Square, Suite 3,
St Johnsbury VT 05819
Tel: 802-748-3678, 800-639-6379
nekinfo@nekchamber.com)

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