Mountain which appears to have been a Volcano - Brattleboro
This past Saturday (May 18, 2024) a minor earthquake was felt in the Brattleboro VT-Chesterfield NH area. That reminded me of the "volcano" reference on an old Vermont map I used in my Early Maps of Brattleboro booklet (Old Maps 2003) The 1779 Joseph Sauthier map of Vermont * shows a "mountain which appears to have been a volcano" on the Chesterfield / Hinsdale town line, across the Connecticut River from Brattleboro. What was that back in the day? Here's what Timothy Dwight wrote in his "Travels in New England" ** “In a journey, which I took in 1798, 1 visited Hinsdale for the purpose of examining West river mountain, reported many years since to have been in a very humble degree volcanic…. Twenty-three years before, the people of the neighbourhood were alarmed by a loud noise, proceeding from this mountain, and resembling the sound of cannon.” 23 years earlier would have been 1775, just before the Sauthier map was printed. The "West River ...