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 Mountain" is today called Wantastiquet.

Was the 1775 "loud noise" the same as the one heard and felt in Chesterfield in May 2024?

Dave Allen  Old Maps

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*There was no Vermont in 1779, the left (west) side of this map was New York in 1779. The map is "Chorographical Map of  The Province of New-York".
** Travels in New England and New York.. Timothy Dwight 1821 , Vol II, p29



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