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Stowe is a town in Lamoille County, Vermont, United States.The population was 5,223 at the 2020 census. [4] The town lies on Vermont Routes 108 and 100.It is nicknamed "The Ski Capital of the East" and is home to Stowe Mountain Resort, a ski facility with terrain on Mount Mansfield, the highest peak in Vermont, and Spruce Peak.
0618236. Website. www.stow-ma.gov. Stow is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The town is located 21 miles (34 km) west of Boston, in the MetroWest region of Massachusetts. The population was 7,174 at the 2020 census. [1] Stow was officially incorporated in 1683 with an area of approximately 40 square miles (100 km 2).
Stowe Mountain Resort is a ski resort in the northeastern United States, near the town of Stowe in northern Vermont, comprising two separate mountains: Mount Mansfield and Spruce Peak. The lift-served vertical drop of Mount Mansfield is 2,360 feet (719 m), the fifth largest in New England and the fourth largest in Vermont.
Roland Palmedo. Roland Palmedo (April 5, 1895 – March 15, 1977) was a pioneering developer of recreational skiing in the United States. He founded the Mount Mansfield Lift Company which built Stowe 's first chairlift, and created the Mad River Glen ski area. Roland Palmedo was also instrumental in the establishment of the National Ski Patrol ...
John Stow (also Stowe; 1524/25 – 5 April 1605) was an English historian and antiquarian. He wrote a series of chronicles of English history , published from 1565 onwards under such titles as The Summarie of Englyshe Chronicles , The Chronicles of England , and The Annales of England ; and also A Survey of London (1598; second edition 1603).
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe.Published in two volumes in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S., and is said to have "helped lay the groundwork for the [American] Civil War".
1955: Helen Day Montanari died and left a trust fund in the care of her friend, Dr. Marguerite Lichtenthaeler. The two women shared a dream of a new library and art center for Stowe; 1974: Stowe High School moved into its new quarters on the Barrows Road. The village school, colloquially known as "Old Yeller", was left vacant
The Stowe Village Historic District encompasses most of the village center of Stowe, Vermont. Since the 19th century, the village has been one of Vermont's major resort centers, and its center is architecturally reflective of this history. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.