Montpelier High School - Record Yearbook (Montpelier, VT)

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The State House glistens in the morning sun. '‘The Castle ' looms over State Street Brick buildings beautify Main Street.

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A Capital City j«S ENTERING City of Montpelier Capital of Vermont t With only 8,600 citizens, Montpelier ranks as the seventh smallest state capital in the nation. A town charter was granted to Mont- pelier in 1781, but it was not until ten years later that there were enough peo pie to tell that a community existed, with a grand population of 113. This was the year that Vermont was admitted into the Union. A short time later, in 1805. Mont- pelier became the state capital by virtue of its central location and the generosity of local businessmen, who literally out- bid other towns for the privilege: the first statehouse, a wooden building, cost them $9,000 Brick buildings now line the down- town streets to prevent a recurrence of the great fire of 1875, which devastated the majority of the stately wooden edi- fices that made up the downtown area. The great flood of 1927, which brought waters as high as 12 feet, also threatened to destroy Montpelier. Both times Mont- pelier rebuilt with pride. Proud of Montpelier's heritage and citizens, city fathers immortalized its local heroes with such place names as Hub- bard Park, Kellogg-Hubbard Library, and Langdon Street. Visitors are beckoned by the sign on 1-89. A student walks up Court Street to school. The mural painted by Albert Burdett. Chris Krahn, Jason Mallery, Camilla Schamaun. Gordon Spillman and Christine Sumner is located on the back of Capitol Stationers 2

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To Live Being a child in a community like Montpelier meant many things. It meant walking in the street to get around tour- ists who gazed in awe at the golden dome when the golden arches were more likely to be on one s mind. It meant getting to the Farmers' Market to eat the best ap- ples around or to choose that huge pumpkin that would soon be a scary jack-o-lantem. It meant watching the community turn out for a cross country race. It meant getting on Dad's shoulders to see the Fourth of July parade because the whole town had turned out to watch. It meant spending all summer at the rec pool striving to be promoted from strug- gling tadpoles to superb swimmers. Runners race through the outskirts of Montpelier The tourists descend on Montpelier from May through October A modem Adam and Eve search for the right apple. 4