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The landscape is filled with cultivated fields and pastureland with a brief glimpse of the Missisquoi River. Trail users must temporarily detour onto VT 105 to cross the river.
Follow the green and white highway signs to make the connections
to from Severance Road and the Trail. The trail end near mile marker 9 is easy to miss on your first trip.
The Civil War Invades Vermont -- On October 19, 1864, Confederate agents dressed in civilian clothes robbed three banks in St. Albans. Their take was $200,000. On stolen horses, they fled across the border to Montreal. The Canadian government arrested the raiders and returned the money, but their actions did not calm the fears or reduce the anger of the northern states. American troops were ordered to pursue the raiders into Canada and wipe them out. This would have violated Canadian neutrality and possibly started a war. President Lincoln revoked the order, realizing that a Canadian American conflict would only serve to help the south. A plaque on the VT 105 bridge marks the Raid's place in Vermont history.
Devyn's Quick Stop on VT 105 makes deli sandwiches and sells convenience items and creemees, offers water for filling
bottles, and permits trail users to use its picnic table.
Top Cat Motorsports on VT 105 repairs snowmobiles, offers water for filling
bottles, and makes its restrooms available to Trail users.
Sign images are from the Manual of Traffic Signs by Richard C. Moeur.
Copied by Kenyon F.
Karl <Webmaster@new-england-rail-trails.org>
from the 1999 edition using scanner & OCR software.
Unintentional errors are likely!
