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Barnard General Store
The Barnard General Store is a general store in Barnard, Vermont. The store first opened in 1832. It is considered the commercial and social center of the town. It has been in near-continuous operation since its opening, with only a brief closing in 2012–2013. The store is owned by the Barnard Community Trust, a resident-operated organization that leases the building's space to the store's business owner. The store is one of four historic landmarks notable to the Town of Barnard. Attributes The store serves a community of just under 1,000 people, in addition to tourists, second-home owners, and guests at the nearby Silver Lake State Park (Vermont), Silver Lake State Park. It is considered the commercial and social center of the town. The general store has produce, dry and canned groceries at the front of the store. Its deli, cafe, and ice cream counter, at the back of the store, prepares breakfasts and lunches. It is the only grocery store in Barnard. The general store p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barnard, Vermont
Barnard is a town in Windsor County, Vermont. The population was 992 at the 2020 census. The town has two unincorporated villages: Barnard and East Barnard, along with the hamlets of Newcombsville, Mountain Meadows, and Fort Defiance.https://www.trorc.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Barnard_TP_FINAL_8-24-2016-1.pdf History The town was chartered on July 17, 1761 by a New Hampshire Grant. It was named "Bernard" after one of the five grantees of the town, Sir Francis Bernard, 1st Baronet, who was governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay from 1760 to 1769. The town's name was changed to Barnard some time before 1810. In 1928, Nobel Prize–winning novelist Sinclair Lewis bought Connett Place with a total and adjacent Chase Farm. He named the property Twin Farms and used it as a vacation house during the 1930s and 1940s with his wife Dorothy Thompson. In 1941, German playwright Carl Zuckmayer, a refugee from Nazi Germany whom Dorothy Thompson had helped to get into the U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |