0.57 Acres in Pownal, VT - $199,000
OPTICAL ILLUSION- IT IS MUCH BIGGER THAN IT LOOKS. HOBBY BUILDERS' DREAM RENOVATION PROJECT. PRICING PER SQUARE FOOT IS LOW, LOW, LOW.... Currently 3 bedrooms with bath and a half, large living room with wood burning fireplace. The entire second story is just plumbed and configured for more bedrooms, but bring your HAMMER AND TOOLKIT to complete the job. HANDYMAN'S DELIGHT with privacy for the owner as the home sits back from the traffic (great for kids and dogs) with large front yard and back. The home once had a two car garage that was converted into a large family room. Plenty of room to build another garage on the 1/2 acres lot.
A little information about the town of Pownal, Vt. Pownall citizens have long prided themselves on their independent spirit. In 1789, a touring minister, the Rev. Nathan Perkins, described the town this way: . . . Pawnal ye first town, poor land ve...
A little information about the town of Pownal, Vt. Pownall citizens have long prided themselves on their independent spirit. In 1789, a touring minister, the Rev. Nathan Perkins, described the town this way: . . . Pawnal ye first town, poor land very unpleasant very uneven miserable set of inhabitants no religion, Rhode Island haters of religion Baptists, quakers, & some Presbyterians no meeting house.
Today Pownal has five churches. The Pownal Center Community Church was organized in 1794 as the Union Church, serving both Baptists and Methodists, and open to any denomination. The first church was a log structure. It was replaced in 1849 by the present church, jointly owned by the town and church.
Addie Card, child laborer, from a 1910 photograph by Lewis HineBoth cotton mills and woolen mills operated during the 19th-century. The wool industry reached its peak between 1820 and 1840, though farmers continued to raise sheep until the 20th-century.[5] On the Hoosic River in North Pownal, an 18th-century gristmill was replaced by a woolen mill that operated from 1849 until 1863, when it burned. The Plunkett & Baker Co. Mill, built in 1866, served as a cotton mill until 1930, becoming a tannery in 1937. It closed in 1988. Remediated as a superfund site, the mill site is planned to become a recreation area.
During the early part of the 20th Century, Lewis Hine documented child labor in the mills. His photograph of twelve-year old Addie Card, entitled Anemic Little Spinner in North Pownal Cotton Mill, North Pownal, Vermont, August 1910, was featured on the U.S. stamp commemorating the passage of the first child labor laws (see the Keating-Owen Act). Elizabeth Winthrop has written a novel, Counting on Grace, inspired by Addies photograph and life.
An electric railroad came to Pownal on June 7, 1907, and linked Pownal to The Berkshires and to Bennington. The brick power station still stands along Route 7. Schools were built in locations to which children could easily walk, and at one point Pownal had 11 schools, with four men and eleven women teaching in them. Two presidents of the United States once taught in North Pownal: James Garfield and Chester A. Arthur. Some children who attended high school in Bennington commuted on the electric railroad. Others rode wagons or horses to their schools. For more information about the Pownal Vt location see Wikipedia.
