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Photograph of the Knoll Motel, 1015 North Main St, Barre, Vermont. The postcard has the date 9/13/1966 written on it. The image depicts a boxy, pale salmon-colored L-shaped motel set back from the road surrounded by a green lawn, trees, and hillside.…

Black and white photograph of LeMay's Motel and Cabins, on US Route 302 in Barre, Vermont. The Motel is built into the hill, with the photograph drawing attention to a section with the office. There are lawn chairs and shiny spherical garden…

Black and white photograph with sepia tone shows five individual cabins at the Traveler's Rest Motel, labelled as Montpelier, Vermont, but were actually located on the Barre-Montpelier Road in the town of Berlin. Outside of each structure there is a…

Black and white photograph with sepia tone shows The Traveler's Rest Motel. Interestingly, while this photo is labeled as Barre, Vermont, the building is actually located in Berlin; Barre was merely the mailing address. The Barre-Montpelier Road runs…

Black and white photograph of the Twin City Motel cabins 1537 US Route 302, Berlin, Vermont. A larger cabin with a sign reading, "Cabins Open," (seemingly the office,) is set in front of a row of ten smaller cabins for rent. There may be more cabins…

This is how the stretch of Route 302 looking south towards Barre, near what is currently Cody Chevrolet (2021) in Montpelier, Vermont, looked like after electric lines were installed but before the road was paved. One can see undeveloped land with…

A monument to Daniel P. Thompson (1795-1868), author of The Green Mountain Boys and other works, was dedicated by the DAR on May 25, 1929. Dorman B.E. Kent (1875-1951), librarian of the Vermont Historical Society, gave an address and stands at the…

Walker Motors was a Ford Dealership at 265 River Street in Montpelier, Vermont, from 1953 until 2009. This postcard shows the new 1957 Fords and a bright red Texaco star outside of the dealership

Color postcard of the Howard Johnson's restaurant on Route 302 in Berlin, Vermont. The image shows the restaurant with its famous cupula and two blue cars parked alongside. This view includes an ornate sign advertising the restaurant, "ice cream,…

Color postcard of The Wayside Restaurant on Route 302 in Berlin, Vermont. The photograph features wood siding on the left side of the restaurant, large windows, the Wayside lettering on the brick chimney, along with an empty parking lot and trees on…

Aerial photo of the Barre-Montpelier Road showing the old Twin City Drive-in Theater, ca 1948. A shopping center opened at the site of the drive-in in May of 1949. Across from the drive-in is Traveler's Rest Cabins with a big cement building in the…

The City of Barre as seen from the air. North Main and Elm Streets, stretching from Maple Avenue to City Hall Park and beyond. This photograph was taken before Urban Renewal changed several blocks in the lower portion of the photograph.