Julia Smith Northrup's photos ~1943

QUIZ 2009

1. ORIGINALLY APPLETREE POINT WAS PART OF :
2. a. Benning Wentworth Grants
1. New Hampshire Land Grants
2. The Vermont Republic
3. all of the above
3. 1773, A LIKELY LOCATION OF FIRST CABIN ON APPLETREE POINT:
1. on the cliffs to watch sunsets
2. on the beach to be near swimming
3. on a high point of land near a perennial spring
4. near North Avenue on the trolley line
4. 1774, MANY EARLY SETTLERS FLED BECAUSE:
1. the winters were brutal
2. small pox ravaged the settlements
3. cut worms destroyed the corn harvest
4. the British launched invasion from Canada
5. FIRST DOCUMENTED PROPERTY OWNER ON APPLETREE POINT WAS:
1. Jabez Penniman
2. James Murdock
3. Samuel Averill
4. Daniel Ormsby
6. 1778, THE FIRST LAND DEED RECORDED RECOGNIZING THE AUTHORITY OF VERMONT – 5 ACRES OF CULTIVATED LAND AND A CABIN -- WAS SOLD BY:
1. Felix Powell
2. Thomas Chittenden
3. Ira Allen
4. Remember Baker
7. APPLETREE POINT LAND EXTENDED TO WINOOSKI RIVER AND NORTH AVE:
1. 100 acres
2. 200 acres
3. 300 acres
4. 400 acres
8. 1837, EARLIEST LARGE FARM OPERATOR ON APPLETREE POINT:
1. Rueben F. Staniford
2. A. Crocker
3. Samuel Averill
4. E.J.Fay
9. 1916, FAMILY OF 45^TH GOVERNOR OF VT, BOUGHT THE STANIFORD FARM:
1. Carroll S. Page
2. Urban A. Woodbury
3. Levi F. Fuller
4. Edward C. Smith
10. 1925, A HERD OF 125 prize GUERNSEY COWS WAS WIPED OUT BY:
1. blizzard
2. barn fire
3. mad cow disease
4. mosquitoes
11. c1928, GRAND PORTICO ON FARMHOUSE, BY MASTER ACRHITECT:
1. John G. French
2. James R. Law
3. Lewis Sheldon Newton
4. Diane Elliott Gayer
12. c1937, EARLY RESIDENT WHO BUILT A BOAT IN HIS BROOKLYN BACKYARD AND SAILED IT HERE:
1. Alex Straiton
2. George Miller
3. Victor Bergeron
4. Charles P. Smith
13. c1937, PROPRIETOR OF A QUARRY IN BARRE WHO BUILT A COTTAGE HERE:
1. Alex Straiton
2. George Miller
3. Victor Bergeron
4. Charles P. Smith
14. 1940, MORTENSENS SOLD APPLETREE POINT FARM TO DORA F. SMITH, AND STIPULATED THAT BUILDING FORMERLY USED AS A BARN NOT BE USED AS:
1. golf club house or race track
2. cemetery, funeral home, or crematorium
3. theater, restaurant, or nightclub
4. nuclear power plant
15. c1941, DR. OLIVER EASTMAN’S WIFE, ETHEL, ENCOURAGED HIM TO FARM:
1. so he would stay home more.
2. to contribute to the war effort through dairying.
3. to keep the children out of mischief.
4. as a tax scam.
16. DR. EASTMAS’S APPLETREE FARM JERSEY MILK WAS FAMOUS FOR:
1. high butterfat content
2. low butterfat content
3. maple sugar flavor
4. pale blue color
17. THE STANIFORD APPLETREE POINT FARM HOUSE IS SIGNIFICANT BECAUSE
1. the existing structure includes the original farmhouse
2. the portico was designed by a master architect
3. it is associated with Appletree Point’s farming history
4. all of the above
18. WHICH ONE OF THE FOLLOWING IS NOT A CRIETRIA FOR ELIGIBILITY ON NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES:
1. association with events significant to the broad patterns of history
2. structure more than 100 years old
3. association with the lives of persons significant in our past
4. distinctive work of a master architect
19. APPLETREE POINT STREAM, BEING TWO BRANCHES RUNNING SOUTH THROUGH APPLETREE POINT FARM TO LAKE CHAMPLAIN, IS:
1. a US tributary to Lake Champlain regulated by the Army Corps of Engineers
2. a stream governed by the Burlington Board of Health pesticide ordinance
3. part of a class II federally protected wetlands
4. all of the above
20. APPLETREE POINT FARM WAS ENTERED INTO THE STATE REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES BY:
1. Dora. Smith
2. George Harrington
3. Hannah Staniford
4. Hilton Wick
21. A NEW NAME FOR THE BURLINGTON CITY PARK ON APPLETREE POINT: