?A Vermont Street in Mt. Horeb?
?The following email letter from Bonita Guarino was recently sent to Society President, Brian Bigler.
Hi Brian
I am writing again as I am still searching for Vermont St. It is obvious that you have done an outstanding job of organizing the historical society and gathering information. I hope someday you will accept all my genealogy work for most of Mt. Horeb, along with pictures of my relatives who lived in the Vermont area. Also, my brother would like to donate all his military stuff from Vietnam someday.
But back to my problem, in the 1930 census I can account for all the streets except Vermont St. You referred me to another person but I have lost that name and e-mail. I am wondering now if the alley between Grove and Washington Streets could once have been a street called Vermont. As you read the 1930 census it starts out by the UNION cemetery and goes across town at all the numbered streets until you get to Washington and then Vermont but then back to Thompson street. I am sorry to be such a bother but it is a small piece of my family history that we cannot understand.
To answer Bonita’s question Brian and Museum Director, Laurie Boyden first turned to the Museums stored collections for clues. There, on a large framed 1904 map of Mt Horeb they found it. On the far northern edge of the map was Vermont Street and next to it the name it would thereafter become – Oakridge Street. Another mystery was solved.
