A Spectral Story: Queen City Cotton Mill Ghost

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“Burlington’s Ghost.” From the Vermont Watchman, November 28, 1900.

Happy Halloween, or as the historic newspapers have it, happy Hallowe’en, from VTDNP!

Halloween is today, and thus, it’s appropriate to share a ghostly tale that captivated Burlingtonians at the turn of the twentieth-century at the Queen City Cotton Mill on Burlington’s waterfront. Dozens of people attested to witnessing the apparition of a recently-deceased mill worker, Marie Blais, around the premise of the property.

Marie was hit by a train in June of 1900 at the Lakeside railroad crossing, and was killed immediately.

By that fall, stories of the female mill ghost became prevalent–the lights of the trains would flicker when passing over where Marie was killed, and people attested to seeing visions of the girl near the railroad tracks and of her working at her old loom in the mill at night. Some even attested to hearing screams near the track. Continue reading A Spectral Story: Queen City Cotton Mill Ghost →

Resuming shipment to the Library of Congress

After a couple of weeks of shutdown, the government is operating again. While they were on hiatus, VTDNP continued to work on production and have gathered three batches (including two reworks) to be sent to the Library of Congress. They are on their way to DC now.

Furthermore, we have new content that will come out together with the next Chronicling America update. In the meantime, check out our newly-created FLICKR and PINTEREST account. Read and see more about it…

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Pelican cases containing external HDs containing VTDNP batch of digitized microfilms; posing before getting packed to be sent to the Library of Congress, post-Government-Shutdown.

News from the Library of Congress: October 1, 2013 (REVISED October 3, 2013)

Federal Government Shutdown

Due to the temporary shutdown of the federal government, all Library buildings are closed, all public events are canceled, and all inquiries and requests to the Library of Congress web-based services will not be received or responded to until the shutdown ends.

Information on loc.gov is not being updated.

Copyright.gov, THOMAS.gov and Congress.gov are all available.

A Note to loc.gov Users

Ahead of the temporary shutdown of the federal government, the Library alerted patrons that Library websites, except the legislative information sites THOMAS.gov and beta.congress.gov, would be inaccessible in the event of a shutdown.

 

The Library has restored access to all sites in addition to our legislative information sites. Other legislative branch agencies, and many executive branch agencies with informat!
ion functions similar to the Library, are granting public access as well.

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PR 13-A07
10/01/13
ISSN 0731-3527