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...amazed when you see Whitingham Farms for yourself with its lovely common greenery offering complete off-road privacy and rusticity to each homesite. The community parks, beaches, recreational and shopping areas, and covered bridges are all designed for the epitome in private use and landscape protection...
Right now, Whitingham Farms is merely a 2,096-acre tract of hilly countryside in Windham County in the extreme southeastern corner of Vermont. There is little to be amazed about-except the beauty of the area. The air is clean and fresh; the lakes and streams are full of trout and bass. A sharp-eyed visitor might glimpse deer flashing through the woods, or a fox, raccoon, bobcat or woodchuck. Man's hand has not yet transformed the landscape. Just three of a projected 1,735 houses have been built, and most of the promised amenities are visible...
Unfortunately, the brochure epitomizes the unfolding fate of unguarded land in Vermont-and much of the U.S. as well. If Whitingham Developer Clifford Jarvis sells 300 lots, he will recoup his initial investment of $1.5 million. He has a lot to do-building those covered bridges, for example, and draining a pond now full of beaver ("We'll have to kill them"). When his work is finished, says Jarvis, "I personally have no intention of staying in Vermont...
Another attraction of the erstwhile narrow-gauge line is the switchback at Whitingham Dam, reputed to be the only one east of the Rockies, constructed when the dam (largest earth dam in the world) forced rebuilding of much of the roadbed...
...enclosed marker is placed on the spot where B. Young's house stood and his birthplace. It is in the town of Whitingham, Vt. This town is in the southern part of Vermont...