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March into Woodstock, Vt., history.(Travel)
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The Boston Herald
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February 29, 2004
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- Herald), Marisa Guthrie (Special To The
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Byline: Marisa Guthrie (SPECIAL TO THE HERALD)
WOODSTOCK, Vt. - When you think of this town, you probably think of a place to enjoy a pretty country setting.
You might think of the Rockefellers, who (like many others since) came here to escape the hectic pace of city life, and left the 555-acre Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historic Park as their legacy. You probably don't think of black history.
But this town has a number of sites associated with the Underground Railroad, abolition, the Civil War and more.
In fact, Woodstock was one of the most important Civil War communities in Vermont, which had freed slaves in 1777, 91 years before passage of the ...