BROWNINGTON, Vt. (AP) — With dozens of oxen leading the way, a historic schoolhouse has been relocated to the original spot where a prominent African-American scholar and legislator was once its schoolmaster.
For decades, the Orleans County Grammar School served as a Grange hall in Brownington, a hilltop village near the Canadian border. But town officials decided they wanted to move the 30-by-40-foot white clapboard-sided house a third of a mile up the road to restore the village's historic district to its 19th-century condition.
The 105-ton timber-frame school building was moved Monday up a hill by an engine on the back of a barge-like rolling platform that filled both lanes of the narrow country road.