Then Again: Vermont’s Statehouse rose from ashes

A photograph from the late 1840s or early 1850s shows the second Vermont Statehouse rising behind a group of men sitting outside a house on Court Street, then Montpelier’s principal east-west road. Courtesy of the Vermont Historical Society
Editor’s note: Mark Bushnell is a Vermont journalist and historian. He is the author of “Hidden History of Vermont” and “It Happened in Vermont.”For Vermont’s first 30 years of existence, its government was distinctly