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Map 1.  Detail of Official Vermont Road Map & Guide to Vermont Attractions, published by the Vermont Attractions Association, May 2007.

Map 2.  Same Detail of Official Vermont Road Map & Guide to Vermont Attractions, showing the extent of my meanderings on these trips.

Map 3.  1897 USGS topographical map of the Lake Bomoseen-Castleton area.   A wonderful map.  (Evidently this was the base map used by T. N. Dale, et al., in their 1914 maps of the VT-NY slate districts.)  The full series available online (and offsite) from the University of New Hampshire Library, at http://docs.unh.edu/nhtopos/nhtopos.htm

Map 4.  Detail of 1897 topographical map of West Castleton & Cedar Mountain, annotated to show various locales relevant to these pages.

Map 5.  West Castleton Railroad and Slate Company Map of West Castleton, 1869.  Copy from "Monitoring the Reconstruction of Glen Lake Dam of Bomoseen State Park, Castleton, Vermont," State Dept of Natural Forests, Parks & Recreation, Feb 1992, p. 8  (see also photo no. 41b).

 1854 Rutland County Map

Map 6.  "A complete copy of the 1854 county may showing the names and locations of 1000s of houses, businesses, churches and schools" - pdf file, © Old Maps, West Chesterfield NH  (.pdf file, 98 MB, 60 pgs)

Map 7.  "Quarry Map Showing the Location and Size of the More Important Slate Quarries in the 'Unfading Green' Slate Belt between Poultney and West Castleton, Vermont, and a few of the 'Sea-Green' Slate Quarries near Poultney."  Plate 21 in T. N. Dale, et al., Slate in the United States (1914; continued in Map 8, below; each image 15 MB).

Map 8.  "Quarry Map Showing the Location and Size of the More Important Slate Quarries in the 'Unfading Green' Slate Belt between Poultney and West Castleton, Vermont, and a few of the 'Sea-Green' Slate Quarries near Poultney."  Plate 21 in T. N. Dale, et al., Slate in the United States (1914; continuation of Map 7, above; each image 15 MB).

Map 9.  "Quarry Map Showing the Location and Size of the Quarries of 'Sea-Green,' Purple, and Red Slate in the Towns of Hampton and Granville, New York, and Poultney and Pawlet, Vermont, and the Geology of the Vicinity."  Plate 20 in T. N. Dale, et al., Slate in the United States (1914; continued in Map 10, below; each image 5 MB).

Map 10.   "Quarry Map Showing the Location and Size of the Quarries of 'Sea-Green,' Purple, and Red Slate in the Towns of Hampton and Granville, New York, and Poultney and Pawlet, Vermont, and the Geology of the Vicinity."  Plate 20 in T. N. Dale, et al., Slate in the United States (1914; continuation from Map 9, above; each image 5 MB).