Pownal Station circa 1875
On September 9, 1875 at the Pownal, Vermont train station, two fugitives slipped aboard a train among a crowd of firemen returning from a muster in North Adams. Their hasty plans to leave behind their problems — and the scene of a crime — are the subject of the Colrain Historical Society’s program on June 13.
This forgotten story, researched and presented by the Catamount Hill Association’s historian, Prentice Crosier, will follow the Historical Society’s 7:00 o’clock business meeting at the Stacy Barn, 8 Main Road in Colrain Center.
The program is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.
Joseph Riley Farnsworth is buried in Colrain’s West Branch Cemetery. His distinctive zinc monument is easily found on the west side of the cemetery near Adamsville Road.
