Hearing resumes on renaming Negro Brook
Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. TOWNSHEND â A new name is being proposed for Negro Brook, which flows down Bald Mountain in Townshend State Park. At a remote meeting at 10 a.m. Thursday, the Vermont Board of Libraries will be resuming a public hearing on renaming it Susanna Toby Brook, after an early Black settler and longtime resident of Townshend who died in 1855 and whose husband fought in the Revolutionary War in place of his slaveholderâs son. Log-in information can be found at libraries.vermont.gov/about_us/board. West River Mutual Aid and the West River ...
Source: reformer.com