Road pride in Vermont

Simpsonville Stone Arch Bridge, north of the village of Townshend, Vt., on Route 35.

“In Vermont no back road of any pride is content to have only one name. In the next town to me and its neighbors to the north, for example, Grassy Brook Road becomes Archie Jones Road, becomes Lower Road, becomes Route 35, becomes Weaver Brook Road, becomes Cambridgeport Road — all in the course of about 15 miles of the same throughfare.’’

— Castle Freeman Jr. (born 1944), of Newfane, Vt., in his article “Unimproved Roads,’’ in the March 1998 Yankee Magazine.

Newfane, Vt., in 1909. Upland pastures were for cows and sheep.