Historic Markers - 'Snowflake' Bentley--Jericho's world famous snowflake authority VT11

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'Snowflake' Bentley--Jericho's world famous snowflake authority VT11

Picture Courtesy of Jimmy Emerson

For fifty years, Wilson A. Bentley, a farmer and self taught scientist, developed his technique of photo-micrography to reveal to the world the grandeur and mystery of the snowflake---it's universal hexagonal shape and its infinite number of lovely designs.

Vermont Division for Historic Preservation--2003

Town green in Jericho Center, Chittenden County Vermont


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