Mansion_rev8.qxd - National Park Service

LIST OF FIGURES
cover The Billings family on the Mansion lawn, 1887. Billings Family Archives,
Woodstock, Vermont.
0.1 Location of the Mansion grounds in relation to the forest and Billings Farm &
Museum portions of Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park.
SUNY ESF.
0.2 Diagram of the major landscape features of the Mansion grounds. SUNY
ESF.
1.1 Physiographic subdivisions of Vermont. Reproduced from David Stewart,
The Glacial Geology of Vermont. Montpelier: Vermont Geological Survey
Bulletin No. 19, 1961.
1.2 Relative topography in Vermont, with elevations as recorded in 1842.
Zadock Thompson, History of Vermont, Natural, Civil, and Statistical
(Burlington, 1842).
1.3 Bedrock formations in the vicinity of the Mansion grounds. Detail, P. H.
Chang et al., "Geologic Map and Structure Sections of the Woodstock
Quadrangle, Vermont" (Montpelier, c.1965), annotated by SUNY ESF.
1.4 Common Vermont trees, as identified in the mid-ninteenth century. Zadock
Thompson, History of Vermont Natural, Civil, and Statistical (Burlington,
1842), compiled by SUNY ESF.
1.5 Nineteenth-century lithograph of an Abenaki petroglyph found in the West
River at Brattleboro. Zadock Thompson, History of Vermont Natural, Civil,
and Statistical (Burlington, 1842).
1.6 Ndakinna, the Western Abenaki homeland, showing general location of
major bands about 1600. Based on map in Colin Calloway, The Western
Abenakis of Vermont (Norman, 1990), 4-5. SUNY ESF.
1.7 Map of the Ottauquechee River floodplain and eastern foot of Mount Tom
showing natural features and clearing that existed prior to European settlement,
c.1765. SUNY ESF.
1.8 Mount Tom, an enduring part of the natural setting of the Mansion grounds,
looking east across the Ottauquechee River. From an 1860s photograph,
Woodstock Historical Society.
1.9 Map of the Ottauquechee floodplain and foot of Mount Tom at the time of
early European settlement, c.1789. SUNY ESF.
2.1 Engraving of a portrait of Charles Marsh (Senior) by Benjamin Franklin
Mason, c.1846. The portrait hangs in the Windsor County Courthouse,
Woodstock.
2.2 Photograph of Central Street in Woodstock looking south with the bare and
eroded slopes of Mount Peg in the background, 1867. Woodstock Historical
Society.
2.3 Asher B. Durand, “Autumn Landscape” (c.1847), a painting of the Hudson
River School acquired by Frederick Billings. Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller
National Historical Park.
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