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Santa's Land, Putney, VT: 2018 Preservation Trust of Vermont Award Winner
2018 Preservation Trust of Vermont Award Winner
Santa's Land, Putney, VT
Vermont is full of parks and places for thrill-seeking adventurers of all kinds.
There is one historic place whose 60-year run as a delightful site for generations of family fun came treacherously close to shuttering forever.
Founded in 1957 by Jack Poppele, and later operated by the Brewer Family, Santa’s Land on Route 5 in Putney enchanted children and families for more than 50 years before falling into disrepair. Left vacant for three years, it was eventually put on the market.
Considering its condition, the park could easily have been wiped away by a purchaser hoping to redevelop the large property.
But thanks to magician and auction house co-owner David Haversat, of Oxford, Connecticut, that was not to be. Haversat had grown up visiting the southern Vermont attraction, dreaming of owning it someday. In 2017, he finally got his wish.
Haversat soon began making trips between his Connecticut home and Putney with a car stocked full of cleaning supplies and repair materials, with the goal of creating a new positive chapter in the history of the property.
After working tirelessly with his family members and local contractors to address both the aging and neglected structures as well as extensive vandalism, the park finally opened to the public again for the holiday season in 2017.
Haversat continues to work on the restoration of the many original attractions and quirky buildings portraying fairy book places and characters from the world of the North Pole. Located in a grove of evergreens on 42 acres, the park features a train ride, holiday dioramas with animatronic figures, painted cottages, a kiddie slide, toddler car rides and a historic 32-horse carousel brought in from the famous Astroland in Coney Island.
To many who have loved the place over the decades, the re-opening was a thrill only matched by the delight of children seeing it for the first time.
Thanks to David Haversat, this chapter’s storybook ending at Santa’s Land is only the beginning.
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Santa's Land reopens in Putney Vermont.
Santa's Land in Putney Vermont. Reopened after three years November 25 2017. David Haversat, of Oxford, Connecticut, and family have done an amazing job restoring this New England treasure when Dave acquired the property. The entrance has a new gateway to Santa's Land which is sure to please. In the center of the park is a three row Allen Herschell Carousel. Three new kids rides have replaced the previous ones. The Chance train is running with plans for a new decorated tunnel for 2018. New paint and construction can be seen through out the park. Visitors are greeted with a park map after leaving the entrance and a new Santa Claus that has replaced the Humpty Dumpty that was vandalized beyond repair. The future looks bright for the generations of children who will be able to visit like their parents and grandparents did when they were children.
Santas Land - Putney, VT 1972
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This was taken from 8mm home movies shot in 1972 on a visit to Santa's Land in Putney, VT. Included is the petting zoo, train ride and slide.
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Vermont's Green Mountain Parkway
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BACKGROUND: Vermont’s expanding tourist sector received support from the Works Progress Administration throughout the Depression years. In southern Vermont that meant the completion of routes 9 and 7. Various state parks and airports were also upgraded. The first ski tow rope in the country started operating in Woodstock in 1934, with George Aiken, then Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives, in attendance.
All this sparked the expansion of seasonal employment in the commercial ski industry. Ski trails gradually crisscrossed the state, and wealthy visitors bought farms abandoned by those who could longer make a living on the land.
One business-backed project did hit a snag, however, a proposed Green Mountain Parkway along the ridge of the famous mountain range. Among the parkway's main boosters was James Paddock Taylor, Executive Secretary of the Vermont Chamber of Commerce, who envisioned a beautiful, 260-mile ribbon of road extending from Canada to Massachusetts. Washington DC wanted it, and, according to Taylor and other influentials, so would most Vermonters once they understood the benefits.
A major selling point was that construction would create jobs for some of the 16,000 Vermonters out of work. All the road’s backers needed was legislative approval of half a million dollars to purchase rights of way.
For Taylor and others who wanted the state to be more like the rest of the country, the parkway was viewed as a progressive initiative. It would create a new and modern state of mind. “The Parkway is a part of that program to get Vermont out of her valley-mindedness into the big view of things which should be expected from a mountain people,” Taylor wrote.
But many residents were suspicious, especially of President Roosevelt and his New Deal. They didn’t like the idea that the federal government would take control of 50,000 acres of land along the ridge of the state’s main mountain range, and preferred to see any extra money go toward fixing existing roads and bridges. Many feared that a nationally-controlled parkway would literally cut the state in half.
The Burlington Free Press thought it was a fine idea. “If our Washington Santa Claus wants to send us up ten millions to build a road over the side of our old Green Mountains, let’s graciously accept it and put the boys to work,” the paper chirped in a March 1935 editorial. But other papers, notably The Rutland Herald, weren’t convinced about the potential benefits. “The parkway would take tourists out of the valleys, where we can sell things to them, into the hills, where we can’t,” the Herald predicted. Half a million dollars was too much to borrow, an editorial added, and “a wilderness area now rich in game will be spoiled for hikes, sportsmen, horseback riders…”
On March 3, 1936 the decision was put before the people in a statewide referendum. Actually, the legislature was just asking voters to choose between two start dates – April 1, 1936 or five years later. But most people understood it was probably now or never.
When the votes were counted a convincing majority had rejected the federal government’s $18 million offer. There was strong support for the road in northern counties – Chittenden, Franklin, Grand Isle, Lamoille, and Washington – but it was roundly rejected in the south. As some opponents put it, they simply didn’t want the national government to become a large property owner and regulator of land in Vermont. The final vote was 31,101 in favor and 43,176 opposed.
“Well, the people have expressed their opinion in no uncertain terms,” huffed the Burlington Free Press. “So that’s that.”
Was the decision enlightened or selfish, provincial or progressive, conservative or radical? It is difficult to categorize. Nevertheless, Vermonters had spoken, using their unique form of grassroots democracy – Town Meeting.
At late as 1960, the National Park Service was still recommending the Green Mountain Parkway as part of an Appalachian Parkway system, but nothing came of it. University of Vermont political science professor Frank Bryan has argued that its defeat in 1936 was “the most democratic expression of environmental consciousness in American history, mythic in its defiance and radical in its implications – a Vermont that is green and rebellious.”
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