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They Buried Her House, Not Her Name: The Oak Beneath the Field
They Buried Her House, Not Her Name: The Oak Beneath the Field
A buried oak foundation lay eighteen inches down under a flat Vermont field plowed for generations, its articulated timbers answering probe rods with a single clean knock-yet no record named the woman who lived there for twenty-three years. How did a house vanish from the legal record while its lower foundation stayed in the ground, and why did a community keep that patch of land empty for over two centuries?
In this episode, we follow the discovery in May 2019 and the archival trail that reaches back to 1811, tracing probate…
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