b'G azing across the fifty mile vista from the kitch- Indians to stop the encroaching English. This very spot en of Kidder Farm to the Green Mountains onwas an historic but unsung corner of the world.thehorizon,itseasytofeelembracedbythe storied history of this place. Theres an ineffable charmThough plans to create a town in this place had been in the vast, untarnished landscape where the magic ofongoing for thirty years, there was tumult in the coun-nature restores ones primal sense of belonging. tryside that held back its construction.During the de-cade of quiet that followed the English victory in the For thousands of years native peoples made their standFrench and Indian War, a charter was procured from along the river valley. Each spring, salmon and shadKing George III to settle a town and build a population swam up the Connecticut to spawn, each year Algon- in this land of bounty. It was named for Robert Walpo-quins pitched their fishing encampments.Petroglyphsle, the longest seated British Prime Minister in histo-carved into rock 5000 years ago tell the story of thosery.With Benjamin Bellows as its leader, a group of 67 who came to the Great Basin where fish were so plen- men received the privilege of making it happen.tiful one could walk on their backs across the water.A hundred years before the American Revolution theO verlooking all this from a hill six hundred feet above the village was the spot now called Kid-river was colonized by the Massachusetts Bay Compa- der Farm.Deeded in 1770 from Benjamin Bel-ny and battles were fought with the local tribes for thelows to John Still to settle a contract, the site was early regions rich resources. Traversing the mountains fromon known as Rose Place. Though no deeds with this the north, the French allied themselves with Abenakiname have been found, its possible the moniker came'