Event date: Dec 12, 1857
Just three months from the great fire of September the torch of the incendiary was lighted in our village. About half past eight o’clock, on Saturday evening, the large barn connected with the Vermont Asylum for the Insane, was discovered to be completely on fire. The next morning tracks were discovered in the snow leading from the north end of the barn up the banks, over fences, across roads, through woodlots and into the street where they were lost.
