Middlebury Garden Club
History

In 1761, Middlebury was chartered with most people settling in the town after the Revolutionary War.

Middlebury is a beautiful quintessential New England village with its white steepled church overlooking Main Street and its vibrant citizenry. To demonstrate our industrial heritage, a historic marker is found on Main Street commemorating John Deere and his invention, "the plow that broke the plains." This marker is located in Cannon Park near the blacksmith shop where Deere apprenticed from 1821-1825. John Deere left Vermont and moved to Illinois where he built the world’s first steel moldboard plow.