Levi P. Morton

Historical marker location:

Shoreham, Vermont

( Marker is on School Road, 0.1 miles south of Main Street.)

Marker installed: 1949

Statesman and Banker lived early years in Vermont.

Vermont was the birthplace of the snowmobile: In 1922, a Vermont man named Carl Eliason built the first snowmobile, which he called a "snow machine." The snow machine was made from a Model T Ford engine and had a track instead of wheels. The invention was later refined and became the basis for the modern snowmobile.