Wagon Wheels Farm

Historical marker location:

South Royalton, Vermont

( Marker is on Vermont Route 110, 1 mile north of Vermont Route 14, on the right when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 2013

Tourists Accommodated, 1937-1942.

Vermont was the first state to abolish slavery through its state constitution: In 1777, Vermont became the first state in the United States to abolish slavery through its state constitution. The constitution declared that all men are born free and equal, and that no male person, born in the country or brought from overseas, could be held in slavery or servitude.