Eureka Schoolhouse: In 1759 construction began on the Crown Point Military Road to connect Fort No. 4 in Charlestown, New Hampshire, on the Connecticut River with the Fort at Crown Point on Lake Champlain. The Military Road was to become a major route for settlement and Springfield, Vermont was its “southern gateway.” The first village settlement in Springfield was in the northeast section of town, just off the old Military Road. The settlers began con-struction on a schoolhouse in 1785, however the small building was not completed until 1790. Today this building is the oldest one-room schoolhouse in Vermont and one of the few surviving eighteenth century public buildings in the State. (The reflection at the bottom of the photo is the roof of our car. There was nobody else there to ask to take our picture, so we set the camera on automatic and placed it on the car's roof.)