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Burke, Vermont - Businesses & Organizations
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- Town History
- Natural Resources
- Business & Organizations
Businesses
In addition to the ski industry, other tourist attractions include East Burke's Bailey's Country Store. This converted cow barn (1897) offers fresh baked breads and a ski shop on the second floor. Also in East Burke is Willy's restaurant, owned by George and Lorraine Willy, who operated a restaurant by the same name in lower Manhattan until 1978. The restaurant is a remodeled Methodist church with 16-foot ceilings, specializing in Bavarian cuisine.
The 1997/98 Vermont Yearbook reported Burke to be the home of three places for accommodations, four restaurants, three general stores, one quick stop, eight automotive repair garages, two cemeteries, two sporting goods stores, one art gallery, and a host of other businesses such as contractors, lawyers, plumbing, trucking companies, landscapers, a kennel, well-drilling companies, janitorial services, a radio station, and real estate offices, (The Vermont Yearbook, 1997-98).
The Mountain View Creamery, a Bed and Breakfast, is located in East Burke. Built in 1883 by Elmer A. Darling, the Mountain View Creamery supplied meat and dairy products for Darling's elegant Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York City. The Creamery Building, a carriage barn, a Morgan horse stable and the cow barn, one of the largest farm structures ever built in Vermont, frame the farm courtyard. The farm now consists of 440 acres and affords breathtaking views of Willoughby Gap and Burke Mountain. The Creamery, built in 1890, is a classic brick Georgian colonial building with a butter churn cupola. In 1989 the interior was restored and modernized to include ten rooms, each with a private bath, a parlor and dining rooms. Amenities include afternoon tea, cross-country skiing, hiking, bicycling, gardens, table tennis, lawn bowling, and croquet area and a function room for corporate retreats and gourmet lunches and dinners for groups. Address: Box 355, Darling Hill Road, East Burke, Vermont, 05832. The telephone is (802) 626-9924.
Railroads
The Canadian Pacific Railroad runs through the town at West Burke.
Organizations in Burke
Include the Grange, Masons, the Order of Eastern Star, Burke Mountain Club, and the Drift Skippers Snowmobile Club. Burke has participated in the Sustainable Community Development Project funded by the McConnell Foundation. Known as the Take Charge Program, its mission is to foster local leadership, cooperation and coordination by facilitating a series of meetings at which local people identify local issues or problems, form committees assigned to individual issues or groups of issues, and to work out an action plan resolving them. The welcome center and microbrewery are two results of these efforts.
Schools
Burke is part of the Caledonia North Supervisory Union School District. In 1886 there were ten common schools and eleven school districts in the town. Now, however, there are two public elementary schools in town: grades K - 3 in West Burke and grades 4 - 8 in Burke Hollow. The town does not operate a high school; students go to Lyndon Institute and other schools in the area.
According to the 1990 Census, the school population is:
Preprimary 19 in Public School 3 in Private School
Elementary & Secondary 200 in Public School 62 in Private School
College 61 Total
Burke Mountain Academy (see entry in Natural Resources section)
Churches: Churches in Burke include the East Burke Congregational, and Episcopal and Methodist Churches in West Burke.
Post Offices: The following post offices are located in the town of Burke: West Burke #05871 and East Burke #05832.
Libraries: The Town of Burke has two libraries, namely the East Burke Community Library and the West Burke Library.
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