McIndoe Falls is in Caledonia County and is part of Vermont's "Northeast Kingdom". This area was settled by Scots (Caledonia was the Roman name for Scotland) and their influence is still obvious. Most of the town of Rygate (next town south) was once owned by the President of Princeton University who apparently had plans of moving Princeton there.
     President Witherspoon (who also signed the Declaration of Independence) sold the southern part of Ryegate to John Whitelaw. The 6 foot 10 inch tall Whitelaw represented a group of Scots who planned to emigrate to America. After consulting with Witherspoon, Whitelaw traveled to Ryegate, took a look, and then returned to New Jersey to make the purchase. Whitelaw later became the Surveyor General of the Republic of Vermont.
     McIndoe Falls, the principal village of the township of Barnet, the next town north (also founded by Scottish settlers). which was originally a saw mill center and lies along a stretch of rapids know as Fifteen Mile Falls. There were once great log drives from the headwaters of the Connecticut, a considerable part of which were sawed there.   McIndoe Falls Dam holds back the Connecticut River and crosses over to Monroe, NH. here and is home to the Mcindoes falls Academy. The first road through here was the Passumpsic Turnpike, which ran close to the Connecticut. The Stevens River, the outlet of Harvey's Lake, flows into the Connecticut at Barnet.
     Access to Interstate 91 Exit 18 is in Barnet (the next town north).The Passumpsic River empties into the Connecticut just below East Barnet and has a number of islands at its mouth.
Barnet was also sometimes called "Carthage" and was referred to as "Inwood" on old railroad maps.

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