"The exercises of Friday were held at Isle la Motte and the steamer Ticonderoga took a large number of members of patriotic societies and other visitors from Burlington and Plattsburgh, landing them near the site of old Fort St. Anne, the first settlement within the limits of what is now the State of Vermont. Two troops of the 15th United States Cavalry and Company M., First Infantry, Vermont National Guard, accompanied the party.
The exercises opened with solemn high mass celebrated at the shrine of St. Anne, Rt. Rev. James N. Burke, Bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of Albany, N.Y., officiating. Over sixty members of the clergy were present...
Following the religious exercises a recess was taken for luncheon, after which the literary exercises were held in the pavilion at the shrine of St. Anne...
Following the exercises at the pavilion the assemblage, headed by the band, and escorted by Company M, Vermont National Guard, marched to the crest of the hill where, near the roadside, a boulder had been erected by the patriotic societies of Vermont women on which a bronze table had been placed, bearing the following inscription:
In Honor of the First White Men who Fortified this Island in 1666
In Memory of the Sacrifices and Valor of
Colonel Seth Warner and Captain Remember Baker
Green Mountain Boys and Patriots
and
To Commemorate the Campaign of General Montgomery
Who Encamped near this Spot with 1200 Men in 1777
This tablet is Erected by the
Patriotic Societies of Vermont Women
1909.
The St. Albans Choral Union, two hundred strong, sang with splendid effect the beautiful and patriotic song," To Thee, O Country."
Mrs. Edward Curtis Smith of St. Albans presided over the exercises. Mrs. F. Stewart Stranahan, State Regent of the Vermont Society, Colonial Dames, delivered an address of welcome.
The presentation to the State was made by Mrs. Clayton N. North, of Shoreham, State Regent of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and the monument was unveiled by Miss Dorothea Smith, daughter of ex-Governor and Mrs. Edward Curtis Smith, of St. Albans, and by Harry Hill of Isle la Motte.
Governor Prouty accepted the monument on behalf of the State. The "Star Spangled Banner," sung by the Choral Union, aroused great enthusiasm, the entire assemblage joining in the chorus.
A feature of the exercises was the presence of Mrs. E.S. Parker, of St. Johns, Quebec, a great-granddaughter of Seth Warner, who occupied the seat of honor and laid a beautiful wreath on the monument.
