Beecher Falls–East Hereford Border Crossing
Beecher Falls–East Hereford Border Crossing | |
---|---|
Location | |
Country | United States; Canada |
Location |
|
Coordinates | 45°00′48″N 71°30′19″W / 45.013376°N 71.505353°W |
Details | |
Opened | 1926 |
US Phone | (802) 266-3336 |
Canadian Phone | (819) 844-2243 |
Hours | Open 24 Hours (Canadian station only open business hours Sunday-Friday for commercial traffic) |
Website | |
U.S. Inspection Station-Beecher Falls, Vermont | |
MPS | U.S. Border Inspection Stations MPS |
NRHP reference No. | 14000602 |
Added to NRHP | September 10, 2014 |
The Beecher Falls–East Hereford Border Crossing connects the towns of
Setting
The
The crossing is one of 15 in Vermont and is three miles (4.8 km) from the Canaan–Hereford Road Border Crossing. A US Border Patrol regional headquarters is between the two.[1] The crossing point is formed by the junction of Vermont Route 253 and Quebec Route 253.
A
Canadian station
The original East Hereford border station was built in the 1930s and was often referred to as "Comin's Crossing". It was a single-story white hip-roofed wooden structure with an integrated single-story canopy. This border station style was used frequently at many border crossings built in this era. This building was replaced with the current facility of a similar design in 1960.
U.S. station
The U.S. station is located abutting the border on the west side of
The station was built in 1932, as part of a general U.S. government program to improve border security. This program was prompted by changes in immigration law resulting in increased illegal immigration, as well as the increased use of the automobile for personal travel and an increase in smuggling occasioned by Prohibition in the 1920s. The station is a little-altered version of one of several standardized designs produced by the United States Treasury Department Architect as part of the program.[5]
See also
- List of Canada–United States border crossings
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Essex County, Vermont
References
- ^ "Chapter 2: The 45th Parallel". United Divide: A Linear Portrait of the USA/Canada Border. The Center for Land Use Interpretation. Winter 2015.
- ^ Looking from Canaan Line House, Canaan, Vermont, Early Vermont Postcards Collection at the Middlebury College Special Collections and Archives, Middlebury, Vermont.
- ^ J. Anne Funderburg, Bootleggers and Beer Barons of the Prohibition Era, McFarland & Co., 2014, p. 59.
- ^ "Beecher Falls Station". Border Security. US Customs and Border Protection.
- ^ a b "NRHP nomination for U.S. Inspection Station-Beecher Falls, Vermont" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-01-03.