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• The Johnny Seesaw property, 6.8 acres, was designated a National Historic District in 2008 because the business was a significant attraction at the dawn of the ski industry in Southern Vermont. Offering food, drink, entertainment, and accommodations, it served as a lodge as early as 1938 for skiers on nearby Bromley Mountain, which opened its first trail, the“ Bromley Run,” two years prior.
• It is said that Seesaw’ s was where some of its regular customers in the late’ 30s cooked up a plan to launch the National Ski Patrol System, and among them was the organization’ s first president Charles Minot“ Minnie” Dole.
• Plus, you get extra points if you know this bit of national trivia about Seesaw’ s: it claims to be the place where the idea was born to form the U. S. Army Tenth Mountain Division( ski troops specially trained for winter combat in alpine conditions), again thanks to Dole who lobbied the U. S. War Department for it in’ 39.
• As a place of employment, and as a popular and enduring hospitality venue, Johnny Seesaw’ s played an important part in growing and sustaining the local and regional tourism economy.
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