Put Your Hand on My Shoulder...

As you can see, this is very nice cabinet card photograph of a Vermont couple taken in the state capital of Montpelier sometime during the 1890s. The young lady is wearing a cross around her neck as well as some sort of medallion pinned to her dress, but I have been unable to make out what it is. The both have a look of confidence and love in each other, but unfortunately there is nothing on the back of the image to help identify who this happy couple was.

Monpelier, by population, is the smallest state capital in the United States, but it is well worth a visit. The Vermont State House is very impressive and the "city", if you can call it one, is really nice and very walkable. Montpelier was chartered by the Vermont General Assembly on August 14, 1781. Colonel Jacob Davis, one of the first settlers, selected the name after the French city of Montpellier. The name is a combination of "mont"– hill, and "peller" – bare or shorn. It is very likely that he named Montpelier for the French town of Montpellier, in honor of France's aid during the American Revolution.