Rev. Lewis Grout

  • <p>Rev. Lewis Grout, courtesy: Brattleboro Historical Society</p> <p>Rev. Lewis Grout, courtesy: Brattleboro Historical Society</p>

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About

Rev. Lewis Grout was born in Newfane VT in 1815. He graduated from Yale, and spent 15 years as a Congregationalist minister at a remote station in the Zulu country of South Africa. When he returned to the US he wrote "Zulu-Land: Or, Life Among the Zulu-Kafirs of Natal, South Africa", published in 1864. Among his other publications is a history of Early Brattleboro. Rev. Grout died in Brattleboro in 1905. His house, built in 1880, still stands today on the corner of Bonnyvale Road and Western Avenue.

Tour Stop Location

9 Bonnyvale Road, Brattleboro, Vermont 05301, United States

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Audio Producer: Wendy Wallis

Research: Kathleen Whallen

Narration: Orion Barber (as Rev. Grout)

Orion Barber reads Grout parts.

Michael Nickolas (tribal call, from Audio Blocks)

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