The sign is down. A historical marker that sat in the village green of Pittsford, Vt., since 1956 and proclaimed the bucolic New England town home to the recipient of the first patent ever issued in the United States was removed by state officials.
For decades Vermont residents believed that Samuel Hopkins, who in 1790 was granted the nation’s first patent, once lived in Pittsford. Even when evidence was presented to show this to be untrue, citizens of Pittsford held on to the myth. But finally the town relinquished its grasp.
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