Built in 1793, the Quechee Inn at Marshland Farm has always offered guests an unsurpassed Green Mountain getaway experience. The Inn first served as the residence for Vermont's first Lieutenant Governor, Colonel Joseph Marsh, and has been restored and expanded with great care.

Joseph Marsh IV, arrived at the mouth of the White River in 1772, amidst the Land Grant controversies. He came to this area from Lebanon, Connecticut, with his brothers Able, Elishar, and Elephant, his widowed mother Mercy Bill Marsh, two cousins, his wife Dorthy Mason Marsh, and ten of their twelve children. His oldest daughter, Lydia, remained in Lebanon; his youngest, Betsy, was born in Vermont in 1776.

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In 1776, Marsh received the commision of Colonel, a position which placed him in command of the Northern or Upper Regiment of Cumberland County. The following year he was a delegate to the convention in which the New Hampshire Land Grants west of the Connecticut River severed their ties with the Crown, and established themselves as an independent republic.

In 1793, at the age of sixty-seven, Marsh built a home "...opposite where the Quechee River breaks into little islands." Once completed, the Georgian-style house was referred to by the locals as the "Baronial Mansion."

The area is abundant with activities including golf at the nearby Quechee Club, the Simon Pearce Glassworks and Mill, antique shopping and dining in the Villages of Quechee and Woodstock, the Billings Farm and Museum, the Raptor Center at the Vermont Institute of Natural Science, the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, the renowned Quechee Gorge, and the Ottauquechee Valley Winery.

For more information call 802-295-3133, email, or visit the Quechee Inn web site at www.quecheeinn.com.

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