Editing Wheelock, Vermont (section)

==History==

The town was named after [[Eleazar Wheelock]], the founder of [[Dartmouth College]]. Through a provision of the college dating to {{circa|1830}}, any full-time resident of Wheelock who is accepted as an undergraduate at Dartmouth College may attend the school entirely free of tuition.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Albright |first1=Charlotte |title=Live In Wheelock? Get A Free Ride To Dartmouth, Which Used To Own The Town |url=https://www.vpr.org/vpr-news/2015-07-14/live-in-wheelock-get-a-free-ride-to-dartmouth-which-used-to-own-the-town |website=www.vpr.org |publisher=Vermont Public Radio (VPR) |access-date=April 21, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Ramer |first1=Holly |title=Dartmouth, rural Vermont town have tuition agreement spanning generations |url=https://www.foxnews.com/us/dartmouth-rural-vermont-town-have-tuition-agreement-spanning-generations |website=www.foxnews.com |publisher=Fox News |access-date=April 21, 2022}}</ref> Between the 1890s and 2025, ten Wheelock Scholars attended Dartmouth College.{{cn|date=January 2025}}

Standing in the center of the village for many years was the old brick hotel, known as the Caledonia Spring House. In 1893, Myron D. Park, who served four years as a Wheelock selectman, sold the Caledonia Spring House to Marshall Way. The hotel was the site of a notorious murder on May 20, 1896, when owner Marshall Way killed his 44-year-old wife, Ellen Sheldon Way, in the dooryard. According to the St. Johnsbury ''Caledonian'' of May 22, 1896, "The little town of Wheelock was thrown into a state of wild excitement last Wednesday evening when the cry went around that Marshall Way had killed his wife. It was a terrible shock to the people of the quiet town, and it may be many days before they recover sufficiently to converse to any length upon another subject."{{full citation needed|date=January 2025}}

After the murder, the Caledonia Spring House was sold to Alden J. Rennie, owner of several mills in [[Sutton, Vermont|Sutton]], [[Sheffield, Vermont|Sheffield]], and Wheelock. The building was dismantled during the 1990s after falling into disrepair. It was moved to [[Peacham, Vermont|Peacham]] where it is being restored on private property.

Eleazar Wheelock's grandson founded [[Wheelock, Texas]] in the early 1800s and named it after the original town in Vermont.