Lake Morey Telephone and Telegraph stock certificate c1904 (Vermont) 

VT phone company. Nice American Eagle vignette with image of capitol above and seaside town the background. Unissued and not cancelled. Dated 19__ but circa 1904 from company records. Measuring approximately 11 x 8 inches. 

The Lake Morey Telephone and Telegraph Company was incorporated 1904 in Fairlee Vermont and was based in Thetford. It was eventually to be bought out by the Connecticut Valley Telephone Company in 1926. as it had with the Fairlee Telephone Company in 1916. This merger served forty subscribers in Fairlee and Thetford. The whole system was acquired by the New England Telephone & Telegraph  in 1947.

Lake Morey, is in the town of Fairlee, Orange County, Vermont. One of the New Hampshire grants, Fairlee was chartered by Governor Benning Wentworth on September 9, 1761. It was first settled in 1766. The Fairlee Railroad Depot was built in 1848 by the Connecticut & Passumpsic Rivers Railroad. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998, it is the oldest surviving railroad structure along the Connecticut River.

Lake Morey was named for Samuel Morey, an inventor who worked on early internal combustion engines and was a pioneer in steamships who accumulated a total of 20 patents. Lake Morey claims to have the longest ice-skating trail in the United States.

Thetford, Vermont was created on August 12, 1761 by way of a royal charter which King George III of England issued to Governor Benning Wentworth of New Hampshire. Wentworth named it for Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, 4th Earl of Arlington, and 4th Viscount Thetford, who in 1768 became prime minister. It was first settled in 1764 by John Chamberlin, who lived at East Thetford beside the Connecticut River.

In 1910, the Camp Fire Girls were founded nearby, becoming a national organization two years later. 

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