Smugglers' Notch is a resort area in Jeffersonville, Vermont. Its namesake is a narrow notch (mountain pass) running adjacent to Sterling Mountain, which smugglers used many years ago.^[2] Smugglers' Notch is nicknamed Smuggs.
It consists of three mountains: Morse Mountain, Madonna and Sterling
Mountains. The resort attracts skiers in the winter and summer
vacationers during the warmer months
History
Smugglers' Notch was founded 1956, by a group of Vermont skiers. The first lifts were two pomas (or platter lifts) on Sterling Mountain.
In the early 1960s, Tom Watson, Jr., Chairman of IBM,
became involved with the mountain. The site of the village today was an
open field and logging station. Watson envisioned a village patterned
after those found in Europe. Soon, he developed the nearby Morse and
Madonna mountains. It is said that Watson placed the bottom of the
Madonna I chairlift several feet below the lodge to obtain the honor of
owning the world's longest bottom-drive chairlift at the time.
After this was done, Watson started on the Village at Morse that he had envisioned. He hired Stanley Snider of Stanmar, a Massachusetts-based developer and Martha's Vineyard resort owner, to create that village. After a heart attack, Watson
began to divest in some of his business holdings and sold Smuggs to
Snider and Stanmar, who operated the resort for years. At that time
Terpstra and Morrow constructed a large in-ground pool and 24
four-bedroom, four-bath, pool-front luxury condominiums. Terpstra is
still a very active property owner at the entrance of the resort. They
hired AT&T's Bill Stritzler, who owned a home at Smuggs, as the
Managing Director of the resort. When Snider retired, he sold the resort
to Stritzler.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smugglers%27_Notch
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Smugglers Notch by Kevin McNeal

Tuesday, 3rd November 2009