A marker identifies the Fisk home where Vice President Theodore Roosevelt was visiting when word arrived that President William McKinley had been shot in 1901. Roosevelt soon left Vermont as the national crisis deepened, eventually becoming president after McKinley's death.
Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.
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Source: oakcrestheritage.com/markers/vermont/grand-isle-county/theodore-roosevelt-s-visit-to-isle-la-motte