The Old Stone House Museum and Historic Village

The Old Stone House Museum and Historic Village unveiled a new exhibit on Juneteenth in honor of the first Black man elected to the Vermont Legislature.

Alexander Twilight was born in Bradford to a biracial father and white mother in 1795. Twilight graduated from Middlebury College in 1823 with a Bachelor of Arts and is known as the first Black person in the country to earn a Bachelor’s.

Twilight eventually became the first Black person elected to the Vermont House of Representatives in 1836 and the only Black person elected to a state legislature before the Civil War.

Twilight died on June 19, 1857, exactly 8 years before the last of the slaves in the U.S. were freed, marking what is now known as Juneteenth.

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