No government or agency owns the boundary or the vista. Private property extends right up to the boundary line. In the old days buildings were built in the vista or even crossed over the boundary. Today there are restrictions on what can be constructed within the vista. The picture of the Wah-Hoo-Wah cottage shows the vista, with the cottage on the Derby side of the line and with Ogden to the left. The inset image on the picture shows Ronald Weir (at the right) circa 1919 sitting on a boundary marker with the Wah-Hoo-Wah cottage in the background. Ronald died in WW2 and was the individual who bequeathed the land for Weir Memorial Park. A discarded cast iron stove lies on the Canadian side near where the cottage once stood. It is dated 1883 and this may be close to the date when the cottage was built by former students of Dartmouth College.
While Prohibition existed in Vermont, booze was readily available in Quebec and the border in the 1920s proved very porous. Dance halls like the one run by Jack O’Leary profited from thirsty Americans, and the uncontrolled backroads off of Arnold saw a lot of smuggling into Vermont.
