Phineas P Gage, Vermont – If your travels ever take you to Cavendish, Vermont and you enjoy oddities, here is one worth checking out. Located in the downtown section of Cavendish is a plaque bolted to a boulder in memory of Phineas P Gage, who was known as the "Man With a Metal Rod in His Head".
On September 13, 1848, Phineas P Gage worked as a foreman along the Rutland & Burlington Railroad. He suffered massive brain damage when a 3 foot long tamping iron was blown through is head, while using it to pack blasting powder into a bored hole.
The most interesting part of the story is he recovered from the injury, but was mentally never the same. A strange and interesting piece of New England history!
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