Vail (surname)

Vail is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Aaron Vail (1796–1878), U.S. diplomat

Alfred Vail (1807–1859), U.S. machinist and inventor

Anna Murray Vail 1863–1955), U.S. botanist and first librarian of the New York Botanical Garden

Benjamin A. Vail (1844–1924), U.S. jurist and politician

Bob Vail (1881–1942), U.S. baseball pitcher

Charles H. Vail (1866–1924), U.S. Universalist clergyman, Christian socialist, political activist, and writer

Edwin Arnold Vail (1817–1885), Canadian physician and political figure

Eric Vail (born 1953), Canadian ice hockey player

Fred Vail (fl. 1903–1914), U.S. sports coach

George Vail (1809–1875), U.S. New Jersey politician

Harry Vail (died 1928), U.S. rowing coach

Henry Vail (1782–1853), U.S. New York State politician

Ira Vail (1893–1979), Canadian-born U.S. race car driver

Louis Vail (fl. 1894), U.S. football coach

Melville Vail (1906–1983), Canadian ice hockey player

Mike Vail (born 1951), U.S. baseball player

Myrtle Vail (also as Myrtle Damerel; 1888–1978), U.S. actress and writer

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Vail-Leavitt Music Hall

The Vail-Leavitt Music Hall is a late nineteenth century theater presently in use on the east end of Long island in Riverhead, New York. The building was built by David F. Vail, with the help of his son George M. Vail in 1881. David was a local lumber dealer in the Riverhead and Eastern Suffolk County Long Island area.

The theater/music hall opened on October 11, 1881. The main theater and its balcony are a miniature opera house designed by J. W. Flack. The ground floor of the building housed commercial business storefronts, while the upstairs contained the opera house. The music hall began its operations with candle lighting, however the Vail's began operating a gas plant behind the theater. As a result, gas fixtures were placed all along the horseshoe balcony, and gaslight continued at the music hall until the advent of electricity to the area in July 1888, when the venue added electric lights.

In 1908, George M. Vail, now sole owner of Music Hall, sold the building to Simon Leavitt, a tailor and clothier, who leased out the upstairs as a theatrical venue. In 1914, the Music Hall was used by Thomas Edison as a demonstration site for kinetophone, an early attempt at the synchronization of sound and film.

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Vail, Colorado

The Town of Vail is a Home Rule Municipality in Eagle County, Colorado, United States. The population of the town was 5,305 in 2010. The town was established and built as the base village to Vail Ski Resort, with which it was originally conceived. Vail Ski Resort's first season was in December 1962; it is the largest ski mountain in Colorado.

History

Vail was incorporated in 1966, four years after the opening of Vail Ski Resort. The ski area was founded by Pete Seibert and local rancher Earl Eaton in 1962, at the base of Vail Pass. The pass was named after Charles Vail, the highway engineer who routed U.S. Highway 6 through the Vail Valley in 1940, which eventually became Interstate 70. Seibert, a New England native, served in the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division during World War II, which trained at Camp Hale, 14 miles south of Vail between Red Cliff and Leadville. He was wounded in Italy at the Battle of Riva Ridge but went on to become a professional skier after he recovered.