Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the late 1800s, Wilson “Snowflake” Bentley of Jericho, Vermont became the first person to photograph individual snow crystals.

Most of us have heard the phrase “no two snowflakes are alike.” But the idea that every snow crystal is unique traces back to a Vermont farmer named Wilson “Snowflake” Bentley. Growing up in Jericho ...