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The first European descendants to work the land and stay in the town were three brothers, Daniel, Jacob, and Elijah Hall, along with Jonathan Fowler. Their homestead was built along the [[Connecticut River]] and to the north near McIndoe Falls. Elijah Hall built the first house in [[Caledonia County, Vermont|Caledonia County]] in Barnet, near the base of Stevens Falls.<ref>{{cite book| first=WPA for the State of Vermont| last=Federal Writers Project| title=Vermont: A Guide to the Green Mountain State| publisher=The Riverside Press| location=Boston| year=1937| pages=177}}</ref> Colonel Alexander Harvey came from [[Dundee]], [[Scotland]], for those in the town who wished to find new land in the American colonies. Despite losing contact with almost all of them after the [[American Revolution]] broke out, he decided to stay, claiming {{convert|7000|acre|km2}} of land and a lake, now known as [[Harvey's Lake (Vermont)|Harvey's Lake]].<ref>{{cite book| last=Child| first=Hamilton| title=Gazetteer of Caledonia and Essex Counties, VT: 1764–1887| publisher=Hamilton Child| year=1887| pages=133–151}}</ref>
Two governors of the state of [[Vermont]] were from Barnet: [[Erastus Fairbanks]], who served two terms from 1852–1853 and 1860–1861, and his son, [[Horace Fairbanks]], who served from 1876 to 1878. The Fairbanks family left Barnet for nearby St. Johnsbury, where they were known for manufacturing the first [[Weighing scale|platform scale]].<ref>{{cite book| last=Fairbanks| first=Lorenzo Sayles| title=Genealogy of the Fairbanks Family in America 1633–1897| url=https://archive.org/details/genealogyfairba00fairgoog| publisher=American Printing and Engraving Company| location=Boston| year=1897}}</ref>
Ocean explorer and [[scuba diving|scuba]] inventor [[Jacques Cousteau]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EY2JFNAnma8C&pg=PA21&lpg=PA21&dq=cousteau+%22harvey's+lake%22&source=bl&ots=BC86jJ5K09&sig=LsqPGtfLwP7YcNuKJEBwkB4NmMo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=A_0JT-gci663B8THwKAI&ved=0CDwQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=cousteau+%22harvey's+lake%22&f=false|title=My Father, the Captain: My Life with Jacques Cousteau|last=Cousteau|first=Jean-Michel|date=26 March 2018|website=|publisher=National Geographic Society|page=21|via=Google Books|access-date=|}}</ref> had influential experiences on Harvey's Lake as a young boy in the early 1920s. While attending a summer camp he experimented with staying underwater by breathing through hollow reeds found in the lake shallows. Though he could not yet swim well, this allowed him to stay underwater for extended periods.
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