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Brandon is an unincorporated village and census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Brandon, Rutland County, Vermont, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,727. [4] Most of the village is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Brandon Village Historic District.
The original allocation for the Brandon frequency was 101.9 FM, and was moved to its current 101.5 frequency when WCVR-FM in Randolph upgraded from a class A at 102.3 FM to a class C3 at 102.1. [3] The original call sign for the station was WADT, which was assigned from 1993 to 1998, though the station never made it on the air under the WADT ...
Statesman Stephen A. Douglas was born in Brandon, and his birthplace is now the Brandon Museum as well as the town's Visitor Center. [3] Douglas returned in 1860 to inform a crowd that Brandon was a good place to be born and leave. [4] Thomas Davenport, proclaimed by some to have invented the electric motor, was born and lived in Brandon.
The Brandon State School, also known historically as the Brandon Training School and the Vermont State School for Feeble Minded Children, was a psychiatric facility for the care and treatment of children in Brandon, Vermont. Founded in 1915, [2] it was Vermont's first state-funded residential facility for the care of the mentally handicapped ...
The Dean Covered Bridge was located about 1 mile (1.6 km) south of the center of Brandon Village.Union Street is a local road, providing access from the village to the rural southwestern part of the town, and crosses Otter Brook on a roughly northeast-southwest alignment.
The Vermont Granite Museum is a museum in the city of Barre, Vermont, devoted to the city's historically important granite quarrying and processing industry. It is located at 7 Jones Brothers Way, in the former Jones Brothers Granite Shed, a former granite processing facility listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Stars & Stripes 87 was built in 1986. [1] She was the culmination of the team's 12 Meter design advances, the fifth boat in the Sail America Foundation stable, and the third of the new boat designs by Britton Chance Jr., Bruce Nelson and David Pedrick. [2]
Mike Fink (also spelled Miche Phinck) [1] [2] [3] (c. 1770/1780 – c. 1823), called "king of the keelboaters", was a semi-legendary brawler and river boatman who exemplified the tough and hard-drinking men who ran keelboats up and down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.