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The village of South Royalton was farmland prior to the arrival of the Vermont Central Railroad in 1848. Daniel Tarbell, a mill owner from Tunbridge, recognized the location as an ideal site for a freight depot, purchased land from the local farmers, and began commercial and residential development. By 1855, the village had 28 buildings ...
802. FIPS code. 50-68050 [1] GNIS feature ID. 1459612 [2] South Royalton is an unincorporated village and census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Royalton, Windsor County, Vermont, United States. With a population at the 2010 census of 694, [3] South Royalton is the largest community in the town. It is home to the Vermont Law School.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Joseph Smith Birthplace Memorial is a granite obelisk on a hill in the White River Valley near Sharon and South Royalton in the U.S. state of Vermont. It marks the spot where Joseph Smith was born on December 23, 1805. [1] The monument was erected by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day ...
Royalton was re-chartered by the Independent Republic of Vermont on December 20, 1781. The 1780 Royalton Raid was the last major British raid of the American War of Independence in New England. In 1848, the Vermont Central Railroad opened to South Royalton, which developed as a freight depot.
What was known as "the common" was established as the South Royalton Park in 1878 and the state legislature passed an act to incorporate the South Royalton Park Association on November 1 of that year. In 1886, following a fire that destroyed the village's commercial center, the town chose to only rebuild on the west portion of Chelsea St.
At Randolph: 300 members of the Republic of Vermont militia. Casualties and losses. None. 4 killed. 26 prisoners. The Royalton raid was a British-led Indian raid in 1780 against various towns along the White River Valley in the Vermont Republic, and was part of the American Revolutionary War. It was the last major Indian raid in New England.
September 3, 1976. The South Royalton Railroad Station is a former train station in the community of South Royalton, Vermont. The 1886 station building still stands, used as a local bank branch of Bar Harbor Bank & Trust. It is a contributing property to the South Royalton Historic District, on the National Register of Historic Places.
Chelsea Street Bridge (Royalton, Vermont) / 43.823067; -72.519290. The Chelsea Street Bridge is a bridge in South Royalton, Vermont, spanning over the White River. The original bridge was constructed in 1848, followed by several replacements. The current bridge was completed in 2002.