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Brattleboro's center area was first settled in the 18th century, but saw significant growth beginning in the 1820s, with the advent first of river-based transport (on the Connecticut River), and then the railroad, which arrived in 1849. Canal Street was laid out sometime before 1845, paralleling the canal along Whetstone Brook that provided ...
The former Dickinson Estate is located in rural northern Brattleboro, near its border with Dummerston, on the west side of Kipling Road.The World Learning campus occupies more than 160 acres (65 ha) of a large farm property that was known in the 19th century as the Bliss Farm.
The town of Brattleboro, now the major commercial center of southeastern Vermont, was chartered in 1753 and settled in the 1760s. Its present town center grew around mills that were built on Whetstone Brook. A bridge spanned the adjacent Connecticut River in 1804, making overland travel to points eastward more feasible. In 1811 the first paper ...
The General John Stark Memorial Bridge is a bridge that crosses the Connecticut River between Brattleboro, Vermont, and Hinsdale, New Hampshire, in the United States. [2] The bridge, which connects Vermont Route 119 and New Hampshire Route 119, replaces the Anna Hunt Marsh Bridge and the Charles Dana Bridge which formerly connected these routes. [1]
The village of West Brattleboro is located about 2 miles (3.2 km) west of downtown Brattleboro, roughly centered on the junction of Western Avenue (Vermont Route 9), Bonnyvale Road, and South Street. Western Avenue is the major east-west route across southern Vermont, while Bonnyvale Road and South Street provide through access to the rural ...
The Creamery Covered Bridge is a historic covered bridge in West Brattleboro, Vermont. Now closed to traffic, the Town lattice truss bridge formerly carried Guilford Road across Whetstone Brook, just south of Vermont Route 9. Built in 1879, it is Brattleboro's last surviving 19th-century covered bridge.
Below is a list of covered bridges in Vermont. There are just over 100 authentic covered bridges in the U.S. state of Vermont, giving the state the highest number of covered bridges per square mile in the United States. A covered bridge is considered authentic not due to its age, but by its construction.
Location of Windham County in Vermont. The National Register of Historic Places is a United States federal official list of places and sites considered worthy of preservation. In Windham County, Vermont, there are 100 properties and districts listed on the National Register, including 2 National Historic Landmarks.