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Bellows Falls is an incorporated village located in the town of Rockingham in Windham County, Vermont, United States.The population was 2,747 at the 2020 census. [4] Bellows Falls is home to the Green Mountain Railroad, a heritage railroad; the annual Roots on the River Festival; [5] and the No Film Film Festival.
The Rockingham Village Historic District encompasses the traditional village center of the town of Rockingham, Vermont. Settled in the 18th century, the district, located mainly on Meeting House Road off Vermont Route 103 , includes a variety of 18th and 19th-century houses, and has been little altered since a fire in 1908.
Rockingham is a town along the Connecticut River in Windham County, Vermont, United States.As of the 2020 census, the population was 4,832.Rockingham includes the incorporated villages of Bellows Falls and Saxtons River, as well as a large rural area west of Interstate 91.
Rockingham County is a county in the U.S. state of New Hampshire. As of the 2020 census , the population was 314,176, [ 1 ] making it New Hampshire's second-most populous county. The county seat is Brentwood . [ 2 ]
Bellows Falls is an incorporated village within the municipality of Rockingham in southeastern Vermont. It is located on the west bank of the Connecticut River, and was the site at which that river was first bridged, in 1785.
The 1852-built Bellows Falls station, circa 1915. The village of Bellows Falls was a transportation hub even before railroads: the 1785 construction of a bridge across the Connecticut River made it a stop for stagecoach lines, and the 1802 completion of the Bellows Falls Canal provided industrial power and a safe water route bypassing the nearby falls. [2]
According to Bellows Falls-based historian Lyman Simpson Hayes, writing in 1907’s History of the Town of Rockingham, the first settlement of the area that would become Saxtons River occurred in 1783, when Amos P. Cummings cut down the first trees of an “entirely unbroken wilderness of immense trees of primitive growth.” [7] As late as 1795, there existed only two houses in the village ...
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