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The Westminster Terrace Historic District encompasses a locally architecturally distinctive residential area on Westminster Terrace in Bellows Falls (a village of Rockingham) and Westminster, Vermont. First developed between about 1880 and 1910, the neighborhood has high-quality late 19th-century homes, interspersed with later mid-20th century ...
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.
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]
Rockingham wished for repeal of the Stamp Act 1765 and won a Commons vote on the repeal resolution by 275 to 167 in 1766. [11] Settlement, mostly by Scotch-Irish Americans, continued from 1785 up until 1800. [12] Rockingham County's first court session was convened near Eagle Falls south of the Dan River in February 1786. [10]
The Rockingham County Courthouse is a historic courthouse located at Wentworth, Rockingham County, North Carolina.It was designed by Frank P. Milburn and built in 1907. It is a Classical Revival-style red brick building that consists of a three-story hipped roofed main block flanked by later added (at two separate times) two-story flat roofed wings.
It is located on the west bank of the Connecticut River, and was the site at which that river was first bridged, in 1785. As a consequence, the village has since then been a transportation hub, as a nexus of water, road, and railroad routes formed there over the course of the 19th century.
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.
The number of species of fish in the main basin of Belews Lake fell from 24 to 6 between 1975 and 2002. [6] One explanation for the decrease in species diversity is the sharp decline in reproduction rates of piscivorous fish, such as largemouth bass and green sunfish, after 1975 following the introduction of selenium rich coal ash sluice into ...