Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Brattleboro (/ ˈ b r æ t əl b ʌr oʊ /), [4] originally Brattleborough, is a town in Windham County, Vermont, United States, located about 10 miles (16 km) north of the Massachusetts state line at the confluence of Vermont's West River and the Connecticut River.
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 ...
J .S. Garland, New England town law: a digest of statutes and decisions concerning towns and town officers, Boston Book Co., Boston, 1906. D. G. Sanford, Vermont Municipalities: an index to their charters and special acts, (Vermont Office of Secretary of State, 1986). U.S. Census Bureau, Census of population, data for 1930–2000.
BRATTLEBORO, Vt. (AP) — A Vermont town has acted on the notion that young voters offer hope for the future, giving 16- and 17-year-olds the right to vote next week in local elections.
The Current includes the entire Brattleboro BeeLine bus system, composed of the Red, Blue and White Lines, which also go to West Brattleboro and Hinsdale, New Hampshire. The Deerfield Valley Transit Association 's fare-free MOOver serves mostly the southwestern portion of the county, especially the town of Wilmington and nearby ski areas.
Roughly Main St. from Old Vermont Route 30 to Vermont Route 30 and Town Roads 7, 23, 47, 49, and 50 43°04′55″N 72°42′38″W / 43.081944°N 72.710556°W / 43.081944; -72.710556 ( West Townshend Village Historic
The Deacon John Holbrook House is a historic building at 80 Linden Street in Brattleboro, Vermont. Built in 1825 for prominent local businessman John Holbrook, it is a high-quality example of Federal period architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. [1] It now houses professional offices.
He graduated from Brattleboro High School in 1930, Norwich University in 1934, and Harvard Law School in 1937. [1] [3] He was admitted to the bar in 1937, and practiced with his father in the Brattleboro firm of Barber & Barber. [2] Barber became active in Republican politics; from 1941 to 1943, he served as Brattleboro’s town counsel. [4]