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The town of Newbury is located in the northeast corner of Orange County. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 64.4 square miles (166.9 km 2), of which 64.2 square miles (166.2 km 2) is land and 0.3 square mile (0.7 km 2) (0.40%) is water.
The Oxbow Historic District encompasses a well-preserved rural agricultural area on United States Route 5 in northern Newbury, Vermont.It was one of the first areas to be settled in the town, and includes seven agricultural properties, with six farmhouses built before 1835 and a number of surviving 19th-century farm outbuildings.
Newbury (town), Vermont; Newbury (village), Vermont, within the town of Newbury This page was last edited on 29 December 2019, at 14:13 (UTC). Text is available ...
The Newbury Town House is a historic government building on Scotch Hollow Road in Newbury, Vermont. Built in 1839, it is a well-preserved and little-altered example of an early Greek Revival town hall. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. [1]
Location of Orange County in Vermont. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Orange County, Vermont. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Orange County, Vermont, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many ...
South Newbury is one of the first places to be settled in the town of Newbury. The early residents were drawn to the area by the rich farmlands of the Connecticut River floodplain, and by the water power offered by Hall's Brook, which descends to the river east of the district. The first mill on the brook was built in 1764, and in the 19th ...
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Newbury village was settled in 1763, and was along with neighboring Haverhill, New Hampshire, the first colonial settlement north of Charlestown, New Hampshire on the Connecticut River. The area developed because of the rich agricultural possibilities afforded by broad oxbows in the river.