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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 Canal Street–Clark Street Neighborhood Historic District encompasses a compact 19th-century working-class neighborhood of Brattleboro, Vermont.Most of its buildings are modest vernacular wood-frame buildings, erected between 1830 and 1935; there are a few apartment blocks, and one church.
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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.
An illustration of the original Brooks Free Library building. The original property was torn down in 1971, when the Brattleboro post office expanded, and the new library was completed in 1967 at its current location. [2] Since then, the library has been funded by a mix of the annual town budget and gifts to the Friends of the Brooks Memorial ...
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 .
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.
Brattleboro is a census-designated place (CDP) corresponding to the densely populated core of the town of Brattleboro in Windham County, Vermont, United States. The population was 8,289 at the 2000 census .