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Their officials are a clerk, five trustees, a collector of taxes and a treasurer". E. T. Howe, "Vermont Incorporated Villages: A Vanishing Institution", Vermont History 73, 16 (2005). J .S. Garland, New England town law: a digest of statutes and decisions concerning towns and town officers, Boston Book Co., Boston, 1906.
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 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.
Remaining county government is judicial. The area has no "county taxes". In 2007, median property taxes in the county were $3,809, placing it 265th out of 1,817 counties in the nation with populations over 20,000. This was the highest in Vermont. [15]
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 .
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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 ...