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Bellows Falls is an incorporated village within the municipality of Rockingham in southeastern Vermont. It is located on the west bank of the Connecticut River, and was the site at which that river was first bridged, in 1785.
Rockingham Free Public Library is one of four Carnegie Libraries in the state of Vermont. [1] The building, in Bellows Falls, Vermont, a village of Rockingham, Vermont, was designed by Boston architects McLean & Wright in Classical Revival style. [2] [3] The Carnegie grant was offered in 1905. The town took a while to decide on allocating ...
Bellows Falls is an incorporated village located in the town of Rockingham in Windham County, Vermont, United States.The population was 2,747 at the 2020 census. [4] Bellows Falls is home to the Green Mountain Railroad, a heritage railroad; the annual Roots on the River Festival; [5] and the No Film Film Festival.
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 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 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 ...
The library was founded in 1887, and grew out of the Rockingham Library Society, which began in 1799. The first Reading Room opened in 1888, in the Rockingham Opera House. The current building was built with funds from Andrew Carnegie, and was renovated in 2013. The library is part of the Bellows Falls Neighborhood Historic District.
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]