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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 .
West Brattleboro, Vermont; Windham-3-1 Vermont Representative District, 2002–2012; Windham-3-2 Vermont Representative District, 2002–2012;
Frank E. Howe, lieutenant governor of Vermont [28] George Howe, State's Attorney of Windham County, United States Attorney for the District of Vermont, member of the Vermont Senate [29] Jonathan Hunt, bank president and congressman [30] Daniel Kellogg, U.S. Attorney for the District of Vermont and Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court [31]
The Vermont Valley Railroad opened between Brattleboro and Bellows Falls in 1851, completing the all-rail route between Burlington, Vermont and Springfield, Massachusetts. The three lines became part of the Central Vermont Railway (CV) in 1873. [3]: 171 The first Brattleboro station was a long single-story wooden building, no longer extant. [2]
Brattleboro Retreat in 1844. The Brattleboro Retreat was founded in 1834 as the Vermont Asylum for the Insane through a $10,000 bequest left by Anna Hunt Marsh for the establishment of a psychiatric hospital that would exist independently and in perpetuity for the welfare of the mentally disordered. [4]
The U.S. state of Vermont is divided into 247 municipalities, including 237 towns and 10 cities. Vermont also has nine unincorporated areas, split between five unincorporated towns and four gores. As of 2024, Vermont has 30 incorporated villages, which are municipal governments operating within a town and providing additional services.
The Dickinson Estate Historic District encompasses the core holding of an early 20th century country estate in rural northern Brattleboro, Vermont.It includes a sophisticated Colonial Revival mansion house, built in 1900, and a variety of agricultural outbuildings dating to the same period.