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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 ...
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.
Other local history. [12] Brattleboro History Center: Brattleboro: Windham: Local history: Operated by the Brattleboro Historical Society [13] Brattleboro Museum and Art Center: Brattleboro: Windham: Art: Features changing exhibits by regional and international artists, located in a former train station Bread and Puppet Museum: Glover: Orleans ...
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's center area was first settled in the 18th century, but saw significant growth beginning in the 1820s, with the advent first of river-based transport (on the Connecticut River), and then the railroad, which arrived in 1849. Canal Street was laid out sometime before 1845, paralleling the canal along Whetstone Brook that provided ...
The Holbrook House is located north of downtown Brattleboro, at the northwest corner of Linden and Chapin Streets, across from the town common. Linden Street is a major continuation of Brattleboro's Main Street. The house is a roughly L-shaped 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboard siding. Its front facade ...
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.
The Brattleboro Museum and Art Center (BMAC), [1] a non-collecting museum, was founded in 1972 and is located in the former Central Vermont & Boston & Maine Union Station building in downtown Brattleboro, Vermont. New exhibits by regional and international artists are shown each season.