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Newbury is a town in Orange County, Vermont, United States. The population was 2,293 at the 2020 census . [ 4 ] Newbury includes the villages of Newbury , Center Newbury, West Newbury , South Newbury, Boltonville, Peach Four Corners, and Wells River .
The Oxbow Historic District encompasses a well-preserved rural agricultural area on United States Route 5 in northern Newbury, Vermont.It was one of the first areas to be settled in the town, and includes seven agricultural properties, with six farmhouses built before 1835 and a number of surviving 19th-century farm outbuildings.
The Newbury Town House is a historic government building on Scotch Hollow Road in Newbury, Vermont. Built in 1839, it is a well-preserved and little-altered example of an early Greek Revival town hall. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. [1]
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South Newbury is one of the first places to be settled in the town of Newbury. The early residents were drawn to the area by the rich farmlands of the Connecticut River floodplain, and by the water power offered by Hall's Brook, which descends to the river east of the district. The first mill on the brook was built in 1764, and in the 19th ...
Newbury village was settled in 1763, and was along with neighboring Haverhill, New Hampshire, the first colonial settlement north of Charlestown, New Hampshire on the Connecticut River. The area developed because of the rich agricultural possibilities afforded by broad oxbows in the river.
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The town of Newbury was chartered in 1763, and was the first European settlement north of Charlestown, New Hampshire on the Connecticut River.Among its founders was Jacob Bayley, who rose to prominence as a local militia general, and as one of the driving forces behind the creation of the Bayley Hazen Military Road during the American Revolutionary War.