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The Catamount Outdoor Family Center is the non-profit steward of the Catamount Community Forest, a town owned forest on Governor Chittenden Road in Williston, Vermont.The more than 400-acre (160 ha) property includes trails for a variety of outdoor activities, including hiking, biking, snowshoeing, and cross-country skiing.
The town center arose at this location, in part as a stagecoach stop on the Williston Turnpike, opened in 1805 between Burlington and Montpelier. Now United States Route 2 , it was the major route between these two cities until Interstate 89 was built in the 1960s.
The South Newbury Village Historic District encompasses the surviving elements of a small industrial village in southern Newbury, Vermont.It includes five residences and several outbuildings, most of which are agricultural in character, representing the area's shift in use in the 20th century.
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.
It is the location of the Wilder Dam on the Connecticut River. The population of the CDP was 1,690 at the 2010 census . [ 4 ] The village center is an early example of a planned mill community, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Wilder Village Historic District in 1999.
Darling Hill Road near the Estate in late October. Elmer Darling, a native of Burke, made a fortune operating the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York City.He began purchasing properties on Darling Hill (then known as Bemis) in 1883, and had by the early 20th century amassed more than 2,000 acres of farmland encompassing an entire ridge north of Lyndon and west of East Burke.
Camp Billings is a co-ed, summer camp on Lake Fairlee in West Fairlee and Thetford, Vermont, United States.Accredited by the American Camp Association, [2] it was established in 1906, and is open by boys and girls between the ages of eight and sixteen.
The district covers an area of 275 acres (111 ha) encompassing 95 buildings, sites, and structures that contribute to the historical significance of the area. The center of the district is an elliptical village green located at the junction of U.S. Route 4 and Vermont Route 106. Around the green and along the main road following the river are a ...