Brattleboro, Vermont Brattleboro, Vermont The Gothic Revival Municipal Center (1884), assembled as Brattleboro's High School, served the town in that capacity until 1951 The Gothic Revival Municipal Center (1884), assembled as Brattleboro's High School, served the town in that capacity until 1951 Brattleboro, Vermont is positioned in the US Brattleboro, Vermont - Brattleboro, Vermont Brattleboro (/ br t l b ro /), originally Brattleborough, is a town in Windham County, Vermont, United States.
The most crowded municipality abutting Vermont's easterly border (the Connecticut River), Brattleboro is positioned about 10 miles north of the Massachusetts state line, at the confluence of Vermont's West River and the Connecticut.
There are satellite campuses of three universities as well: Community College of Vermont, Union Institute and University, and Vermont Technical College. The town is home to the New England Center for Circus Arts and the Vermont Jazz Center. The Brattleboro Retreat, a not-for-profit mental community and addictions psychiatric hospital, is also positioned in the town.
Because Native Americans in the region tended to name places and regions after their rivers or watersheds, the site of today's Brattleboro, the confluence of the West River and the Connecticut River, was called 'Wantastiquet' by the Abenaki citizens , a name meaning, as stated to various translations, "lost river", "river that leads to the west", or "river of the lonely way".
The Abenaki would transit this region annually between Missisquoi (their summer hunting grounds near the current-day town of Swanton) in northwestern Vermont, and Squakheag (their winter settlement or camps) near what is now Northfield, Massachusetts.
To defend the Massachusetts Bay Colony against Chief Gray Lock and the rest amid Dummer's War, the Massachusetts General Court voted on December 27, 1723 to build a blockhouse and stockade on the Connecticut River near the site of what would later turn into known as Brattleboro.
Hostilities having ceased, Brattleboro advanced quickly in peacetime, and soon was second to none in the state for company and wealth.
A bridge was assembled across the Connecticut River to Hinsdale, New Hampshire in 1804. In 1834, the Brattleboro Retreat, then called the Vermont Asylum for the Insane, was established through a generous bequest by Hinsdale, NH's Anna Marsh.
Whetstone Falls, very close to where Brattleboro's Whetstone Brook flows into the Connecticut River, was a handy origin of water power for watermills, initially a sawmill and a gristmill.
By 1859, when the populace had reached 3,816, Brattleboro had a woolen textile mill, a paper mill, a manufacturer of papermaking machinery, a factory making melodeons, two machine shops, a flour mill, a carriage factory, and four printing establishments. Connected by the Vermont & Massachusetts Railroad and the Vermont Valley Railroad, the town prospered as a county-wide center for trade in commodities including grain, lumber, turpentine, tallow and pork. In 1888, the spelling of the town's name was shortened to Brattleboro. The Estey Organ company, the biggest organ manufacturer in the United States, directed in Brattleboro for about a century beginning in 1852.
The company's chief factory was positioned southwest of downtown Brattleboro, on the south side of Whetstone Brook between Birge and Organ Streets.
British author Rudyard Kipling settled in Brattleboro after marrying a young Brattleboro woman, Carrie Balestier, in 1892.
Brattleboro is drained by the West River, Ames Hill Brook and Whetstone Brook.
The town is in the Connecticut River Valley, and its easterly boundary (and the Vermont state line) is the bank of the Connecticut River.
Climate data for Brattleboro, Vermont Almost all of the populace is concentrated in two census-designated places identified in the town: Brattleboro and West Brattleboro.
Even with this, Brattleboro remains the most crowded town along Vermont's easterly border.
Both a commercial and touristic gateway for the state of Vermont, Brattleboro is the first primary town one encounters crossing northward by automobile from Massachusetts on Interstate 91, and is accessed via Vermont exits 1, 2, and 3 from that thoroughfare.
Brattleboro also hosts many art arcades, stores, and performance spaces, most of them positioned in the downtown area.
In 2007, after meeting definite qualifying criteria, the small-town Selectboard passed a resolution designating Brattleboro a Fair Trade Town, becoming the second Fair Trade certified town in the country after Media, Pennsylvania. C&S Wholesale Grocers, the northeast's biggest county-wide food distributor, made its command posts here until 2005, when they moved their administrative offices to Keene, New Hampshire; however, because of close adjacency to Interstate 91, C&S still operates a large shipping and warehouse facility in Brattleboro near I-91's Exit 3. Ehrmann Commonwealth Dairy is headquartered in Brattleboro and operates a dairy refining facility in the town that opened in 2011. The town's densely populated center is positioned near Vermont's lowest altitude point in the Connecticut river valley.
The town's high school and the Regional Career Center are also positioned in this section, as is Fort Dummer State Park, which is titled after the first European settlers' 1724 stockade.
Away from the Route 9 conduit, other parts of Brattleboro and some areas north of the West River have a decidedly non-urban character, with dirt roads, sparse housing, wooded Green Mountains foothills, and the last several farms left in the town following the 1970s' diminish of the dairy industry.
At its peak, the immediate Brattleboro region had over 170 farms; there are now less than a dozen remaining.
The section of Brattleboro north of the West River, formerly farmland, was mostly subdivided and advanced during the 1960s and 1970s following the assembly of Interstate 91, which runs north-south through the town.
A 'bird's-eye' view of Brattleboro, looking westward from near the summit of New Hampshire's Mount Wantastiquet, taken in 1905.
Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, formerly Union Station Brattleboro has a grow arts community.
It was listed recently in John Villani's book The 100 Best Small Art Towns in America, in which it was ranked #9 among 'arts towns' with a populace of 30,000 or under.
Included in the organizations that participate are the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, the Hooker-Dunham Theater and Gallery, the In-Sight Photography Project, River Gallery School, Through the Music, and the Windham Art Gallery. Gallery Walk is a mid-1990s creation of, and continues to be sponsored by, the Arts Council of Windham County. Other eminent arts organizations in Brattleboro include the Brattleboro Music Center, the Vermont Theatre Company, the New England Youth Theater, the Brattleboro Women's Chorus, the New England Center for Circus Arts (NECCA), the Vermont Performance Lab, and the Vermont Jazz Center. Alpine Ski Jumping's famous Fred Harris Memorial Tournament, held each February at the world-class Harris Hill Ski Jump (est.
The town operates and maintains the Gibson-Aiken Center, a large recreation and improve activities facility, positioned downtown on Main Street, along with a number of parks and outside recreation centers, including Living Memorial Park, whose features include an outside swimming pool and a municipal skiing facility.
There are bicycle lanes on Putney Road in the northern portion of town, on Guilford Street near Living Memorial Park, and on a short segment of Western Avenue in West Brattleboro.
The town played an meaningful part in the evolution and popularization of the skiing trade as a winter sport, with pioneering Brattleboro indigenous and Dartmouth College alumnus Fred Harris, founder of the Dartmouth Outing Club (1909 10), also establishing the Brattleboro Outing Club (in 1922), contributing to the first North American use of motor-driven ski lifts, and building the Harris Hill olympic-scale ski jumping facility, the site of global competitions every February that still attract daring ski-jumping athletes from all over the world.
Brattleboro employs a Representative Town Meeting small-town government, wherein its people are represented at-large by a Select Board of five members, and by a several dozen Town Representatives voted for from three municipal districts.
In turn, the Select Board hires and supervises a full-time Town Manager. The town's three districts also each elect a representative to the Vermont State Legislature.
Brattleboro voted in support of a measure calling on the town's law enforcement to arrest and indict President George W.
Brattleboro has a distinct mix of enhance and private primary, secondary and post-secondary schools and longterm position centers.
Downtown, Marlboro College, whose undergraduate ground is in the contiguous town of Marlboro, VT, operates a large and undivided Graduate Center building. Sub-campuses of the Community College of Vermont and Vermont Technical College are positioned in Brattleboro; in the downtown's newly renovated Brooks House.
Brattleboro is also home to the New England Academic Center of Union Institute and University, homed in the Marlboro College Graduate Center building.
SIT Graduate Institute, formerly known as the School for International Training, is a private college studies institution in northern Brattleboro.
An outgrowth of The Experiment in International Living, which was established in 1932 in close-by Putney, VT, the Graduate Institute offers master's degrees in a several internationally-oriented concentrations. Its pupils and faculty hail from all regions of the globe, giving Brattleboro a decidedly eclectic and global flair, and its eminent alumni include indigenous Vermonter and 1997 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jody Williams.
Brattleboro presently has three enhance K-12 elementary schools.
There is one enhance middle school, the Brattleboro Area Middle School (BAMS), and one enhance high school, the Brattleboro Union High School (BUHS). The Windham Southeast Supervisory Union, which oversees the enhance school fitness in the southeastern corner of Windham County, also administers a dedicated vocational education unit, the Windham Regional Career Center. The town is home to the Brattleboro Reformer (est.
1876 as the 'Windham County Democrat'), a everyday journal with a weekday circulation of just over 10,000, and The Commons, a non-profit improve weekly newspaper. The Parent Express, a improve newspaper, circulates in Brattleboro; Keene, New Hampshire; and throughout Windham County, Vermont and Cheshire County, New Hampshire. Local news is also carried in the Keene Sentinel and Rutland Herald.
Local stations offered on Comcast include most primary Boston-area stations, as well as WMUR-TV (ABC) and WEKW-TV (NHPTV) from New Hampshire; WCAX-TV (CBS), WNNE (NBC) and WVTA (Vermont PBS) from the Burlington / Plattsburgh market; WCDC (ABC) from Adams, Massachusetts (in the Albany NY market); and WGBY-TV from Springfield, Massachusetts.
Vermont 9.svg Vermont Route 9 ("Molly Stark Trail") Vermont 30.svg Vermont Route 30 Vermont 119.svg Vermont Route 119 Vermont 142.svg Vermont Route 142 Vermont Route 9 runs from the New York border with Vermont, west of Bennington, traverses the southern backbone of the Green Mountains well west of Brattleboro, and eventually arrives in the heart of Brattleboro's downtown as High Street.
The road then runs north with Main Street into Putney Road then to the traffic circle at Interstate 91's Exit 3 (connected to that highway via a trumpet interchange westward from this roundabout), where it diverges from Route 5 and runs eastward into New Hampshire, becoming New Hampshire Route 9.
Route 5 enters Brattleboro at its border with the town of Guilford and runs north-south, through downtown, eventually exiting Brattleboro at its northern border with the town of Dummerston.
Route 5, designated throughout Vermont as the Connecticut River Byway, is the only scenic byway in Vermont to receive nationwide byway status. Scenic Vermont Route 30 has its southern end in Brattleboro at the intersection of Park Place and Linden Street.
From this point, it runs for about 12 miles on a very gently graded roadbed along the West River's southern bank, affording a stunning vista and connecting Brattleboro with picturesque New England suburbs and recreational areas elsewhere in Windham County and Vermont.
Route 30 exits Brattleboro at its border with Dummerston and continues northwest along the West River.
Its small-town names inside Brattleboro are Linden Street and West River Road.
Interstate 91, originating in Connecticut and terminating at the Canada US border, runs north-south through town, arcing westward around the town center.
Its first three Vermont exits are in Brattleboro: Exit 1 serves the southern part of town, Exit 2 serves the section of town connecting to small-town ski areas via Route 9, and Exit 3 serves the northern section of town and neighboring southwest New Hampshire.
Vermont Route 119 begins at a 5-way intersection locally known as "Malfunction Junction" with US Route 5 and VT Route 142.
Route 119's small-town name inside Brattleboro is Bridge Street.
It continues east with an at-grade crossing of the New England Central Railroad just before crossing into New Hampshire over the Connecticut River, whose border lies just 0.08 miles (0.13 km) from the road's end.
Vermont Route 142 begins at Malfunction Junction (mentioned above), closing southward, closely alongsideing the New England Central Railroad for much of its length inside town.
See also: Union Station (Brattleboro, Vermont) Amtrak, the nationwide traveler rail system, operates its Vermonter service everyday through Brattleboro, connecting the town by rail with Washington, D.C.
Brattleboro was recently part of a $70 million re-alignment of the Vermonter's route to the old Montrealer route, restoring traveler rail service between Brattleboro and the Massachusetts metros/cities of Northampton and Greenfield. Upgrades to barns tracks in Massachusetts and Connecticut, to the south, are expected to decidedly reduce rail travel time to New York and points south by 2017.
DVTA "the MOOver" bus at the Brattleboro Transportation Center CRT "the Current" bus at the Brattleboro Transportation Center A several taxi cab companies serve the town, including Brattleboro Taxi and Vernon Transportation Services.
The closest small-craft airports to Brattleboro are the Deerfield Valley Regional Airport in West Dover to the west, and Dillant-Hopkins Airport in Keene, New Hampshire to the east.
The closest airports (both inside 70 miles (110 km) north of the town) offering regularly-scheduled domestic commercial flights include Lebanon Municipal Airport in West Lebanon, New Hampshire and the Rutland Southern Vermont Regional Airport, close to Rutland.
Downtown Brattleboro, as seen from a strolling trail just athwart the Connecticut River, in New Hampshire.
The town of Brattleboro is protected by the Brattleboro Fire Department, established in 1831 and positioned on Elliot Street in the downtown company district.
There is also a sub-station in West Brattleboro.
Brattleboro Police car at the Municipal Center, where the small-town police station is presently homed Brattleboro and West Brattleboro are protected by the Brattleboro Police Department. The Windham County Sheriff's Department provides prisoner transport and serves civil documents athwart Brattleboro and the rest of Windham County. Brattleboro is home to the Brattleboro Memorial Hospital, a 61-bed improve hospital serving southeastern Vermont since 1904.
Provides EMT and ambulance service for Brattleboro, as well as Cheshire County, New Hampshire.
Brattleboro is also home to the Brattleboro Retreat, a large private, non-profit psychiatric hospital established in 1834.
The Retreat, as it is known locally, was one of the first acute mental community care facilities established in the United States. It is the third biggest employer in the town, and 45th biggest in Vermont, with a workforce of about 400 as of 2013. Health Care and Rehabilitation Services of Vermont provides Brattleboro, and the rest of Windham and Windsor Counties, with outpatient services for mental health, substance abuse and developmental disabilities.
Brattleboro's electricity is supplied by Green Mountain Power. Brattleboro's surface waterworks is the Pleasant Valley Reservoir, which the Pleasant Valley Water Plant siphons through Brattleboro at a everyday average of 1.0 to 1.5 million gallons per day.
Also, backup water pumps are contiguous to West River Road just north of the Brattleboro Retreat. Main article: List of citizens from Brattleboro, Vermont In the comedy movie Super Troopers, Lieutenant Arcot "Thorny" Ramathorn suggests that Brattleboro would be a good town to move to since his station is going to be shut down. Brattleboro placed 11th on "The 20 Best Small Towns in America of 2012" list by Smithsonian Magazine in May 2012. In a Season 5 episode of HBO's Veep, New Hampshire congressional candidate Jonah Ryan gets into some difficulty when he references Brattleboro amid a Howard Dean-like speech. Brattleboro Museum and Art Center a b "Brattleboro town, Windham County, Vermont".
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