Manchester, Vermont Manchester, Vermont Bennington County Courthouse in Manchester Village Bennington County Courthouse in Manchester Village Manchester, Vermont Manchester, Vermont Manchester, Vermont is positioned in the US Manchester, Vermont - Manchester, Vermont Manchester is a town in, and one of two shire suburbs (county seats) of, Bennington County, Vermont, United States.
Manchester Village, an incorporated village, and Manchester Center are settlement centers inside the town.
Manchester has turn into a tourist destination, especially for those from New York and Connecticut, offering visitors factory supply stores of nationwide chain retailers such as Brooks Brothers and Ralph Lauren, as well as many locally owned businesses, including the Northshire Bookstore, one of America's dominant independent bookstores.
View of Manchester in 1913 Wentworth titled Manchester for Robert Montagu, 3rd Duke of Manchester.
The arrival of the barns from industrialized centers like New York City brought tourists, drawn by Manchester's historic architecture and beautiful setting among mountain peaks.
Between 1812 and 1819 Manchester was made famous by the Boorn Colvin case, called "America's first wrongful conviction murder case", the subject of a several books and still studied today. The town has three diverse state-recognized historic districts the Depot precinct positioned on Highland Avenue and Elm Street, Bonnet Street, just north of Main Street, and Main Street itself. Manchester is positioned in north-central Bennington County, lying between the Green Mountains to the east and the Taconic Range to the west.
Manchester is drained by the Batten Kill, Lye Brook, Munson Brook, Bromley Brook, and Bourn Brook.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 42.2 square miles (109.4 km2), of which 42.1 square miles (109.1 km2) is territory and 0.1 square miles (0.3 km2), or 0.29%, is water. In the town, the populace was spread out with 23.1% under the age of 18, 4.0% from 18 to 24, 25.0% from 25 to 44, 28.8% from 45 to 64, and 19.1% who were 65 years of age or older.
Manchester is crossed by four highways, including one Super-2 motorway.
Vermont 7 - A.svg Historic VT Route 7 - A Vermont 30.svg Vermont Route 30 Vermont 11.svg Vermont Route 11 Green Mountain Community Network's Orange Line bus and MVRTD "The Bus" Manchester-Rutland Connector serve the town with enhance transit commuter connections to Bennington and Rutland, in the order given. The closest primary airport is Albany International Airport in New York, although three everyday round trip flights from Rutland to Boston are available via Cape Air from Rutland Southern Vermont Regional Airport. The closest Amtrak train station is in Rutland.
Greyhound, the nationwide intercity bus system, also serves Manchester through Premier Coach's Vermont Translines with an intercity bus connection between Burlington, Vermont and Albany, New York. Like the rest of Bennington County, Manchester lies in the Albany Schenectady Troy tv and radio media market.
Their broadcast fortress is on the summit of Equinox Mountain, from which their callsign derives, enabling their signal to reach the northern and easterly Capital Region of New York's radio market area, while also being able to reach the remainder of southern Vermont, Massachusetts and southwestern New Hampshire.
WVNK 91.1 FM, a VPR partner station, is also licensed to Manchester.
Print news is carried in the Manchester Journal and Bennington Banner.
View of Manchester, Vermont by De - Witt Clinton Boutelle (1870) Title 24, Part I, Chapter 1, 3, Vermont Statutes.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Manchester town, Bennington County, Vermont".
Manchester Route, Marble Valley Regional Transit District.
Rutland-Southern Vermont Regional Airport.
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