White River Junction, Vermont White River Junction, Vermont White River Junction barns station White River Junction barns station White River Junction in 1889 White River Junction is an unincorporated village and census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Hartford in Windsor County, Vermont, United States.

The village contains the White River Junction Historic District, a historic precinct that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 and whose boundaries were increased in 2002. The historic precinct reflects urban architecture of the region from the late 19th century and early 20th century.

Post Office building, and the White River Junction Fire House, showing examples of Greek Revival, Colonial Revival, Richardsonian Romanesque, Italianate and Romanesque architecture. From the arrival of the first barns s in the late 1840s until rail diminished in importance in the 1960s due to the Interstate Highway System, White River Junction was the most meaningful barns improve in Vermont. Its initial importance was due to its locale at the confluence of the White River with the Connecticut River.

In 1803 Elias Lyman assembled a bridge athwart the Connecticut from the north bank of the White River to West Lebanon, New Hampshire. Five different barns lines were laid through the village site between 1847 and 1863 (the Vermont Central Railway and Connecticut River Railroad in 1847, the Connecticut and Passumpsic Rivers Railroad in 1848, the Northern New Hampshire Railroad in 1849, and the Woodstock Railroad in 1863), creating an eight-track crossing that was served by 50 traveler trains everyday. In 1849, the village's first barns depot was built, and small-town farmer Samuel Nutt arranged to buy and dismantle a hotel in Enfield, New Hampshire, and move it to his farm on the other side of the barns tracks from the depot.

White River Junction hosted the annual Vermont State Fair from the mid-19th century until the mid-20th century.

White River Junction is positioned at 43 38 56 N 72 19 11 W (43.64888, -72.319588). It takes its name from the White River, which joins with the Connecticut River there.

White River Junction in 1915 White River Junction served as the locale for the recording of director D.W.

Griffith's film Way Down East, in part filmed on the ice floes of the Connecticut and White rivers, starring Lillian Gish and Richard Barthelmess.

White River Junction is home to the Center for Cartoon Studies, a 2-year art school focusing on sequential art.

It makes its home in White River Junction's former fire station on Bridge Street, next to the underpass.

White River Junction is home to Northern Stage, a experienced regional theatre.

White River Junction has a vibrant music scene.

White River Junction, known mostly for its quirky and creative downtown area. White River Junction is crossed by: To take favor of the village's locale as one of Vermont's busiest junctions, and as the place where the state's two primary Interstate highways meet, a several chain hotels have been assembled in the area.

See also: White River Junction (Amtrak station) Amtrak, the nationwide traveler rail system, provides everyday service through White River Junction, operating its Vermonter between Washington, D.C.

White River Junction was formerly an meaningful junction on the Boston & Maine Railroad's Connecticut River Line.

White River Junction also serves as a primary stop along the Green Mountain Railroad for the White River Flyer train.

Greyhound, the nationwide intercity bus system, provides everyday service to and from White River Junction from a terminal on the corner of US Route 5 and Sykes Mountain Road.

Advance Transit provides small-town bus transit in and around the White River Junction area.

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