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  Brattleboro: Connecticut River Byway
Brattleboro is the Waypoint community for an area that includes the towns of Vernon, Guilford, Dummerston, and Putney, VT, and Hinsdale, Chesterfield and Westmoreland, NH.
The Brattleboro Farmers' Market is one of the oldest in the region, and is supported by a wide range of producers from the area who grow vegetables, fruits, berries, and flowers, and organic meats.
Brattleboro celebrates its agricultural heritage on the first Saturday in June with an annual "Strolling of the Heifers" parade and festival through the historic downtown.
www.ctrivertravel.net /brattleboro.htm   (2127 words)

  
  Brattleboro Retreat (Vermont Asylum for the Insane)
The Brattleboro Retreat, a 1000-acre comprehensive mental health treatment center founded in 1834, consists of 58 buildings and sites, 38 of which are contributing historic structures that date from 1838 to 1938.
The Brattleboro Retreat is significant as one of the original psychiatric hospitals in the United States and the first in Vermont, founded 1834 by the bequest of Mrs.
The Brattleboro Retreat is a private non-profit psychiatric hospital comprehensive treatment complex of national acclaim, noted for its continued role in the development of mental health treatment in the United States and for its historical role as a rural, self-contained mental health hospital community.
www.crjc.org /heritage/V02-34.htm   (12410 words)

  
 Brattleboro Historical Society | Brattleboro, Vermont
Brattleboro Remembers is a collection of such stories accompanied by the rich assortment of historical photographs that stirred these memories of earlier days in the southeastern corner of Vermont.
Brattleboro Remembers emerged as a result of writing workshops sponsored by the Brattleboro Historical Society and made possible by a grant from the Council on Aging for Southeastern Vermont.
Brattleboro was ideal for settlement because of its topography.
www.brattleborohistoricalsociety.org /giftshop.html   (447 words)

  
 Brattleboro Area Affordable Housing Feature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Our focus is on Brattleboro and the surrounding towns, though we collaborate with other organizations on issues that are statewide.
In West Brattleboro in 1999 the 100-unit Westgate Apartments complex was nearly sold to a developer whose rents would have been unaffordable to many residents.
They'd both had jobs in Brattleboro and were all right until a serious operation took him to Fletcher Allen Hospital and she moved to Burlington to be with him.
www.tcvermont.com /baahc/baah.htm   (931 words)

  
 Brattleboro Vermont Real Estate Brattleboro VT hotels lodging Brattleboro real estate travel tourist info Southern ...
Brattleboro serves as a major gateway to Vermont and is a year round resort area in an agricultural region.
Brattleboro is a distribution center and is also known for banking, printing and entertainment.
Brattleboro is named for a popular early settler, William Brattle and is easily reached via I-91, an approximate 1.5 hour drive from Hartford, CT and about one hour north of Springfield, MA.
www.vtliving.com /towns/brattleboro   (329 words)

  
 Brattleboro - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Brattleboro, town, Windham County, southeastern Vermont, on the Connecticut River; chartered 1753.
School for International Training, private, coeducational institution in Brattleboro, Vermont.
Brattleboro : colleges and universities: Marlboro College, Graduate Center
encarta.msn.com /Brattleboro.html   (130 words)

  
 Brattleboro, Vermont, New England, USA
In the 1840s, Brattleboro developed a reputation as a resort town.
The prosperity of the Estey family also spawned other enterprises in Brattleboro, including banks and a sewing machine company.
Estey is now but a memory (some of the factory buildings remain), but modern Brattleboro's economy is healthy and growing, primarily because the town has diversified its industrial and commercial base.
www.virtualvermont.com /towns/brattleboro.html   (572 words)

  
 Preserve America Community: Brattleboro, Vermont
Preserve America is a White House initiative in cooperation with the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation; the U.S. Departments of Defense, Interior, Agriculture, Commerce, Housing and Urban Development, Transportation, and Education; the National Endowment for the Humanities; the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities; and the President's Council on Environmental Quality.
Brattleboro, Vermont (population 12,393), was built around the site of Fort Drummer, the first permanent English settlement in Vermont (1724).
Both the village of West Brattleboro and Brattleboro's downtown are National Register Historic Districts.
www.preserveamerica.gov /brattleboroVT.html   (381 words)

  
 Brattleboro Museum and Art Center History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
With the railroad came the faster pace of modern life and the promise of economic development, but on September 1, 1966 the Central Vermont and the Boston and Main terminated regular passenger service and the Union Station was closed, ending the era of the railroad.
During the 1950's, the construction of the interstate highway system, the popularity of air travel, and new forms of communication reduced Brattleboro's dependence on the railroad as its primary link to the outside world, and the automobile replaced it as the principle mode of transportation.
In 1916, the Brattleboro Reformer stated, "The new station is a structure in which the community can take pride..." In 1972, Helene Druhl told the Brattleboro selectmen, "Once we get started, the possibilities are endless." These statements are as true today as they were then.
www.brattleboromuseum.org /info/history.html   (800 words)

  
 Brattleboro Museum and Art Center
is a private, non-profit contemporary art museum located in downtown Brattleboro, Vermont.
The Museum's mission is to present art and ideas in ways that inspire, educate and engage people of all ages.
Brattleboro Museum and Art Center•10 Vernon Street•Brattleboro VT•05301-3390•tel: 802/ 257-0124
www.brattleboromuseum.org   (99 words)

  
 VERMONT STATE POLICE
The Vermont State Police Brattleboro barracks is located in Windham County (estimated population 43,000), which is in the southeast corner of Vermont.
The Brattleboro barracks is a sub-station of the Troop D Headquarters, located in the town of Rockingham.
The sworn personnel assigned to the Brattleboro barracks serve as the primary law enforcement agency for sixteen towns, which cover a total of 960 square miles in Windham and Bennington counties.
www.dps.state.vt.us /vtsp/brattleboro.html   (247 words)

  
 Bratt PD | Unsolved Crimes and Press Releases.
Brattleboro PD received a report of vandalism at the BUHS soccer field located next to the VT Argricultural Center on Old Guilford Road.
A residence in the south end of Brattleboro was struck by two blue/green paint balls.
Suspect was wearing a wind breaker (that had a wide white horizontal stripe with a skinny dark blue horizontal stripe on the back), dark blue hood with a dark blue ski mask, dark blue paints, and a star like tattoo on the upper part of his left hand.
www.brattleboropolice.com /wanted.html   (3231 words)

  
 Brattleboro Literary Festival
The Brattleboro Literary Festival, now in its third year, is a weekend-long celebration of the literary arts throughout downtown.
Brattleboro is a natural setting for this event.
Brattleboro has also been known for the industries, which support such creativity.
brattleboroliteraryfestival.org /old/about/index.html   (245 words)

  
 Brattleboro : Introduction | Frommers.com
In later years, Brattleboro became a center of trade and manufacturing, and the home of Estey Organ Co., which once supplied countless home organs carved in ornate Victorian style to families across the nation.
Brattleboro is the commercial hub of southeastern Vermont at the junction of I-91, Routes 5 and 9, and the Connecticut River.
Brattleboro has long seemed immune from vexations of modern life, but one modern inconvenience has made a belated appearance: traffic jams.
www.frommers.com /destinations/brattleboro/2178010001.html   (405 words)

  
 Brattleboro Reformer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
BRATTLEBORO -- A New England police organization will assess the Brattleboro Police Department's manpower, policies and community relations, Police Chief John Martin announced Tuesday.
The assessment at the Brattleboro Police Department will be a first for the New England Community-Police Partnership as part of its new outreach program, Worden said.
The Brattleboro Police Department has been under considerable public scrutiny after the shooting death of Robert Woodward by two officers in December 2001.
www.justiceforwoody.org /media/articles/html/barlow3.htm   (657 words)

  
 Book lists Brattleboro among top small towns in America - SIT Graduate Degrees and Professional Programs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
BRATTLEBORO -- Eric Blomquist's decision to move to Brattleboro in June 2001 may have begun when he was wandering around in a discount bookstore in Portland, Ore., and came across Brattleboro in Norm Crampton's 1993 book, "The 100 Best Small Towns In America."
The new book includes Brattleboro as one of the top 120 small towns, but does not rank the towns.
Anna Patton, who moved to Brattleboro from Massachusetts in the fall of 2001, also finds the community an asset of Brattleboro's.
www.sit.edu /graduate/campus/best_small_towns.html   (1454 words)

  
 Brattleboro Fire Web Site
Brattleboro is both a rural and urban community located in the south east corner of Vermont.
Located 90 miles northwest of Boston, Brattleboro is accessible from Interstate 91, Route 5, Route 9, Route 30, and by railroad from the Amtrak Vermonter.
Brattleboro is well known for its human services such as the Austine school for the Deaf, World Learning school for international training, the Brattleboro Retreat for psychiatric treatment and drug addictions, and Brattleboro Memorial Hospital.
www.brattleborofire.org   (216 words)

  
 Brattleboro (town), Vermont - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Brattleboro is a town located in Windham County, Vermont.
Out of the total population, 18.0% of those under the age of 18 and 9.2% of those 65 and older are living below the poverty line.
iBrattleboro (Brattleboro citizen journalism with news, information, events, map, weather, and more)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brattleboro,_Vermont   (395 words)

  
 Welcome To Brattleboro
Greg encourages everyone to experience Brattleboro; "it has the charm of a small town, but the bustle of a larger town, while still retaining a sense of community that is reflected in the business people's attitudes toward visitors, locals, and friends."
Brattleboro never experienced the blight of the 1960s when urban shopping malls took over many other areas of the country.
Brattleboro is the heartbeat of Windham County and the Gateway to Vermont."
www.thisisvermont.com /story/brattleboro.html   (1370 words)

  
 Southern Vermont, VermontVacation.com
Brattleboro is a regional center for commerce, finance and technology and was voted number five among the 100 Best Small Towns in America and also named among the Top 10 Art Towns In America With A Population Under 30,000.
Brattleboro is a vibrant community with a lively downtown.
Annual festivals brighten the streets with the Strolling of the Heifers in June, the Puppets in the Green Mountains in early fal,l and DecemberFest in the winter.
www.vermontvacation.com /region11/region11_Brattleboro.asp   (354 words)

  
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And in many ways they established what Brattleboro was to be for the remainder of the 20th century and beyond, an educated and cultured community.
Add to this a number of motels and eateries, ranging from a steakhouse to Dunkin Food, and this is but another area of Brattleboro of interest to the visitor.
www.linkvermont.com /townsvill/brattleboro_newfane   (1310 words)

  
 Building a Better Brattleboro Vermont Downtown Revitalization Shopping
Building A Better Brattleboro's mission is to support and nurture the economic, cultural, residential and educational environment of the Town of Brattleboro with primary emphasis on downtown.
Through this designation, Brattleboro is part of the State of Vermont’s Downtown Program, which provides access to grants, technical assistance and networking opportunities with other Vermont downtowns working to strengthen their central business districts.
Downtown is the heart of Brattleboro, the center of commerce, culture and community life.
www.brattleborovt.org   (252 words)

  
 Brattleboro News - Topix
The wife of a man convicted of defrauding people with his Bennington-based debt-reduction firm was sentenced Thursday for obstructing her husband's investigation.
Ten years ago, the Brattleboro Union High School complex was found to be so dilapidated the school was on the verge of losing its accreditation.
I edit the Brattleboro News pages on Topix when no humans are available to help.
www.topix.net /city/brattleboro-vt   (498 words)

  
 Main Page - Brattleboro Community Brain Trust   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The goal of the Brattleboro Community Brain Trust is to have an encyclopedia-like, online Brattleboro reference that is edited by the citizens of Brattleboro.
The West Brattleboro Master Plan 2006 is the final version being discussed.
This is a locally-owned Brattleboro wiki, a place for high quality collaborative research regarding ongoing issues.
www.ibrattleboro.com /braintrust/index.php/Main_Page   (490 words)

  
 Brattleboro CJC -- Home
Larry recently moved to Brattleboro from the Portland, Maine area.
While in Maine, he was the director of several community-based residential treatment facilities for people with drug and alcohol abuse problems, and/or mental health issues.
The event will be held at the Community Room at the Brattleboro Savings and Loan at 5:30.
www.brattleborocjc.org   (395 words)

  
 Brattleboro, Vermont VT - Motels, Hotels, Inns, Lodging
This Brattleboro hotel is also near Santa's Land theme park, the Green Mountain National...
Located minutes from downtown Brattleboro, within 30 minutes of Vermont's ski areas of Mt. Snow, Stratton and Bromley, along with the areas of Yankee Candle, Keene and the Connecticut River.
The Brattleboro Super 8 wants "To see you along the way." The hotel is conveniently located to Interstate 91.
www.roadsideamerica.com /hotels_motels/hotels/us-vt-brattleboro.html   (318 words)

  
 Brattleboro, Vermont VT, town profile (Windham County) - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk
Brattleboro is at the junction of the West and Connecticut rivers.
At the time of the 2000 census, the per capita income in Brattleboro was $19,554, compared with $21,587 nationally.
Median rent in Brattleboro, at the time of the 2000 Census, was $478.
www.epodunk.com /cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=25091   (665 words)

  
 Brattleboro Area Chamber of Commerce | Visit Here
In 1894 a company published a guidebook for Brattleboro, and in it was a description of what it was like to arrive in our town by train: "His eyes roamed over broad stretches of fertile meadows, with an occasional glimpse of the river, and in full view of the mountains beyond.
No matter which direction you travel in, the area surrounding Brattleboro is culturally rich.
We also provide sanctuary for hundreds of fine artists and craftspeople, whose studios are occasionally open to the public.
www.brattleborochamber.org /visit/index.html   (386 words)

  
 Brattleboro Historical Society | Brattleboro, Vermont
Brattleboro is a river town rich in history.
For more than 100 years Brattleboro was the home of the world famous Estey Organ Company.
Wells Fountain, pictured on the Society's logo, stands at the north end of Main Street and was designed by architect William Rutherford Mead, who grew up in Brattleboro.
www.brattleborohistoricalsociety.org   (119 words)

  
 About the Brattleboro Literary Festival   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Fifth Annual Brattleboro Literary Festival is a three-day celebration of those who read books, those who write books, and of the books themselves.
Today, the Brattleboro area is home to numerous active writers.
Brattleboro has also been known for the industries that support such creativity.
www.brattleboroliteraryfestival.org /about.html   (254 words)

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