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Brattleboro

Brattleboro, Vermont
Town
The Gothic Revival Municipal Center (1884), built as Brattleboro's High School, served the town in that capacity until 1951
The Gothic Revival Municipal Center (1884), built as Brattleboro's High School, served the town in that capacity until 1951
Motto: The One and Only Brattleboro
Location in Vermont
Location in Vermont
Brattleboro, Vermont is located in the US
Brattleboro, Vermont
Brattleboro, Vermont
Location in the United States
Coordinates: 42°51′0″N 72°34′56″W / 42.85000°N 72.58222°W / 42.85000; -72.58222Coordinates: 42°51′0″N 72°34′56″W / 42.85000°N 72.58222°W / 42.85000; -72.58222
Country United States
State Vermont
County Windham
Chartered 1753
Government
 • Type Municipal
 • Town Manager Peter Elwell
 • Assistant Town Manager Patrick Moreland
 • Town Moderator Lawrin Crispe
 • Executive Secretary Jan Anderson
Area
 • Total 32.4 sq mi (84.0 km2)
 • Land 32.0 sq mi (82.9 km2)
 • Water 0.5 sq mi (1.2 km2)
Elevation c. 200-1,768 ft (c. 61-539 m)
Population (2010)
 • Total 12,046
 • Density 375.3/sq mi (144.9/km2)
Time zone Eastern (EST) (UTC-5)
 • Summer (DST) EDT (UTC-4)
ZIP codes 05301-05304
Area code(s) 802
FIPS code 50-07900
GNIS feature ID 1462049
Website brattleboro.org

Brattleboro (/ˈbrætəlˌbər/), originally Brattleborough, is a town in Windham County, Vermont, United States. The most populous municipality abutting Vermont's eastern border (the Connecticut River), Brattleboro is located about 10 miles north of the Massachusetts state line, at the confluence of Vermont's West River and the Connecticut. In 2014, Brattleboro's population was estimated by the U.S. Census Bureau to be 11,765.

Marlboro College Center for Graduate and Professional Studies and SIT Graduate Institute are located in the town. There are satellite campuses of three colleges 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 health and addictions psychiatric hospital, is also located 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 people, a name meaning, according to various translations, "lost river", "river that leads to the west", or "river of the lonely way". Today known only by its English-translated name, the West River remains demarcated by New Hampshire's towering Mount Wantastiquet, directly opposite its mouth, and Lake Wantastiquet, near where it rises at its source. The Abenaki would transit this area 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. The specific Abenaki band who lived here and traversed this place were called Sokoki, meaning "people who go their own way" or "people of the lonely way". The Abenaki's inclusive name for what is now Vermont was "Ndakinna" ("our land"), and in the 17th and 18th centuries, as more Europeans moved into the region, their often vigorous measures of self-defense culminated in Dummer's War (also known variously as Greylock's War, Three Years War, Lovewell's War, the 4th Indian War, and in Maine as Father Rasle's War). Most Abenaki allied with the French during this period, and following what is now known as the French and Indian War (1754–1763), they were largely driven north or fled into Quebec, further opening the way for English – and later United States – settlements in the area.


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