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BRATTLEBORO

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 437 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BRATTLEBORO , a See also:

village of See also:Windham See also:county, See also:Vermont, U.S.A., in a township (pop. 1910, 7541) of the same name, in the See also:south-See also:east See also:part of the See also:state, 6o m. N. of See also:Springfield, See also:Massachusetts, on the See also:Connecticut See also:river. Pop. (189o) 5467; (1900) 5297 (686 See also:foreign-See also:born); (1910) 6517. It is served by the Central Vermont and the See also:Boston & See also:Maine See also:railways. Situated in a hilly, heavily wooded See also:country, it is an attractive See also:place, with a few houses dating from the 18th See also:century. Among the manufactures are toys, See also:furniture, overalls and See also:organs, the Estey and the See also:Carpenter organs being made there. First settled about 1753, Brattleboro took its name from one of the See also:original patentees, See also:William Brattle (1702-1776), a Massachusetts loyalist. It was incorporated ten years later. See H. Burnham, Brattleboro (Brattleboro, 1880), and H.

M. Burt, The Attractions of Brattleboro, Glimpses of Past and See also:

Present (Brattleboro, 1866).

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