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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 945 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RUTLAND , a See also:

city and the See also:county seat of Rutland county, See also:Vermont, U.S.A., on See also:Otter See also:creek, about 67 m. S. by E. of See also:Burlington. Pop. '(1900) 11,499, of whom 1533 `weee' See also:foreign-See also:born; (1910 See also:census) 13,546. See also:Area, 81 sq. m. It• is served by the' See also:Delaware & See also:Hudson (being aterminus of one of its branches) and the Rutland (New See also:York Central See also:system) See also:railways. It is pleasantly situated within sight of the See also:Green Mountains. Among its public buildings and institutions are the See also:United States See also:Government See also:Building, the See also:State See also:House of Correction, the Rutland See also:Free Library (1886, with 17,500 volumes in 1908), the H. H. See also:Baxter Memorial Library, a Memorial See also:Hall; the County See also:Court House, the City Hall, and the City See also:Hospital. The famous Rutland See also:marble is quarried in W. Rutland (pop. in 1910, 3427 and See also:Proctor (pop. in t910, 2871), which were parts of the See also:town-See also:ship of Rutland until x886.

In loos the value of the city's factory products was $2,522,856 (28.8% more than in 1900). The township of Rutland was granted ' by New See also:

Hampshire in 1761 to See also:John See also:Murray of Rutland, See also:Massachusetts, and about the same See also:time it was granted (as See also:Fairfield) by New York. No See also:settlement was made until 1770, and in 1772 the See also:place was again granted by New York under the name of Socialborough: From 1784 to 1804 Rutland was one of the capitals of Vermont, and the Capitol, built in 1784, , is the second See also:oldest , building in the state. The Rutland See also:Herald, one of the oldest See also:newspapers in Vermont still published, was established as a Federalist weekly in 1794•—a daily edition first appeared in 1861, and is now Republican. In 1847 the See also:village of Rutland was incorporated, and in 1892 a portion of the township including the village was chartered as a city.

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