Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-06-02
the ONLY sRATTLeeoRo.
Duplicated by No Other Post Once "
the Land.

One hundred and eighty years ago
the first footprint OF Angio-saxoh CIV
ilixation was imprinted upon the SOL
Of Vermont by the establishment OF
"His Matcstys Fort Dummer.' Twen-
ty-nine wears later. the settlement was
chartered by George II. ana named ar
ter the first grantee. Loyal to MS KIM
Brattie fed TO Nova Scotia al the OUT
break OF the revolution. put ms
name stood fast ana bratueooro IT,
,oins the happy distinction OF being
nnduplicated by any other post once
of the land. Brattleboro consists OF
two villages. the east and the west
ioIned by the hyphen OF trolley roao.
The east village extends along me
connecticut river where II washes the
fool ri Mount Wantastiauet. and pre-
.mnts ono OF the most beautifui SIT
nations In THE American Tyrol.' IN
Vermont, as In the Tyrolese AIDS. arg
Inc same rounded hiHs clad 10 theIr
tops with soft coats OF furry green.
Here are similar lakes lying amonk
the green mountains IKE great tu
ouoises tossed upon puckereu sneets
M velvet Biologists find Brattleooro
one Of the best places In the world 10
study terraces. the three rivers haVins
mada deem cuts into the glacial drii..
THE drives of this region have been
famous for n century. 1T is strange
:" ~. wrote Fanny Fern. that ev-
arvhodv doesn't live In Brattleboro.
There is not one ugly walk or drive III
the whole town. I'm exhausted aunIr
| ing things. sat on the coacnihan
box and forbade him to tell me any
thing more about Broad brook r TSa,
or cascades until ! could pear II. Ina
Is the state I'm IN, ana Ner"'o'
swerable for IT," Ss ,,,
ON one of the high hills. reached py
drive bordering the cascading Bai-
estier Brook. Rudyard Kipling puht
home "The Naulahka." and laid out
,oyaly Iittla walled garden. wniie u
rootnath bordered with flowers LED 10
his iitti. tea house and glorious out
Look Longfellow spent a summer ~
/ Rrattleboro; Harriet Beecher Suoms
was a freuent resident: Mary WinIns
nassed her childhood there anu mas
incorporated many Brattleporo char :,
acter in her tales. Al the iorn liz
North Main street. young LARK,
Mead the last night Of the year 1895
nanstructed a recording angel OF WEI
snow which in that cold season re-
,na,ned An perfection two weeks. un-
nrotacted save by the sanctity OF gen.
Us - Tho boy sculptor reproduced ths
snou image in marble, and thus De
can his artistic career. WITHIN slsn
, ~ the SPOT where the angel STOOD weT'
horn two other famous artists: n'
. brothers Richard and william MoF''
Hunt. :. ~. road n
west Brattleboro. stands the ianlou
I'd HAYES homestead. In which sever
! Generations of one family have nved-
record eaualed by few houses m IN
1 lland. II was built by the nrst hu.he.
). ford HAYES, a blacksmith by trade. a
, an inn. In 1915 the old Bratuepor
light Infantry dined there the da.
that the stage coach, decked with nas'
hronpht the tidings Of peace after q
. war of 1912. One OF the boys VIZ
= waited upon them became the fatner
the future president. For more Una
s,xtv wears the house has been pr
a yata residence, but the old swingin
. SIGN remains one Of the treasures 9
the antiquity room" the pa.n.e
date. 1775., is only partially oolitera.e
q nv the later date. 1871. and the secon
/, nainter carefully preserved the locke
y n ton. boots and yellow smail-ciotne
whose extended hand seems 10 pecn ~,
!; the beholder from the hustle OF IN
{ twentieth century back into the NJ
entity of the eighteenth.-Lucy E'h'
q KeeIer. in The Four Track News.