Historic Downtown Tour

Tour Overview

Sites in Historic Downtown Brattleboro

Stops

1. Brooks Memorial Library | William Czar Bradley II (BR)

2. Brattleboro Fire Dept | Wesselhoeft Water-Cure (WC)

3. Brattleboro Post Office | Judge James L. Oakes (JO)

4. 139 Main Street | The Commons Newspaper (CW)

5. 120 Main St | Stephen Greene Press (SG)

6. 23 Elliot Street | T.P. James (TP)

7. 139 Main Street | Rumi & Threshold Publishing (RU)

8. The Brooks House | Rudyard Kipling (RK)

9. 10 Park Place | Royall Tyler & Mary Palmer Tyler (TY)

10. 100 Flat Street | New England Youth Theater (NE)

11. 50 Main St | Latchis Hotel & Theatre (LT)

12. 2 Main Street | Kyle Gilbert Bridge (KG)

13. Old Town Hall | Frederick Douglass (FD)

14. 25 Elliot Street | Everyone's Books (EB)

15. Harmony Lot | E.L. Hildreth Printing Company (EL)

16. 113 Main Street | Clarina Howard Nichols (CN)

17. Mary Wilkins Freeman (WF)

18. Brattleboro Town Commons (CO)

19. Holstein Association (HA)

20. Green Street School | Jody Williams, Nobel Peace Laureate (JW)

21. Saul Bellow - Nobel Prize in Literature (SB)

22. Brattleboro Rd to Hinsdale | Charles Dana Bridge (CD)

23. Wantastiquet Mountain - The One Constant (WA)

24. Kwenitekw | Connecticut River (LS)

25. Old Island Park | Circus Capital (CC)

26. Mary Cabot | 6 Terrace St. (MC)

27. 63-73 Main Street | American Building (AB)

28. Anna Hunt Marsh Bridge | Anna Hunt Marsh (AH)

29. Brattleboro Municipal Center | Archer Mayor (AM)

30. 139 Main Street | Benjamin Smead (BS)

31. Charles Crane (CR) | Old Vermont Savings Bank Building

32. Fort Dummer (DU)

33. The Marina | Elizabeth Florette Fisher (EF)

34. Emily Mason (EM)

35. Estey Organ Company (EO)

36. Elizabeth Thompson (ET) - Brattleboro Memorial Hospital

37. BUHS Fairgrounds (FG)

38. Crowell Park | George Crowell & 'The Household' (GC)

39. Harris Hill Ski Jump (HH)

40. John Holbrook | 80 Linden Place

41. Station Master JJ Green

42. Karen Hesse (KH) | Brooks Memorial Library

43. Oak Grove School | Wangari Maathai (MA)

44. Marty Jezer (MJ) | Common Ground

45. 90 Chestnut Hill | WWI Nurse Marion McCune Rice (MR)

46. West River Petroglyphs (PT)

47. Brattleboro Retreat (Asylum Journal) (RE)

48. Retreat Farm & Meadows (RF)

49. 105 Chestnut Hill | Howard C. Rice & Family (RI)

50. Retreat Tower (RT)

51. Tom Bodett - author and radio personality (TB)

52. William Morris Hunt (WH) | Prospect Hill Cemetery

53. Wolf Kahn (WK) | Brattleboro Museum and Art Center

54. Eileen Christelow (EC)| Brooks Memorial Library

55. Richard Morris Hunt (RH) | Statue of Liberty Pedestal

56. Tom Bodett - author and radio personality (TB)

57. Fort Hill Trail

58. BDCC Business Park (BP) | The Book Press

59. Henry David Thoreau (WM)

60. Jemima Sawtelle (JS)

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