Brookline (Vermont)

Windham County

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Brookline is a municipality in the state of Vermont in the United States. The 530 inhabitants of the Town ( according to the census of 2010) live primarily in pasture and forest management. The municipality is located in a valley of the Green Mountains, which runs about ten kilometers west parallel to the Connecticut River. The main settlement, a little village, situated at the foot of some 530 meters high Putney Mountain.

1780 proclaimed and settled as part of Athens ', the southern half of this settlement area was declared on 30 November 1794 standalone Town Brookline. Additionally, small parts Putneys and later Newfares the new Town were slammed. 1821 first school house was built, the Round School: The first teacher of the church, Dr. John Wilson left, build the building based on the building of the Scottish Parliament as a rotunda. After the death of Wilson in 1847 it was announced that it had been with him at this Scottish highwayman Captain Thunderbolt, the 1816 offering a reward of 500 pounds sterling by the British Government had been exposed. The Round School is now regarded as a landmark of the place.

Today, Brookline has its own primary school with six grades and less than 50 students, but no church (a very unusual circumstance in New England ). The church life is not organized by clubs, but privately; the result is, for example, every year since 2001 a quilt with the theme "Moonlight On Vermont " in traditional community work, which is then, just as traditionally sold for charitable purposes.

Surrounding towns

All information bee-line distances.

• North Grafton, 16.5km
• Northeast: Bellows Falls, 17.5 km
• Southeast: Dummerston, 11.5 km
• Southwest: Newfane, 5.0 km
• West: Townshend, 6.2 km
• North West: Windham, 20.0 km