Proctor (Vermont)

Rutland County

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Proctor is a town in Rutland County, the State of Vermont in the United States with 1,741 inhabitants ( according to the census of 2010 ). It was formed on 18 November 1886 as a spin-off from the towns Rutland and Pittsford. Center is the settlement Proctor. On the territory of the municipality were also important marble quarries, but which were now closed.

Late 1830s were found in the area of ​​town Rutland large quantities high quality marble near the settlement of Sheffield Village, which were rapidly digested by some companies. However, there was a lack of suitable transport facilities. For this reason, the projected 1842 and 1849 completed railway Bellows Falls Burlington was passed over Rutland. Marble from Rutland quickly replaced the much more expensive marble from Carrara, who was becoming increasingly difficult to win. The various small quarry companies were bought out in 1880 by the newly formed Vermont Marble Company, under its President Redfield Proctor, a Colonel of the Civil War and a former governor of Vermont, and summarized. Sutherland Falls was renamed two years later after that very governor in Proctor. Efforts to make the quarry and the town of Rutland independently and to be formed into a separate town, led in 1886 to success: the independent town Proctor was formed of equal parts of areas of the towns Rutland and Pittsford; at the same time West Rutland was spun off from Rutland and the central railway station, now an independent city, a municipality with its own administration but without legal autonomy (village ) appointed. For a better connection of the quarries to the main line, Rutland was the Vermont Marble Company on 10 September 1885, a own railway line, the railway line Hollister Quarry Albertson founded.

The marble from Proctor to a secure source of income that also survived the Great Depression and the Aftermath of the Second World War. From the 1970s, the quarries were then increasingly exhausted and were in the 1980s and 1990s sequentially closed. The line of Marble Company was founded in 1988 shut down largely. Today, a tourist attraction represents a marble museum in the central quarry of Proctor

In place Proctor, there are three churches: Roman Catholic, a Lutheran, and the Proctor Union Church. Only the Lutheran church is a timber; the other two church buildings are - of course - from marble. Also, a marble bridge in the middle of the place is, like the churches, a tourist attraction dar. Furthermore, the site offers its residents a primary school and a high school and a public library.

Rutland is bordered to the north by the town Pitsford, on the east by the town Rutland and to the west by the town West Rutland.

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