Brattleboro Typographic Company
The Brattleboro Typographic Company was a printing company in Brattleboro, Vermont Brattleboro (), originally Brattleborough, is a town in Windham County, Vermont, United States. The most populous municipality abutting Vermont's eastern border with New Hampshire, which is the Connecticut River, Brattleboro is located about ... founded on October 26, 1836, as a successor to the firm Holbrook & Fessenden. The company started with $150,000 in Capital and eight power printing presses. The company issued large editions of the bible alongside other nationally distributed publications. The company initiated what would become a very successful publishing industry in the town. Notably, the printing company was one of the few publishers at the time who manufactured their own paper for printing. References Brattleboro, Vermont 1836 establishments in Vermont {{Vermont-stub ...
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Brattleboro, Vermont
Brattleboro (), originally Brattleborough, is a town in Windham County, Vermont, United States. The most populous municipality abutting Vermont's eastern border with New Hampshire, which is the Connecticut River, Brattleboro is located about north of the Massachusetts state line, at the confluence of Vermont's West River and the Connecticut. As of the 2020 Census, the population was 12,184. There are satellite campuses of two colleges in Brattleboro: Community College of Vermont, and Vermont Technical College. Located in Brattleboro are the New England Center for Circus Arts, Vermont Jazz Center, and the Brattleboro Retreat, a mental health and addictions hospital. History Indigenous people This place was called "Wantastiquet" by the Abenaki people, which meant "lost river", "river that leads to the west", or "river of the lonely way". The Abenaki would transit this area annually between their summer hunting grounds near Swanton, and their winter settlement near Northfield, ...
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