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Whitingham Village Historic District
The Whitingham Village Historic District encompasses much of the current village center of Whitingham, Vermont. It was developed mainly in the second half of the 19th century around industries powered by local water sources, and includes well-preserved architecture from that period. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. Description and history The present village of Whitingham was established in 1822, when a mineral spring with supposed healing properties was found in the area. Sadawga Brook, which feeds the Deerfield River via Harriman Reservoir, drops substantially after leaving Sadawga Lake, and provided a source of water power for industries. By 1840 the village included a gristmill, sawmill, and wood turning shop, along with a small cluster of homes. This economic growth led to the village's increasing importance, resulting in the movement of the town's civic center there from a nearby hill in the 1860s. The village began to decline economi ...
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Vermont Route 100
Vermont Route 100 (VT 100) is a north–south state highway in Vermont in the United States. Running through the center of the state, it travels nearly the entire length of Vermont and is long. VT 100 is the state's longest numbered highway of any type. Route description The southern terminus of the route is at the Massachusetts state line in Stamford, where it continues south as Route 8. Its northern terminus is at VT 105 in the town of Newport, which lies on the Canadian border. VT 100 passes along the eastern edge of the Green Mountain National Forest for much of its length and also passes through the Mad River Valley. It runs parallel to, and lies between, U.S. Route 7 (US 7) to the west and US 5 to the east. The road is the main thoroughfare for some of Vermont's most well-known resort towns, including Wilmington, Ludlow, Killington, Warren, and Stowe. As such, many of Vermont's ski resorts are located either directly on ...
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Whitingham, Vermont
Whitingham is a town in Windham County, Vermont, United States. The town was named for Nathan Whiting, a landholder. The population was 1,344 at the 2020 census. Whitingham is the birthplace of Brigham Young, the second president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and founder of Salt Lake City, Utah. Its village center, census-designated place, is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Whitingham Village Historic District. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 39.3 square miles (101.8 km2) of which 37.1 square miles (96.0 km2) is land and 2.2 square miles (5.8 km2) (5.70%) is water. Demographics At the 2010 census, there were 1,357 people in the town. The population density was 34.53 per square mile (13.33/km2). There were 918 housing units at an average density of 25.1 per square mile (8.4/km2). The racial makeup of the town was 99.23% White, 0.0 ...
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Whitingham (CDP), Vermont
Whitingham is the central village and a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Whitingham, Windham County, Vermont, United States. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 91, compared to 1,344 in the entire town. Part of the village comprises the Whitingham Village Historic District. The CDP is in southwestern Windham County, west of the geographic center of the town of Whitingham. The community sits on a hill rising to the east above the south end of the Harriman Reservoir, an impoundment on the Deerfield River, which flows south and east to the Connecticut River in Massachusetts. Vermont Route 100 passes through the village, leading east to Jacksonville Jacksonville is a city located on the Atlantic coast of northeast Florida, the most populous city proper in the state and is the List of United States cities by area, largest city by area in the contiguous United States as of 2020. It is the co ..., the largest community in the town of Whitingham, and west t ...
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National Register Of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic value". A property listed in the National Register, or located within a National Register Historic District, may qualify for tax incentives derived from the total value of expenses incurred in preserving the property. The passage of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) in 1966 established the National Register and the process for adding properties to it. Of the more than one and a half million properties on the National Register, 95,000 are listed individually. The remainder are contributing resources within historic districts. For most of its history, the National Register has been administered by the National Park Service (NPS), an agency within the U.S. Department of the Interior. Its goals are to help property owners and inte ...
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Deerfield River
Deerfield River is a river that runs for from southern Vermont through northwestern Massachusetts to the Connecticut River. The Deerfield River was historically influential in the settlement of western Franklin County, Massachusetts, and its namesake town. It is the Connecticut River's second-longest tributary in Massachusetts, shorter than Metropolitan Springfield's Westfield River. The river's confluence with the Connecticut is in Greenfield, Massachusetts, downstream of Turners Falls (). The Deerfield is one of the most heavily dammed rivers in the country with, on average, a dam almost every for its entire length. In Shelburne Falls, the glacial potholes and the Bridge of Flowers are popular tourist attractions around the river. Geography The great descent of the river of nearly 1,100 feet over 50 miles furnished water power at many places. Several streams nearly as large as the main river enter the Deerfield River from the north. Among its tributaries is the Green Rive ...
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Harriman Reservoir
Harriman Dam is a hydroelectric dam in Windham County, Vermont in the town of Whitingham. The water from the dam flows through a penstock to a power generation plant in the adjacent town of Readsboro. The dam was built in 1923 by the New England Power Company. Some high and long as its crest, it's one of the ten hydroelectric dams impounding the Deerfield River.http://www.lowimpacthydro.org/assets/files/Deerfield%2520documents/Attachment%2520C% Owned and operated by Great River Hydro LLC it was purchased from the TransCanada Corporation in 2017. The facility is an earthen dam with a relatively unusual concrete "Ben’s glory hole" (freestanding conical drain) spillway, similar to another example at Monticello Dam Monticello Dam is a high concrete arch dam in Napa County, California, United States, constructed between 1953 and 1957. The dam impounded Putah Creek to create Lake Berryessa in the Vaca Mountains. Lake Berryessa is currently the seventh-large ... in Califor ...
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Harriman Dam
Harriman Dam is a hydroelectric dam in Windham County, Vermont in the town of Whitingham. The water from the dam flows through a penstock to a power generation plant in the adjacent town of Readsboro. The dam was built in 1923 by the New England Power Company. Some high and long as its crest, it's one of the ten hydroelectric dams impounding the Deerfield River.http://www.lowimpacthydro.org/assets/files/Deerfield%2520documents/Attachment%2520C% Owned and operated by Great River Hydro LLC it was purchased from the TransCanada Corporation in 2017. The facility is an earthen dam with a relatively unusual concrete "Ben’s glory hole" (freestanding conical drain) spillway, similar to another example at Monticello Dam Monticello Dam is a high concrete arch dam in Napa County, California, United States, constructed between 1953 and 1957. The dam impounded Putah Creek to create Lake Berryessa in the Vaca Mountains. Lake Berryessa is currently the seventh-large ... in Californ ...
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National Register Of Historic Places Listings In Windham County, Vermont
__NOTOC__ This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Windham County, Vermont. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Windham County, Vermont, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a map. There are 100 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, including 2 National Historic Landmarks. Current listings See also * List of National Historic Landmarks in Vermont * National Register of Historic Places listings in Vermont This is a list of properties on the National Register of Historic Places in the U.S. state of Vermont. Current listings by county The following are approximate tallies of current listings by county. Th ...
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Historic Districts On The National Register Of Historic Places In Vermont
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Federal Architecture In Vermont
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Greek Revival Architecture In Vermont
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National Register Of Historic Places In Windham County, Vermont
__NOTOC__ This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Windham County, Vermont. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Windham County, Vermont, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a map. There are 100 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, including 2 National Historic Landmarks. Current listings See also * List of National Historic Landmarks in Vermont * National Register of Historic Places listings in Vermont This is a list of properties on the National Register of Historic Places in the U.S. state of Vermont. Current listings by county The following are approximate tallies of current listings by county. Th ...
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