The East Arlington Village Historic District encompasses the historic core of a 19th-century village in
Arlington and
Sunderland, Vermont
Sunderland is a town in Bennington County, Vermont, United States. The population was 1,056 at the 2020 census. It is home to the mail-order company Orvis.
Geography
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, United States. It is centered on Old Mill Road, and developed as a mill village beginning in the 18th century. It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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in 1996.
Description and history
East Arlington is located in central eastern Arlington, a town on Vermont's western border with
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, and overlaps slightly into neighboring Sunderland. It is north of
Vermont Route 313
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and west of
United States Route 7
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, the major north–south route through western Vermont. The village was settled in the 1760s, and is one of the earliest colonial settlements in the state. Settlers were drawn by the water power provided by Peter's Branch and Warm Brook, which powered the area's industries into the early 20th century. The village was bypassed by the railroad (which runs to the west, by Arlington's central village), and its water power was relatively modest, leading to a decline in industrial activity. In the early 20th century, the Hale Company expanded operations, despite these limitations; portions of its mill complex still survive.
The historic district is organized around the village's major roadways, which are East Arlington Street and Ice Pond Road, running roughly east–west, and Warm Brook Road and Old Mill Road, which run generally north–south, with a further extension along Kansas Road into Sunderland to the east. Most of the buildings in the district are Greek Revival in style, an indication of the village's most significant period of growth (in the second quarter of the 19th century), although earlier Federal and later Italianate and Queen Anne styles are also represented. Most of these are vernacular in expression, and a number of buildings have been at least partly compromised by the application of 20th-century siding. There is no central common or open green space, a typical feature of many New England villages, and there is only one church, the 1845-48 Greek Revival Congregational Church.
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References
{{NRHP in Bennington County, Vermont
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Vermont
Greek Revival architecture in Vermont
Queen Anne architecture in Vermont
Colonial Revival architecture in Vermont
Arlington, Vermont
Sunderland, Vermont
National Register of Historic Places in Bennington County, Vermont
Historic districts in Bennington County, Vermont