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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 10 miles north of the Massachusetts state line, at the confluence of Vermont's West River and the Connecticut. In 2014, Brattleboro's population was estimated by the U.S. Census Bureau to be 11,765.Marlboro College Center for Graduate and Professional Studies and SIT Graduate Institute are located in the town. There are satellite campuses of three colleges as well: Community College of Vermont, Union Institute and Un...
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  • 2. Fort Dummer State Park Brattleboro
    Fort Dummer was a British fort built in 1724 during Dummer's War by the colonial militia of the Province of Massachusetts Bay under the command of Lieutenant Timothy Dwight in what is now the Town of Brattleboro in southeastern Vermont. The fort was the first permanent European settlement in Vermont. It consisted of a 180-square foot wooden stockade near 42.8309°N 72.5504°W / 42.8309; -72.5504, with 12 guns manned by 55 men . Near the former site of the fort is a granite monument one mile south of the Brattleboro railway station. The fort was named after Lieutenant Governor William Dummer, who was acting governor of Massachusetts at the time of the fort's construction. On October 11, 1724, seventy Abenakis attacked Fort Dummer and killed 3 or 4 soldiers.
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