Places
Creating the Brattleboro Words Trail Starts Here:
With Carefully Selected Sites
The Brattleboro Words Trail documents the history of writing and words in our region through community-driven, placed-based research.
Below are a few featured research sites, where community members and local classrooms are coming together to learn and create hands-on public exhibits, performances, roundtable discussions, and podcasts.
Research sites are selected based on the interests of scholars, citizens, and students, with final decisions determined by the Leadership Team. If you have an interest in a literary subject in the broad Brattleboro/Windham County area, please contact us.
Additional Research Sites
Below are other research sites currently slated for production and potential sites that could be developed. As more become available, we will link and update related pages.
Research sites are selected based on the interests of scholars, citizens, and students, with final decisions determined by the Leadership Team. If you have an interest in a literary subject in the broad Brattleboro/Windham County area, please contact us.
Photo Credit: Peter Simon
The Packer Corners Commune:
Guilford
Photo Credit: Brattleboro Reformer
Naulakha:
Kipling Road
Photo Credit: Reggie Martell
Saul Bellow’s Grave:
Morningside Cemetery, Brattleboro
Photo Credit: Brattleboro Historical Society
The Civil War Hospital at BUHS:
Fairground Road, Brattleboro
Photo Credit: Brattleboro Historical Society
The Granite Block:
Downtown Brattleboro
Photo Credit: The Crosby House
The Crosby House:
Western Avenue, Brattleboro
Photo Credit: Downtown Brattleboro Alliance
The Hooker Dunham Building:
Downtown Brattleboro
Photo Credit: Brattleboro Historical Society
Wantastiquet Mountain:
West Chesterfield, NH
Photo Credit: Wikipedia
The Lewis Grout House:
Western Avenue, Brattleboro
Photo Credit: Tasha Tudor and Family
Tasha Tudor:
Marlboro
Photo Credit: Pinterest
Brattleboro Books:
Downtown Brattleboro
Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons
The Brattleboro Post Office & Court House:
Downtown Brattleboro
Photo Credit: Natural Building Blog
The Helen & Scott Nearing House:
Jamaica
Photo Credit: J. Stephen Conn
The Municipal Center:
Downtown Brattleboro
Photo Credit: Kristopher Radder / Brattleboro Reformer
The Brattleboro Retreat & The Retreat Farm:
Downtown Brattleboro
Photo Credit: Brattleboro Historical Society
Island Park & The New England Center for Circus Arts:
Downtown Brattleboro
Photo Credit: Kopkind Colony
The Kopkind Colony:
Guilford
Photo Credit: The Brattleboro Development Credit Corporation
The Book Press:
Putney Road, Brattleboro
Photo Credit: The Latchis Hotel
The Latchis Theater:
Downtown Brattleboro
Photo Credit: Marlboro College
Marlboro College:
Marlboro
Photo Credit: Brattleboro Historical Society
Harmony Hall & E.L. Hildreth Printing:
Downtown Brattleboro
Photo Credit: Brooks Memorial Library
Brooks Memorial Library:
Downtown Brattleboro
Photo Credit: David Coolbeth
The Common Ground Restaurant & Everyone’s Books:
Downtown Brattleboro
Photo Credit: Brattleboro Reformer
The Jody Williams House & Green Street School:
Putney & Green Street, Brattleboro
Photo Credit: Kenneth Mays
Brigham Young’s Birthplace:
Whitingham
Photo Credit: Syracuse University Library
The John Humphrey Noyes House:
Putney
Photo Credit: Kristopher Radder / Brattleboro Reformer
The River Garden:
Downtown Brattleboro
Photo Credit: Brattleboro Historical Society
The American Building:
Downtown Brattleboro
Photo Credit: Pinterest
Windham College (Now Landmark College):
Putney
Photo Credit: Dennis Gilkenson
The Laura Plantz House:
Putney
Photo Credit: Donald S. Kosterman
Frederic Franklyn Van De Water:
Dummerston
Photo Credit: WCBV-TV
The Book Cellar:
Downtown Brattleboro
Photo Credit: John P. O’Grady
Frederic Van De Water:
Dummerston
Photo Credit: American Battlefield Trust
Thomas Wentworth Higginson:
Downtown Brattleboro
Photo Credit: Vermont Humanities Council
Frederick Douglass:
Downtown Brattleboro
Photo Credit: Waymarking
Deacon John Holbrook House:
Downtown Brattleboro
Photo Credit: Wikipedia
Marshall Twitchell:
Townshend
Photo Credit: Howard Weiss-Tissman / VPR
Lucy Stone & The Old Baptist Church:
Downtown Brattleboro
Photo Credit: Brattleboro Historical Society
The Mary Shiminski Overpass:
Putney Road, Brattleboro
Photo Credit: Lost New England
Larkin Mead & Wells Fountain:
Downtown Brattleboro
Photo Credit: Arthur Rothstein / Library of Congress
Booker T. Washington & The Town Hall Auditorium:
Downtown Brattleboro
Photo Credit: Rich Holschuh
The Putney Great Meadows:
Putney
Photo Credit: Kristopher Radder / Brattleboro Reformer
Bellows Falls Petroglyphs:
Bellows Falls
Photo Credit: The Brattleboro Historical Society
Fort Dummer:
Brattleboro
