Map Intro
Brattleboro Words Trail Map
Brattleboro Words Trail Map

Printed copies, featuring regional and downtown Brattleboro maps based on the Words Project murals, are your perfect companion while exploring America's most storied small town. Download a copy below, or find one in town.

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Words Trail Downtown Map
Words Trail Downtown Map

Free printed maps are available at 118 Elliot, Brooks Memorial Library, Downtown Brattleboro Alliance offices at 63 Main Street, and the Brattleboro Area Chamber of Commerce. They can also be downloaded and printed below.

Words Trail Downtown Map
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Words Trail Regional Map
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Map Details
MAP TRAIL SITES
Brattleboro

Historic Downtown Center
Downtown Brattleboro is the core historic area with 22 sites, from Nobel Peace Laureate Jody Williams school and Dr. Wesselhoeft’s ‘Water-cure’ where writers revived, to Frederick Douglass’ first speech on the assassination of Lincoln, Rudyard Kipling’s favorite watering hole, the offices of early suffragette and newspaper editor Clarina Howard Nichols, mystery writer Archer Mayor, ancient Persian poet Rumi, and the Commons where townspeople shouted down visiting KKK .

  1. Brooks Memorial Library / William Czar Bradley II
  2. Brattleboro Fire Station / Wesselhoeft Water-Cure
  3. Brattleboro Municipal Center / Archer Mayor
  4. Brattleboro Post Office / Judge James L. Oakes
  5. The Commons newspaper - 139 Main Street
  6. Stephen Greene Press - 120 Main Street
  7. T.P. James - 23 Elliot Street
  8. Rumi - Threshold Publishing - 139 Main Street
  9. Brooks House / Rudyard Kipling
  10. Royal Tyler and Mary Palmer Tyler - 10 Park Place
  11. New England Youth Theater - 100 Flat Street
  1. Latchis Hotel and Theatre - 50 Main Street
  2. Kyle Gilbert Bridge - 2 Main Street
  3. Holstein Association
  4. Harmony Lot / E.L. Hildreth Printing Company
  5. Benjamin Smead - 139 Main Street
  6. Brattleboro Reformer, Vermont Printing Company, Stephen Daye Press - 63-73 American Building
  7. Mary Wilkins Freeman - Tyler Street
  8. KKK Rebuke - Brattleboro Town Common
  9. Frederick Douglass - Old Town Hall
  10. Everyone’s Books - 25 Elliot
  11. Clarina Howard Nichols - 113 Main

North of Downtown
Nine sites including submerged native petroglyphs, Retreat Farm, Harris HIll Ski Jump, early Abenaki voices, the Brattleboro Retreat early patient newspaper and the Retreat Tower, and the Book Press, where the first Harry Potter US edition was printed, among many other books, a nice bike ride from the center of town.

  1. Retreat Farm and Meadows
  2. Gypsy Grounds
  3. Harris Hill Ski Jump
  4. Retreat Tower
  5. The Marina / Elizabeth Flourette Fisher
  6. BDCC Business Park / The Book Press
  7. West River Petroglyphs
  8. Brattleboro Retreat / Asylum Journal
  9. Brattleboro Reformer / Norm Runnion
  10. Fort Hill, NH

South of Downtown
Six sites including the grave of Saul Bellow, Nobel Literature Laureate and one of the world’s most famous writers, and another Nobel Peace Laureate, Wangari Maathai.

  1. Fort Dummer
  2. BUHS / Fairgrounds
  3. Morningside Cemetery / Saul Bellow - Nobel Literature Laureate
  4. Elizabeth Thompson - Brattleboro Memorial Hospital
  5. Oak Grove School / Wangari Maathai,Nobel Peace Laureate

East of Downtown
Six sites including a hike over 'Anna Hunt March' bridge ( thank her for Brattleboro Retreat and preservation of Mt. Wantastiquet!), native interpretations of Connecticut River, Karl Marx’s US editor, Thoreau and others...

  1. Kwenitekw / The Long Story of Connecticut River
  2. Anna Hunt Marsh Bridge
  3. Old Island Park - Circus Capital
  4. Charles Dana Bridge - Brattleboro Road to Hinsdale
  5. Wantastiquet Mountain - The One Constant
  6. Henry David Thoreau - Climbing Wantastiquet

West of Downtown
Five sites including Jacob Estey’s Estey Organ Factory, and Chestnut Hill, a great walk, about 10 blocks from town center at Main & High Streets.

  1. Green Street School plaque / Jody Williams - Nobel Peace Laureate
  2. George Crowell - Crowell Park / and ‘The Household’
  3. Marion McCune Rice - WW1 Nurse
  4. Howard C. Rice & Family - Long-time publishers of the daily Brattleboro Reformer
  5. Estey Organ Company
  6. Nye Ffarrabas - CX Silver Gallery Press
The Region

Putney, Newfane, Marlboro, Guilford

  1. Lucy Terry Prince - first known African American poet
  2. William Czar Bradley - Prominent political leader & lawyer
  3. William Apess - wrote first Native American autobiography
  4. Tom Bodett - author and radio personality
  5. Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone
  6. Castle Freeman - author
  7. Chuck Collins - Guilford Mineral Springs Farm
  8. John Humphrey Noyes
  9. Madame Sherri
  10. John Irving
  11. Norm Runnion - Brattleboro Reformer
  12. Daisy Turner
  13. Eleanor Roosevelt / Carmelita Hinton
  14. Mimi Morton - Guilford Free Library
  15. Robert Flaherty - "Father" of documentary film
  16. Royall Tyler & Mary Palmer Tyler - Guilford
  17. Donald Watt -School for International Training & Experiment in International Living
  18. Rev. Lewis Grout
  19. Robert Penn Warren
  20. Harper Lee
  21. Senator George Aiken
  22. Arthur Goodenough - poet & farmer
  1. Samuel Gale - first printing press in VT
  2. Jesse Haas - author
  3. Packer Corners
  4. Tasha Tudor
  5. HP Lovecraft
  6. John Kenneth Galbraith - author & ambassador
  7. Station Master JJ Green
  8. Benjamin Wheaton
  9. Marshall Twitchell
  10. Legend of Thunderbolt
  11. Hugh Mulligan
  12. Robert Frost
  13. Andrew Kopkind
  14. Gordon & Mary Hayward
  15. Sandglass Theater
  16. William Mundell
  17. Fort Hill Trail
  18. The Petroglyphs at Ktsipôntekw -Bellows Falls
  19. Frederic Van de Water
  20. Scott and Helen Nearing
  21. Brigham Young

Map Intro
Brattleboro Words Trail Map
Brattleboro Words Trail Map

Printed copies, featuring regional and downtown Brattleboro maps based on the Words Project murals, are your perfect companion while exploring America's most storied small town. Download a copy below, or find one in town.

Words Trail using map