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- Poultney is a town that evolved from the frontier into a trading center…a town shaped by farming and quarrying, by tourism and teaching. More than three-quarters of the buildings in the Downtown Historic District are considered historically intact – they’ve stood through the eras that define this town.
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Poultney is a town that evolved from the frontier into a trading center…a town shaped by farming and quarrying, by tourism and teaching. More than three-quarters of the buildings in the Downtown Historic District are considered historically intact – they’ve stood through the eras that define this town.
Poultney is a very historic community that has retained many of its original buildings. The Town’s housing stock is among the oldest in the county. Fifty percent of Poultney’s residences were built before 1939, according to the US Census.
The Poultney Vermont Historical Society, a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization founded in 1935, preserves and interprets the history of the Town of Poultney.
The East Poultney Historic District and the Poultney Village Historic District are both listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Among historical buildings located there are the Union Academy dating to 1791, the Melodeon Factory built in 1840, and the 1896 Victorian school house.
Historic Poultney. Poultney (population 3,633) is located on the Vermont-New York border in the Lakes Region of Rutland County. Founded in 1761, initial growth centered around a grist mill in East Poultney, while the 19th century saw the emergence of West Poultney as the center of town.
The Poultney Main Street Historic District encompasses the commercial and residential historic core of the village of Poultney, Vermont. Centered on Main Street and East Main Street, between College Avenue and St. Raphael's Catholic Church, the district includes a diversity of architectural styles, as well as civic, religious, and commercial ...
- June 2, 1988
- Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals, Greek Revival, Late Victorian
- Towne, William; Et al.
- 30 acres (12 ha)
- Prehistoric Poultney
- Agriculture
- Colonial Times to Independence
- Independent Republic and Early Statehood
- Melodeon Manufacturing
- The Rise of The Village and Downtown Poultney
- The Slate Industry
Before the Governor of New Hampshire, Benning Wentworth, approved the land grant that established the township of Poultney on September 21, 1761, the town of Poultney did not exist. The land that now makes up Poultney, however, has been inhabited for almost 10,500 years. The indigenous people who lived here before the arrival of Europeans did not r...
From the History of Poultney: “Prior to 1825, the farms were not large; from 50 to 100 acres seemed to satisfy nearly all, though a few owned a larger quantity. The lands were then cultivated with far less care and labor than now; yet they produced bountifully. The vegetable mould which had been accumulating for ages from the forests recently cut a...
Poultney was chartered in 1761 when Royal Governor Benning Wentworth, in the name of King George the Third, granted 61 proprietors equal shares in a township six miles square “for the due encouragement of settling a new plantation within Our said Province (of New Hampshire).” Governor Wentworth had made 16 of these “New Hampshire Grants” in what is...
After the battles of Hubbardton and Bennington, Poultney citizens returned to their homes. William Ward represented Poultney at the first Vermont General Assembly in March, 1778. At the town meeting of 1780, it was voted to erect a “meeting house” opposite the entrance to the cemetery, which had been established in 1775. This building was used join...
In 1856 the town of East Poultney contained one of the largest companies exclusively producing melodeons outside of New York or Boston. The original firm of Ross & West was established in the spring of 1849 by Paul M. Ross (1800-1870) and Elijah West in a brick building formerly used as a blacksmith’s shop. At first they produced only the casework ...
The 19th century saw the emergence of West Poultney as the center of town. The construction of Green Mountain College, Route 30 and later the railroad from Rutland to Albany assured the rise of the village and downtown area. The last half the 19th century was a period of economic growth for Poultney spearheading a rise in the town’s population from...
The slate industry transformed Poultney in the last half of the 19th century. An agrarian community populated principally by Yankees became an industrialized town enriched by a diverse group of immigrants. Allegedly, the slate industry was due to an accidental event. According to an old story, around 1843, a farmer was showing his land to a prospec...
