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Fletcher is located in southern Franklin County, bordered to the southeast by Lamoille County.According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 38.0 square miles (98.4 km 2), of which 37.7 square miles (97.7 km 2) is land and 0.3 square miles (0.7 km 2), or 0.71%, is water. [4]
The Fletcher Free Library is the public library serving Burlington, Vermont. It is located at 235 College Street, in an architecturally distinguished Beaux-Arts building, constructed in 1902 with funding support from Andrew Carnegie. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. [1]
The Fletcher Union Church, also known as the Fletcher Community House, is a historic former church building on TH 1 (Cambridge Road) in Fletcher, Vermont.Built in 1871, it is one of only a few public buildings in the small community, and has for over a century been a secular community meeting space.
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Fletcher was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, on September 25, 1853. [1] The son of a successful banker whose family was originally from Proctorsville, Vermont, he was educated at Willston Seminary in East Hampton, Massachusetts, and became a banker and businessman with homes in Indianapolis and New York City.
The 1857 Vermont gubernatorial election for governor of Vermont was held on Tuesday, September 1. [1] In keeping with the " Mountain Rule ", incumbent Republican Ryland Fletcher was a candidate for a second one-year term.
Fletcher named the hospital, which opened in 1879, after her mother, Mary L. Fletcher. It was the largest hospital in Vermont and the first public hospital in the state. In 1882, the Mary Fletcher Training School for Nurses was established there. [2] In addition, Fletcher endowed Burlington's Fletcher Free Library, which is named after her ...