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The Dorset Village Historic District encompasses a significant portion of the village center of Dorset, Vermont.Centered at the junction of Church Street, Kent Hill Road, and Vermont Route 30, the village was developed between the late 18th and early 20th centuries, and has a number of well-preserved unusual features, including sidewalks of marble from local quarries.
Dorset is famous for being the location of Cephas Kent's Inn, where four meetings of the Convention that signed the Dorset Accords led to the independent Vermont Republic and future statehood. Dorset is the site of America's oldest marble quarry and is the birthplace of Bill W., co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous.
Dorset Mountain is home to the largest underground marble quarry in the world. The quarry is entered through the same opening that has been in use for over 100 years. The mine is 1 ½ miles deep, and this is where Danby marble is quarried. Vermont Quarries Corporation took over the production and operation of the famous Danby Marble quarry in 1992.
A 1.5-mile path rims Fidler Pond, a former quarry in Goshen, where a triathlon and swim race will be held Aug. 10, 2024. JOSEPH DITS, SOUTH BEND TRIBUNE Rock the Quarry Triathlon and Mile Swim
Emerald Lake State Park is a 430-acre (170 ha) state park in the town of Dorset, Vermont, United States, 3 miles (5 km) north of the village of East Dorset, the park's mailing address. It is the home of 20-acre (8.1 ha) Emerald Lake, called such because of its emerald color .
The building was constructed and opened as a hotel in 1852 in the small Vermont marble quarry village. The owners were the Griffith family when William (Bill) Griffith Wilson was born on November 26, 1895, on the ground floor behind the bar of the hotel during a snow storm. After two years he moved to Rutland until the divorce of his parents ...
Dorset is the primary settlement and a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Dorset, Bennington County, Vermont, United States. As of the 2020 census , the CDP had a population of 360, [ 2 ] out of 2,133 in the entire town.
Long Trail School has drawn students from over 38 towns in Vermont and neighboring New York state, and from 20 foreign countries. As of May 14, 2010, Long Trail School is the first school in Vermont to be officially inducted as an International Baccalaureate school.