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Otter Creek is the longest river entirely contained within the borders of Vermont. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Roughly 112 miles (180 km) long, it is the primary watercourse running through Rutland County and Addison County .
The Rural Otter Creek Valley Historic District encompasses a rural agricultural area of southern Wallingford, Vermont.It includes nine past and present farmsteads along a stretch of United States Route 7 in the Otter Creek valley, with an agricultural history dating to the early decades of the 19th century.
Location of Rutland County in Vermont. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Rutland County, Vermont. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Rutland County, Vermont, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for ...
Wallingford is a small agricultural community in the Otter Creek valley of central Vermont, 10 miles (16 km) south of Rutland. It was settled in the 1770s, with its main village established on Roaring Brook, a tributary of Otter Creek. It developed as an agricultural area, and as a stop on the north–south stagecoach route, now US 7.
The Gorham Covered Bridge carries Gorham Bridge Road across Otter Creek in a rural area of Pittsford and Proctor, Vermont.It is a Town lattice truss bridge, built in 1841 by Abraham Owen and Nicholas M. Powers, the latter in the early stages of his career as a well-known bridgewright.
The Fox–Cook Farm is a historic farm property on Cook Drive in Wallingford, Vermont. Established in the 1790s, it is one of the oldest surviving farmsteads in the Otter Creek valley south of Wallingford village. It includes a c. 1800 Cape style farmhouse and a c. 1850 barn, among other outbuildings.
One of the major businesses, founded in 1807, was the Monkton Iron Works, which became one of the nation's largest early 19th-century iron foundries. It became a critical factor in the War of 1812, when Vergennes, with ready access to Lake Champlain via Otter Creek, served as a military base.
The area that is now the town of Pittsford was first permanently settled by colonists in 1769, and the area that is now its village center began to take shape around 1795, with the opening of a tavern, the founding by Israel Keith of an iron foundry nearby, and the establishment of a marble quarry by Jeremiah Sheldon across Otter Creek to the west.