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The CDP is in central Orange County, in the center of the town of Chelsea. It sits in the valley of the First Branch of the White River , part of the Connecticut River watershed. Vermont Route 110 runs through the village, leading north 13 miles (21 km) to East Barre and south the same distance to South Royalton .
The following are approximate tallies of current listings by county. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [3]
Location of Orange County in Vermont. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Orange County, Vermont.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Orange County, Vermont, United States.
The Chelsea Village Historic District encompasses the historic village center of Chelsea, Vermont, the shire town of Orange County.Developed in the first half of the 19th century as a regional service and transportation hub, the village exhibits a significant number of Greek Revival buildings, augmented with primarily later civic and commercial buildings.
The first small schoolhouses were established in the early 1800s. By 1845 there were 18 schools operating around the town. In 1852 the Chelsea Academy was built in the village district. The Chelsea Academy burnt in 1870. In 1913 the "new" Chelsea High School building was built, this building still houses the Chelsea Public School today. [9]
Its dominant features include the campus of the Vermont Law School on Chelsea Street, the brick Italianate line of shops between Windsor Street and the railroad tracks, and the South Royalton Green at the southwest junction of Windsor and Chelsea. At the southwestern corner of the park stands the South Royalton House, built as an inn serving ...
One (originally the home of Noah Chittenden) burned in 1885, but the one built for Martin still stands, and is one of the most magnificent and well-preserved mansions among old Vermont Houses. Herbert Congdon, in "Old Vermont Houses", calls the mansion the "Chittenden-Hasbrook House, [ 31 ] since a family named Hasbrook owned it when he wrote ...
The Mad River Valley Rural Historic District encompasses a large rural landscape in northern Waitsfield and southern Moretown, Vermont.Encompassing some 1,400 acres (570 ha) of bottom lands on either side of the Mad River, the area has seen active agricultural use since the late 18th century, and retains a number of mid-19th century farmsteads.