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The town was chartered in 1779 and settled in 1783 by Matthew Lyon, who established the town's first mills, and gave the land that now forms the green. The town was rural and generally agrarian in character until 1848, when the Rutland and Whitehall Railroad was built through the town on the south side of the Castleton River. The marble cutting ...
Castleton is a town in Rutland County, Vermont, United States. Castleton is about 15 miles (24 km) to the west of Rutland , the county's seat and most populous city, and about 7 miles (11 km) east of the New York/Vermont state border.
Castleton University was chartered as a grammar school in 1787, making it the oldest institution dissolved to create Vermont State University. [6] Johnson Academy was founded in 1828, later becoming Johnson State College; Vermont Technical College was founded in 1806 as Orange County Grammar School; Lyndon State College was founded in 1911 as a normal school.
The Free Public Library Service (FPLS) was one of two state library agencies in Vermont. [1] It was created in 1894 through an act of the State Legislature. [ 2 ] The act mandated the creation of a state board of library commissioners, who would offer advice to existing free public libraries. [ 3 ]
Town Hall, c. 1910 Poultney is a town in Rutland County in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Vermont. New York state is on its western border. Castleton, Vermont, is on its northern border.
Castleton-on-Hudson is a village located in the southwestern part of the town of Schodack in Rensselaer County, New York, United States. The population was 1,473 at the 2010 census. [2] The village is southeast of Albany. As of 2019, Castleton-On-Hudson was recognized as a Tree City USA from the Arbor Day Foundation.
In 2006 the American Federation of Teachers, which represents instructors at other colleges in the Vermont State Colleges system, organized a unionizing campaign.The college opposed the unionization effort partially through a mailing effort, and the majority of the faculty voted not to unionize in September 2006.
Prior to 1935, efforts to preserve cultural heritage of national importance were made by piecemeal efforts of the United States Congress.In 1935, Congress passed the Historic Sites Act, which authorized the interior secretary authority to formally record and organize historic properties, and to designate properties as having "national historical significance", and gave the National Park ...