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About Barre, Vermont 
Washington County
*Area, Population and Density rankings refer to Barre's relative position among Vermont's 255 civic entities (9 cities, 242 towns, 4 gores and grants). Complete rankings are here.
Pronunciation: Rhymes with "carry."
Originally the village of Barre within Barre Town until the Legislature made the division. Information on the naming of Barre is here.
Three brooks came together in a single valley, supplying power for settlers' gristmills and sawmills and, later on, the granite sheds and other manufacturers. Along these streams, four villages grew up as separate entities:
Thwingsville, derived from James Thwing and his seventeen children, whose descendants became prominent in business and politics. In the early 1800's, Joshua Thwing established an iron foundry around which the village grew;
Gospel Village was a cluster of houses around a church;
Factory Village was in the vicinity of several tin manufacturing plants; and
Jockey Hollow was the site of a fairground, trotting park, stables and the other hangouts of the sporting element.
Although the separate village identities have long since disappeared into the city, you can still hear old-timers using them as area designations.
Barre is the center of Vermont's granite industry, home to the Rock of Ages quarries.
Material excerpted or adapted from Esther Munroe Swift's
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Contact Info Emergency Services (Statewide): 911
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Churches, Ministries, Charitables Assemblies of God : New Life Assembly 802-479-9867 |
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Schools Barre Supervisory Union 802-476-5011 |
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This is a basic geographic reference, intended to show relative location of adjacent towns. Directional accuracy is limited to 16 compass points. There isn't even the slightest suggestion that one can necessarily travel directly from one town to the next (as in "You can't get there from here").
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Utilities
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