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About Brookline, Vermont 
Windham County
*Area, Population and Density rankings above refer to Brookline's relative position among Vermont's 255 civic entities (9 cities, 242 towns, 4 gores and grants). Complete rankings are here.
Brookline was created from the southern half of Athens and a small part of Putney western side. Subsequently a little piece of Newfane that lay east of West River was added. The name comes from Grassy Brook, which rises over the line in Athens at Lily Pond and flows in an almost straight line through Brookline from north to south. The first settlers described the area where the brook rises as having been a grassy meadow when they first saw it, hence the name Grassy Brook. Throughout its course through Brookline, it lies in the bottom of a deep valley, where the mountains on either side rise as much as 1,000 feet above the valley floor. Town records show that in the early part of the 19th Century there were two stores and a hotel at the foot of Windmill Mountain, named so because of a windmill on top of the hill and which provided power to pump water for the hotel and the surrounding businesses and homes. The long ridge of Putney Mountain is only a little over 1,600 feet high, but it always has been an obstacle to travel from the east, which is why the western section of Putney was given to Brookline, and why Putney Mountain is in Brookline, rather than in Putney.
Material excerpted or adapted from Esther Munroe Swift's
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Contact Info Emergency Services (Statewide): 911
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Schools Windham Central Supervisory Union 802-348-6801 |
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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 Notes about utilities:
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