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About West Rutland, Vermont 
Rutland County
*Area, Population and Density rankings refer to West Rutland's relative position among Vermont's 255 civic entities (9 cities, 242 towns, 4 gores and grants). Complete rankings are here.
The name comes from the village of West Rutland, the only village in that portion of what was then still the town of Rutland.
In the 1830's, it was discovered that West Hill was almost solid marble of very fine quality. The industry there was not profitable at first, but with the completion of the Rutland Railroad through the area in 1851, easy transportation became a reality and marble became the village's chief business, with more than two dozen companies engaged in it over the next thirty years. By and large, it was the marble people who were most interested in West Rutland separating from Rutland, so it can easily be said that marble was the moving factor in the birth of the new town, as it had been for Proctor.
In a rare reversal of environmental trends, several acres of West Rutland actually became wetland as a result of industry. Waste from the marble plants (primarily the sand used in polishing) clogged a small stream and caused it to spread out, creating a viable marsh. Each spring, local students and others participate in a cleanup of debris along the roads through the area.
Material excerpted or adapted from Esther Munroe Swift's
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Activities & Points of Interest Goings-on in and near West Rutland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Contact Info Emergency Services (Statewide): 911
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Churches, Ministries, Charitables Roman Catholic : St. Bridget |
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Schools Rutland Central Supervisory Union 802-775-4342 |
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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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