BARRE  , a

city of Washington county, Vermont, U.S.A., in the north central part of the state, about 6 m . S.E. of Montpelier . Pop . (1890) 4146; (1900) 8448, of whom 2831 were foreign-born; (1910, census) 10,734 . It is served by the Central Vermont and the Montpelier & Wells River railways, and is connected by electric street railways with Montpelier . Barre is an important seat of the granite industry, and manufactures monuments and tombstones, stone-cutting implements and other machinery . In 1905 the city's factory products were valued at $3,373,046, of which 86.9 % was the value of the monuments and tombstones manufactured . Among its institutions are the Aldrich public library and Goddard Seminary (187o; Universalist) . There is a beautiful granite statue of Burns (by J . Massey Rhind), erected in 1899 by the Scotsmen of Barre . The water-works are owned and operated by the municipality . Settled soon after the close of the War of Independence, the township of Barre (pop. in 191o, 4194) was organized in 1793 and named in honour of Isaac Barre (1726–1802), a defender of American rights in the British parliament .

The

present city, chartered in 1894, was originally a part of the township .