BRATTLEBORO  , a

village of Windham county, Vermont, U.S.A., in a township (pop . 1910, 7541) of the same name, in the south-east part of the state, 6o m . N. of Springfield, Massachusetts, on the Connecticut river . Pop . (189o) 5467; (1900) 5297 (686 foreign-born); (1910) 6517 . It is served by the Central Vermont and the Boston & Maine railways . Situated in a hilly, heavily wooded country, it is an attractive place, with a few houses dating from the 18th century . Among the manufactures are toys, furniture, overalls and organs, the Estey and the Carpenter organs being made there . First settled about 1753, Brattleboro took its name from one of the original patentees, William Brattle (1702-1776), a Massachusetts loyalist . It was incorporated ten years later . See H . Burnham, Brattleboro (Brattleboro, 1880), and H .

M . Burt, The Attractions of Brattleboro, Glimpses of Past and

Present (Brattleboro, 1866) .