MIDDLEBURY  , a

village and the county-seat of Addison county, Vermont, U.S.A., in Middlebury township, on Otter Creek, about 31 M . N.N.W. of Rutland . Pop. of the village (189o), 1762; (1900), 1897 (221 foreign-born); (191o), 1866; of the township, (190o), 3045; (191o), 2848 . Middlebury is served by the Rutland railroad . It is picturesquely situated near the Green Mountain range, and is the seat of Middlebury College (chartered, 1800; co-educational since 1883),which offers a classical course and a Latin-scientific course, and had in 1907-1908 12 instructors and 203 students (84 of whom were women), and a library of 35,000 volumes . The Sheldon art museum and a public library are among the public institutions of the village, and the principal buildings include the court-house and the opera-house . The principal industrial establishments are marble quarries, " Italian " marble works, iron foundries, lime-kilns, flour-mills, and door, sash and lumber mills . About x m. north of the village, in the township of Weybridge, there is a large United States government breeding station for Morgan horses; and merino sheep are raised in the vicinity . The township of Middlebury was incorporated in 1761, and the first settlement on the site of the present village was made in 1773 . At the outbreak of the War of-Independence the settlement was deserted, and all except two or three of the houses were destroyed by British troops; but the settlers returned soon after the close of the war, and the township was formally organized and sent a• member to the state assembly in 1788 . Middlebury was incorporated as a borough in 1813, and as a village in 1832 .