RUTLAND  , a

city and the county seat of Rutland county, Vermont, U.S.A., on Otter creek, about 67 m . S. by E. of Burlington . Pop . '(1900) 11,499, of whom 1533 `weee' foreign-born; (1910 census) 13,546 . Area, 81 sq. m . It• is served by the' Delaware & Hudson (being aterminus of one of its branches) and the Rutland (New York Central system) railways . It is pleasantly situated within sight of the Green Mountains . Among its public buildings and institutions are the United States Government Building, the State House of Correction, the Rutland Free Library (1886, with 17,500 volumes in 1908), the H . H . Baxter Memorial Library, a Memorial Hall; the County Court House, the City Hall, and the City Hospital . The famous Rutland marble is quarried in W . Rutland (pop. in 1910, 3427 and Proctor (pop. in t910, 2871), which were parts of the town-ship of Rutland until x886 .

In loos the value of the city's factory products was $2,522,856 (28.8% more than in 1900) . The township of Rutland was granted ' by New

Hampshire in 1761 to John Murray of Rutland, Massachusetts, and about the same time it was granted (as Fairfield) by New York . No settlement was made until 1770, and in 1772 the place was again granted by New York under the name of Socialborough: From 1784 to 1804 Rutland was one of the capitals of Vermont, and the Capitol, built in 1784, , is the second oldest , building in the state . The Rutland Herald, one of the oldest newspapers in Vermont still published, was established as a Federalist weekly in 1794•—a daily edition first appeared in 1861, and is now Republican . In 1847 the village of Rutland was incorporated, and in 1892 a portion of the township including the village was chartered as a city .