Brattleboro, Vermont
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Brattleboro, originally Brattleborough, is a town in Windham County, Vermont, United States, located about 10 miles (16 km) north of the Massachusetts state line at the confluence of Vermont's West River and Connecticut. With a 2022 Census population of 12,106, it is the most populous municipality abutting Vermont's eastern border with New Hampshire, which is the Connecticut River.
Main Street
Brattleboro Retreat treats mental health disorders and drug addiction; established as Vermont Asylum for the Insane in 1834
Lithograph of Brattleboro from 1886 by L.R. Burleigh with a list of landmarks
Whetstone Falls near the intersection of Whetstone Brook and Connecticut River, 1907
Brattleboro Retreat
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The Brattleboro Retreat is a private not-for-profit mental health hospital that provides comprehensive inpatient, partial hospitalization, and outpatient treatment services for children, adolescents, and adults.
Brattleboro Retreat in 1844
Lawton Hall houses a gymnasium, theater, offices, the world's first hospital swimming pool (no longer in use), and the Mulberry Bush Day Care. The four-faced lit clock tower is meant to offer a sense of passing time to sleepless patients