Welcome to Brattleboro Vermont!
THE VALLEY ADVOCATE DUBS DOWNTOWN BRATTLEBORO
"Best Tourist Spot in Southern Vermont"
Excerpted from the Valley Advocate BEST OF 2008 issue, April 17, 2008
 "... Brattleboro has theater, music and art. In fact it was named one of the top ten "art towns" with populations less than 30,000 in the book "The 100 Best Art Towns in America" by John Villani."
"This puts Brattleboro in a group with Santa Fe," notes Jerry Goldberg, Executive Director of the Brattleboro Area Chamber."
"You can visit a bookstore or crafts store with wares that are carefully chosen, not just unloaded from a chain distirbutor's truck. You can visit the Estey Organ Museum, a survivor of the prestigious Estey organ factory. You can cap off your day with a bite and some live music, then curl up with the book you discovered earlier... "
For complete story read the, Advocate article.
Nestled between the West and Connecticut Rivers, Brattleboro and the surrounding villages, provide visitors with an extraordinary variety of indoor & outdoor activities, arts & entertainment, and of course shopping! We're also a regional center for commerce, finance and technology.
Brattleboro is a unique town that is best savored slowly. This region hosts some of the best small inns and bed and breakfasts in the state, so stay a while and explore. Take some time to visit our theaters, art galleries, music centers and museums.
We're glad you're here, and whatever you're looking for is only a click or two away.
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In this collection of brief, most readable essays, author and historian Wayne Carhart provides the historial perspective on how Brattleboro can to be the town it is. Carhart covers the impact on Brattleboro's development by industry, the railroad, illuminating gas, electricity, the telephone, the trolley and the automobile. 
