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Middlebury, Vermont Travel Guide |
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Middlebury, Vermont is replete with beautiful old Georgian and 19th-century buildings, a renowned college of high quality, a powerful creek roaring right beneath Main Street, and a pretty town green. |
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In a state of beautiful towns, Middlebury stands out as one of the prettiest. Not a village, not a city, it is of a size to offer a comfortable variety of beautiful churches, houses and civic buildings, art and crafts shops and galleries, historic inns and modern motels, restaurants and riverside cafes, all set in an area of exceptional natural beauty. Otter Creek—most of us would call it a river—flows right through the center of Middlebury, cascading over a natural break in the bedrock right below the Main St bridge. For over a century and a half it provided the water power and electricity that helped Middlebury thrive. Middlebury has the Vermont State Craft Center at Frog Hollow and the University of Vermont's Morgan Horse Farm., as well as highly-regarded Middlebury College. Poet Robert Frost's participation in the Breadloaf Writers' Conference (held in Middlebury's mountain campus close to nearby Ripton) spread the college's reputation even further. Robert Frost wasn't the only person of renown to tramp the streets of Middlebury. A man named John Deere was an apprentice here from 1821 to 1825, after which he moved to Illinois and invented the world's first steel moldboard plow, "The plow that broke the plains," making his name a household word in farms across the nation. Several highways converge at Middlebury, including US 7, and Vermont routes 23, 30 and 125. |
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Main Street, Middlebury VT.
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