Maps - Brattleboro Words Project

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Brattleboro

Historic Downtown Center
Downtown Brattleboro is the core historic area with 22 sites, from Nobel Peace Laureate Jody Williams school and Dr. Wesselhoeft’s ‘Water-cure’ where writers revived, to Frederick Douglass’ first speech on the assassination of Lincoln, Rudyard Kipling’s favorite watering hole, the offices of early suffragette and newspaper editor Clarina Howard Nichols, mystery writer Archer Mayor, ancient Persian poet Rumi, and the Commons where townspeople shouted down visiting KKK .

North of Downtown
Nine sites including submerged native petroglyphs, Retreat Farm, Harris HIll Ski Jump, early Abenaki voices, the Brattleboro Retreat early patient newspaper and the Retreat Tower, and the Book Press, where the first Harry Potter US edition was printed, among many other books, a nice bike ride from the center of town.

South of Downtown
Six sites including the grave of Saul Bellow, Nobel Literature Laureate and one of the world’s most famous writers, and another Nobel Peace Laureate, Wangari Maathai.

East of Downtown
Six sites including a hike over 'Anna Hunt March' bridge ( thank her for Brattleboro Retreat and preservation of Mt. Wantastiquet!), native interpretations of Connecticut River, Karl Marx’s US editor, Thoreau and others...

West of Downtown
Five sites including Jacob Estey’s Estey Organ Factory, and Chestnut Hill, a great walk, about 10 blocks from town center at Main & High Streets.

The Region

Putney, Newfane, Marlboro, Guilford

Map Intro

Brattleboro Words Trail Map

Printed copies, featuring regional and downtown Brattleboro maps based on the Words Project murals, are your perfect companion while exploring America's most storied small town. Download a copy below, or find one in town.