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Williams River (Vermont)

Rivers of VermontRivers of Windham County, VermontRivers of Windsor County, VermontTributaries of the Connecticut River
Brockways Mills Falls 10 25 2013 10 30 59 AM
Brockways Mills Falls 10 25 2013 10 30 59 AM

The Williams River is a 27.0-mile (43.5 km) river in the US state of Vermont. It is a tributary of the Connecticut River. Its watershed covers 117 square miles; land use is about 80% forested and 4% agricultural, and the upper river supports wild brook trout and brown trout. The river was named for John Williams of Deerfield, Massachusetts. He preached the first Christian sermon in what would become Vermont near the mouth of the river on March 5, 1704. His text was from Lamentations 1:18: "Hear now, all peoples, And behold my sorrow; My virgins and my young men Have gone into captivity." A historical marker was placed near the site of the sermon in 1912 (see photo). At the time, he and part of his congregation were captives of the French, the Mohawk and the Abenaki after the Deerfield Raid, being marched from Deerfield, MA to Quebec, Canada.The Williams River rises in the northern part of the town of Andover and flows east through a corner of Ludlow and into Chester, where it turns southeast. The river then flows in a narrow valley near Vermont Route 103 between rolling hills into the town of Rockingham, where it joins the Connecticut River at Herricks Cove. Its major tributaries (from upriver to downriver) include Wheaton Brook, Lovejoy Brook, and Bear Brook in Andover and Ludlow. In Chester, it is joined by the Middle Branch Williams River, which starts in Windham; the tributaries of the Middle Branch include Lyman Brook, Andover Branch, and South Branch Williams River. Named tributaries in Rockingham include Wright Brook, Stearns Brook, Wiley Hill Brook, and Divoll Brook (flowing north), and Skunk Hollow Brook, Petty Brook, Brockways Mills Brook, Lillie Brook, Locke Brook, and O'Brien Brook (flowing south). The lower part of Petty Brook (in Bartonsville) was the mainstem of the river until a flood in 1869 changed its course. The Williams River watershed lies south of the Black River watershed, which includes most of Springfield, and north of the Saxtons River watershed. In Rockingham it is crossed by the Bartonsville Covered Bridge that was washed away in Hurricane Irene in August 2011, rebuilt in 2012, and reopened in January 2013, as well as the Worrall Covered Bridge, the only 19th century covered bridge left in town. Below those bridges, it flows over Sokoki Falls, named for the local band of the Abenaki, and through Brockways Mills Gorge. The river is a target for prospectors who can be seen panning for placer gold, south of the Town of Ludlow, near the site of the Rio Tinto open-pit talc mine.

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Windsor-1-1 Vermont Representative District, 2002–2012

The Windsor-1-1 Representative District is a one-member state Representative district in the U.S. state of Vermont. It is one of the 108 one- or two-member districts into which the state was divided by the redistricting and reapportionment plan developed by the Vermont General Assembly following the 2000 U.S. Census. The plan applies to legislatures elected in 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, and 2010. A new plan will be developed in 2012 following the 2010 U.S. Census. The Windsor-1-1 District includes all of the Windsor County towns of Andover, Baltimore, and Chester, as well as part of the town of Springfield: encompassed within a boundary beginning at the Chester-Springfield town lines at Northfield Drive, then easterly along the centerline of Northfield Drive to the intersection with Fairbanks Road, then northerly along the centerline of Fairbanks Road to the intersection with Main Street, North Springfield, then easterly along the centerline of Main Street, North Springfield to the intersection with the County Road, then northeasterly along the centerline of the County Road to the intersection with VT 106, then northwesterly along the centerline of VT 106 to the intersection with the Baltimore Road, then northwesterly along the centerline of the Baltimore Road to the Chester boundary line, then southerly along the Chester boundary line to the point of the beginning. The rest of the town of Springfield is in Windsor-1-2. As of the 2000 census, the state as a whole had a population of 608,827. As there are a total of 150 representatives, there were 4,059 residents per representative (or 8,118 residents per two representatives). The one member Windsor-1-1 District had a population of 3,912 in that same census, 3.62% below the state average.