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BRATTLEBORO â Question: What possibly could electric bikes and the Brooks Memorial Library have in common? Answer: Itâs the Brattleboro E-Bike Lending Library and itâs coming to the library Friday.
The Brattleboro E-Bike Lending Library is an innovative effort in collaboration with the Brooks Memorial Library to provide area residents an opportunity to take home an e-bike for five full days and get a real-world sense of how an electric bicycle can fit into their lives. This project is made possible by Local Motion through a VTrans grant and is locally coordinated by VBike, Brattleboro Energy Committee, Brattleboroâs Sustainability Office and Brattleboro Time Trade. Local Motionâs funding paid for two great bikes, bike accessories, a reservation platform, and insurance coverage.
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BRATTLEBORO â Brattleboroâs first meeting house was located off present day Orchard Street and was built around 1768. The area is now known as Meeting House Hill. There is a cemetery there and a marker establishing where the first meeting house was built. While Meeting House Hill was the geographic center of Brattleboro, it did not turn out to be a convenient location to establish the main meeting house for the town.
In March 1781, a town meeting was held at the meeting house and Brattleboro citizens voted to join the newly formed Vermont Republic. Vermont had written a constitution and declared its independence in 1777 but Brattleboro was one of the southeastern towns that initially remained loyal to New York.