Bellows Falls is an incorporated village located in the town of Rockingham in Windham County,Vermont,United States. The population was 2,747 at the 2020 census. Bellows Falls is home to the Green Mountain Railroad,a heritage railroad;the annual Roots on the River Festival;and the No Film Film Festival.
Rockingham is a town along the Connecticut River in Windham County,Vermont,United States. As of the 2020 census,the population was 4,832. Rockingham includes the incorporated villages of Bellows Falls and Saxtons River,as well as a large rural area west of Interstate 91.
John Stewart Barry was the fourth and eighth governor of Michigan. He was Michigan's only three-term governor in the 19th century. His main accomplishment was to rationalize state finances after the state's internal improvements fiasco.
Philip Henderson Hoff was an American politician from the U.S. state of Vermont. He was most notable for his service as the 73rd governor of Vermont from 1963 to 1969,the state's first Democratic governor since 1853.
Thomas Talbot was an American textile mill owner and politician from Massachusetts,United States. Talbot ran a major textile business,involving chemical dyeworks and the weaving of fabric,in Billerica that was a major local employer. As a Republican,he served in the state legislature,on the Massachusetts Governor's Council,and as the 29th lieutenant governor before serving for one partial term as acting governor of Massachusetts,and later for one full term as the 31st governor.
Robert Theodore Stafford was an American politician from Vermont. In his lengthy political career,he served as the 71st governor of Vermont,a United States representative,and a U.S. Senator. A Republican,Stafford was generally considered a liberal,or "Rockefeller Republican".
Erastus Fairbanks was an American manufacturer,Whig politician,a founder of the Republican Party,and the 21st and 26th governor of Vermont.
John Wolcott Stewart was an American lawyer and politician from Vermont. He served as Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives and as the 33rd governor of Vermont before serving in the United States House of Representatives and briefly in the U.S. Senate.
Deane Chandler Davis was an American attorney and insurance executive from Vermont. Long active in Republican politics,he is most notable for his service as the 74th governor of Vermont from 1969 to 1973.
Roswell Farnham was an American politician of the Republican Party,an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War,a lawyer,and the 38th governor of Vermont.
Thomas M. Salmon is an American politician who was Vermont Auditor of Accounts from 2007 to 2013. He did not run for reelection in 2012,and was succeeded by Democrat/Progressive Douglas R. Hoffer. He was elected in 2006 as a Democrat and then became a Republican in 2009.
Nathan Matthews Jr. was an American politician from Massachusetts who served as mayor of Boston from 1891 to 1894.
Bellows Falls station is an Amtrak intercity rail station located in the Bellows Falls village of Rockingham,Vermont,United States. The station is served by the single daily round trip of the Washington,D.C.–St. Albans Vermonter. It has a single side platform adjacent to the single track of the New England Central Railroad mainline.
Thomas L. Hayes was the 71st lieutenant governor of Vermont and a Vermont Supreme Court Justice. He was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1985 by then-Governor Madeleine M. Kunin.
Charles Henry Robb was an American lawyer from Vermont and Washington,DC. He was most notable for his service as an Associate Justice of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
The Bellows Falls Arch Bridge was a three-hinged steel through arch bridge over the Connecticut River between Bellows Falls,Vermont and North Walpole,New Hampshire. It was structurally significant as the longest arch bridge in the United States when it was completed in 1905.
Frederick H. Babbitt was a Vermont businessman and politician who served as President of the Vermont State Senate.
Wynn Thomas Underwood was an American attorney,political figure,and judge from Vermont. He twice served as a member of the Vermont House of Representatives,and served as an associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court from 1980 to 1985.
Charles N. Davenport was an American attorney,businessman,and political candidate from Vermont. A Democrat during the American Civil War and post-war era when Republicans won every election for statewide office,Davenport was an unsuccessful candidate for offices including governor and U.S. representative. He was a delegate to many local,state,and county Democratic conventions,and was the founder of the Brattleboro Reformer newspaper.
