Proctor-Piper State Forest

Proctor Piper State Forest covers 1,513 acres in Cavendish, Vermont in Windsor County. The forest is managed by the Vermont Department of Forests, Parks, and Recreation. Activities in the forest include hunting and snowmobiling.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Pollard Block and Glimmerstone.

Pollard Block

Heritage site

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The Pollard Block is a historic commercial building at 7 Depot Street in Cavendish, Vermont. Built in 1895, it is a fine local example of commercial Italianate architecture, and was home to the village general store for 70 years.

Glimmerstone

Heritage site

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Glimmerstone is a historic mansion house on Vermont Route 131, west of the village center of Cavendish, Vermont. Built 1844–47, it is a distinctive example of Gothic Revival architecture, built using a regional construction style called "snecked ashlar" out of locally quarried stone flecked with mica.

Spaulding Bridge

Bridge

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The Spaulding Bridge is a historic Parker pony truss bridge carrying Mill Street across the Black River in Cavendish, Vermont. Built in 1905, it is one of the state's few surviving examples of a metal truss bridge built before state aid and standardization of bridge types became widespread in Vermont.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Proctorsville and Cavendish.

Proctorsville

Hamlet

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Proctorsville is a census-designated place in the town of Cavendish, Windsor County, Vermont, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population of the CDP was 454.

Cavendish

Village

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Cavendish is a census-designated place, the central village of the town of Cavendish, Windsor County, Vermont, United States. Until the mid–nineteenth century it was known as Duttonsville.