Vermont’s first rural historic district honors the agricultural history of the fertile Otter Creek valley south of Wallingford. Extending south on Route 7 for 3½ miles, the thematic study area includes 14 farmsteads, 5 of which were historically associated with the Munson family. Many of the 19th-century houses exhibit fine rural Vermont expressions of Federal and Greek Revival design. Eclectic agrarian buildings document the dominant 19th-century trends in agriculture and dairy, including English, monitor, and dairy barns. Architect Clinton G. Smith’s 1888 work on the Israel Munson dairy barn resulted in one of Vermont’s most notable agricultural buildings.