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Weston Village Historic District
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Weston, settled in 1761 as the West Town of Andover and incorporated in 1799, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Farrar Mansur House, built about 1795, served as a home, tavern, and community center and is now a museum of Weston’s early history. The Mill, built on the site of a 1780 sawmill, was revived as a water powered gristmill in 1936 and contains an important collection of early trade tools. Weston’s first firehouse by the millpond now houses a Concord Coach purchased in 1880 by the Weston Coronet Band and outfitted as a bandwagon. The Village Green, once a frog pond and later a dump for the local tanneries, was established in 1886 as a private park by the Vermont General Assembly and is owned by the Farrar Park Association, which consists of nine local women. Vermont’s first summer theater opened in Weston in 1936 in a remodeled church that served as the original playhouse, and after that building burned in 1962, the present Playhouse was rebuilt on the site of the church.
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