"Vermont's First College"

Rutland County · VT Route 4A in front of the town library, Castleton

On this site Castleton State College, Vermonts first college and the eighteenth oldest in the nation, was first established as the County Grammar School, chartered by the General Assembly of the Republic of Vermont on October 15, 1787. The College moved to its present campus in 1833.

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