Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Its Register listings are the Round Schoolhouse, the Bridge 19 and the Brookline Baptist Church. Below: 5 old photos and papers, maps from 1930 on, and the census since 1800.
The Brookline post office opened in 1837, the earliest record of the town by name.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Lost two-thirds of its people between 1800 and 1930, then grew 5-fold.
23 censuses, 1800–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Brookline’s Wikipedia page.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
BuiltRound Schoolhouse is built
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
In the archiveGathering hay on the farm of Emanuel Rink, dairy farmer near Brookline, VermontWikipedia doesn’t have a history of Brookline yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Brookline is a town in Windham County, Vermont, United States. The population was 540 at the 2020 census.
Its first post office opened in 1837. Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 530 in 2010, 540 in 2020.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
One decade in the archive so far: the 1940s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Brookline. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Brookline.
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Brookline’s page.
Retake this view · +15The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Nobody well known was born in Brookline itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Brookline had its own post office from 1837 to 1907.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Brookline post office opened in 1837, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
Three places: the Round Schoolhouse (listed 1977), the Bridge 19 (2007) and the Brookline Baptist Church (2021).
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →
From the Library of Congress (5), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (3), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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