Mention "Island Pond" and most people (well, Vermonters, anyway) at the least will have heard the name, maybe even know where it is. What even Vermonters usually don't know is that Island Pond isn't a town, it's a village, er, THE village in the Town of Brighton. Nobody knows Brighton except the locals.
This used to be a thriving little place, on the Grand Trunk route between Montreal and Portland, Maine, an attractive spot for the well-to-do to put a herd of huge Victorian "summer homes." The rail line was intended as a link in a worldwide rail/steamship network, but the death of the company's leader, Charles M. Hayes aboard the Titanic, competition and the changing economic relationship between Canada and the US left this village out in the cold.
Would you believe, birthplace of Rudy Vallee?
This building was originally an Opera House. Now the Library is on the first floor, Town Offices and Hall on the second.