Arlington tourist information
Arlington is located in Reno County between two branches of the gentle Ninnescah River. The Southern Pacific Railroad tracks and K 61 run side-by-side through town, connecting Hutchinson and Pratt.
The site of Arlington was first settled about 1877 and the heights overlooking the Ninnescah valley were named for Arlington, Massachusetts. The city was chartered in 1887.
Arlington, founded over 350 years ago, remains proud of its history, even as it has grown into a thoroughly modern community. The birthplace of Uncle Sam, the location of the first public children's library, and the site of most of the fighting when the British marched through it returning from the Old North Bridge at the start of the Revolutionary War, Arlington has preserved many of its historical buildings and even recreated its town common. Once a thriving agriculture and mill town, Arlington's excellent access to metropolitan Boston has made it a very desirable place to live. Its diverse population has demanded good schools and recreation facilities which has made it attractive to families. Commercial development centers along Massachusetts Avenue which traverses the Mill Brook valley.
Residences are located on the flat former agricultural land in East Arlington or on the slopes on either side of the east-west "Mass Ave" corridor. Townspeople have recently instituted a visioning process to articulate the community's goals as it continues to adapt to ever changing times. Population diversity, education, business, care for the environment, encouragement of culture, and citizen involvement have been reaffirmed.
Eastern Massachusetts, bordered by Winchester on the north, Medford and Somerville on the east, Cambridge and Belmont on the south, and Lexington on the west. Arlington is 6 miles west of Boston, 19 miles south of Lowell, 39 miles east of Fitchburg, and 200 miles from New York City.
Arlington is fun for people of all ages, and it is also a bargain for travelers on a budget. Below is a list of attractions and activities that makes Arlington a real advantage for the traveler who wants the best for less.
Arlington is well known for its conference hotels and convention facilities, especially the Arlington Convention Center. The Center has 48,600 square feet of column-free exhibit space and 8,500 square feet of meeting rooms. The jewel in the crown of the Arlington Convention Center is a 30,000 square foot Grand Hall featuring an additional pre-function gallery and outdoor terraces overlooking The Ballpark in Arlington. Add The Ballpark in Arlington, and planners have a host of unique meeting venues in a city filled with special sites.
The Ballpark offers space for both indoor and outdoor events all year long. Two game suites are available; the Children's Learning Center, which opened in 1995, houses a 250-seat auditorium above the Legends of the Game Baseball Museum, which is also a fun reception venue for several hundred; the Diamond Club is just the right place for a luncheon or reception; and outdoor receptions and special events can be held behind center field or in the concourse. Another ballpark venue is the Grand Slam Gallery at Friday's Front Row Grill. Located in the upper deck of Home Run Porch in right field, the gallery holds up to 50 people and is available all year long.
Six Flags Over Texas can host private parties, theme parties, meetings, trade shows, and spouse, guest and youth programs. The 205-acre park can handle groups from 200-20,000. Hurricane Harbor (formerly Wet 'n Wild) can also accommodate groups large and small, from private parties to company picnics to large receptions. If visual or performing arts are your interests, Arlington offers several locales. The Arlington Museum of Art can host up to 500 in its lower gallery and up to 200 in the upper mezzanine. Theatre Arlington can host groups up to 75 with cabaret seating in the lobby or 200 in the theatre, and Creative Arts Theatre School (CATS) can host 400 for a show or 400+ people for a group event by utilizing the theatre and three dance studios. (CATS has already hosted several weddings where the nuptials took place on stage!) Johnnie High's Country Music Revue can seat 1,200 in the theatre, which has a stage, sound system, dressing rooms, and adjoining meeting room.
For receptions under the stars, Arlington has three excellent park locations. Veterans Park, with its bandshell, can host 500 people for concerts and events; Stonewall Park can host 150 in its pavilion, complete with fireplace, for an intimate event with a guest speaker; and Arlington's premier park, River Legacy Parks, can host up to 1,000 using the Legacy Pavilion and surrounding grounds. For a room with a view, Lake Arlington's Lake Room offers a facility overlooking the northeast shore of the lake that comfortably hosts 80 people. A fireplace adds a friendly touch.
For star-studded music events, try a private affair at Cowboy's, Arlington's country night spot. This country and western club has 42,000 square feet and can host 4,000 people for parties, receptions, concerts and other events. Groups can also arrange to have private dance lessons for groups large and small.
For a historical touch, try meeting at the Fielder Museum. Built as a family homestead in 1914 by Arlington attorney James Park Fielder, the museum can comfortably host about 80 people. Groups can use the landscaped museum grounds for larger events with several hundred people.
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Arlington offers a variety of activities which can satisfy anyone's need for amusement. Find out about where you can join a team or where you can go ice skating. Find out how many parks Arlington has and where you might want to picnic. Whether you like playing sports or merely frolicking in the parks, you can find it in Arlington.
Twice in 1765, New York patented land in the same area, the first called Princetown (for King George's firstborn, the newly-named Prince of Wales), the second merely the Napier Tract (for James Napier, the King's inspector and director general of military hospitals in North America). The New York patents and the claims of Indians were later the source of considerable difficulty for those who settled under Benning Wentworth's grant.
Some suggest that the town is named for Arlington, Massachusetts, but that town was not so named until many years later. Rather, it is highly probable that Wentworth had a distinguished Englishman in mind, as he so often did when naming a town. The origin of the name derives from the Old English word for "the town of the people of the Earl".
With the outbreak of the Revolutionary War soon after the town was settled, Arlington's early years were turbulent. When the more northern settlements were abandoned because of danger from the British and Indians in Canada, several of the Green Mountain Boys, Thomas Chittenden (Vermont's first Governor), Seth Warner and the Allens' cousin, Remember Baker lived in Arlington, and many meetings of the Vermont Council of Safety were held there (as the Governor's residence, it was the de facto first capital). Baker, later killed by Indians while on a scouting mission, built the first grist mill at what is now East Arlington.
In a year when exceptionally late frosts caused crop failures throughout most of the town, one section was spared by its sheltered location. Its residents shared their crops and grains with their less fortunate neighbors, who took to calling the hamlet "Egypt", in memory of the Biblical story of Joseph providing grain for his starving family and others.
The Batten Kill, offering world-famous trout fishing, flows through Arlington on its way west to the Hudson.
Lore has it that the pine tree depicted in Vermont's State Seal still stands in Arlington.
Arlington is 12 miles north of Everett, at the junctions of the North and South forks of the Stillaguamish River. It was formed through a merger with adjacent Haller in 1903.
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