Glastenbury Mountain

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Glastenbury Mountain
Elevation	1,142 metres (3,747 ft)
Location	Bennington County, Vermont, USA
Range	Green Mountains
Prominence	340 m (1,120 ft) ^[1]
Coordinates	42°58.67′N 73°4.30′W / 42.97783, -73.07167Coordinates: 42°58.67′N 73°4.30′W / 42.97783, -73.07167
Topo map	USGS Woodford

Glastenbury Mountain is a mountain located in Bennington County, Vermont, in the Green Mountain National Forest. The mountain is part of the Green Mountains.

The northeast side of Glastenbury Mountain drains into Deer Lick Brook, thence into the Glastenbury River, the Deerfield River, the Connecticut River, and into Long Island Sound in Connecticut. The southeast side of Glastenbury Mtn. drains into Deer Cabin Brook, and thence into the Glastenbury River. The southwest end of Glastenbury Mtn. drains into Bolles Brook, thence into the Roaring Branch of the Walloomsac River, the Hoosic River, the Hudson River, and into New York Bay in New York. The northwest side of Glastenbury drains into the Fayville Branch of Warm Brook, thence into Batten Kill and the Hudson River.

Glastenbury is the southernmost mountain on the Long Trail, a 272-mile (438-km) hiking trail running the length of Vermont. In this part of the state, the Appalachian Trail, a 2,170-mile (3,500-km) National Scenic Trail from Georgia to Maine, coincides with the Long Trail.

1 Historical curiosities
2 Notes
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Historical curiosities

Glastenbury Mountain and its environs have gained an infamously haunting reputation as the center for at least five (and possibly as much as eight or nine)disappearances in the immediate area between 1942 and 1950. Only one body was ever found in puzzling circumstances and the fates of the other missing persons remain a complete mystery to this day. Perhaps the most widely publicized case was the disturbingly bizarre vanishing of 18-year-old Bennington College sophomore Paula Jean Welden, of Stamford, Connecticut, in the afternoon of December 1, 1946. Paula set off singlehandedly from Bennington College for a day-hike on the Long Trail hikers route. This section of the Long Trail at that time had a slightly different alignment on a more westerly course than at present as for the immediate stretch just north of the Vermont State Route 9 (the present "Molly Stark Trail Scenic Byway" section between Bennington and Woodford)and a few miles east of Bennington. It is known that Paula Welden started her walk from Woodford Hollow on State Route 9 and continued northwards along the present Long Trail Road/Harbour Road. She was last seen near the Fay Fuller Camp at Bickford Hollow walking in the direction of Glastenbury Mountain. Despite repeated and extensive searches of the area in early December 1946 and again in the spring of 1947 no clues were ever found and the eerie disappearance of Paula Welden has remained a complete riddle ever since.