Photo: General Robinson Hall House, circa 1830, located at 3144 Route U.S. 7. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. Photographed by User:SebasTorrente (own work), 2018, [cc‑4.0] via Wikimedia Commons, accessed August, 2025.
Wallingford Town Hall is located at 75 School Street, Wallingford, VT 05773.
Phone: 802‑446‑2872.
Photo: General Robinson Hall House, circa 1830, located at 3144 Route U.S. 7. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. Photographed by User:SebasTorrente (own work), 2018, [cc‑4.0] via Wikimedia Commons, accessed August, 2025.
The Robinson Hall House is the only house outside of the Rural Otter Creek Valley Historic District associated with the Munson family, the well-to-do farmers and entrepreneurs who built the valley's imposing series of Federal and Greek Revival farmhouses. General Robinson Hall married Sarah, Isaac Munson's eldest daughter. The brick house's well-preserved late Federal sidehall form and fine period detailing are almost identical to the house Isaac Munson had built for himself in 1830. Both are the earliest remaining of the Munson related manses. The complex also retains a 19th century barn indictive of its agricultural past and the debris from a 19th century marble quarry located on the premises. [National Register of Historic Places].
Neighborhoods
The Town of Wallingford is located in southern Rutland County, Vermont, in the central part of the state. It lies about 10 miles south of Rutland City along U.S. Route 7. The town includes three main village centers: Wallingford Village (downtown Wallingford), South Wallingford, and East Wallingford. Its landscape spans the Green Mountains to the east, the Vermont Valley (along Otter Creek and U.S. 7) through the center, and the Taconic Mountains to the west. Nearby towns include Clarendon to the north, Shrewsbury to the east, Mount Holly and Mount Tabor to the south, and Danby and Tinmouth to the west.
Beginnings [1]
Not all of the original proprietors of Wallingford became residents. Some used their land for speculation. Others that their sons might have the opportunities of a new country. New townships were rapidly being settled. In 1761 no less than 60 townships were granted on the west side of the Connecticut River and there were a total of 138 grants in the 2 years following.
The first meeting of the proprietors was held in Wallingford, Connecticut on September 12, 1772, almost 11 years after the charter had been granted. Captain Eliakim Hall was chosen moderator, and Abner Hall surveyor's clerk, and it was voted to allot 100 acres of land to each proprietor's right. Isaac Hall was appointed to superintend and Captain Eliakim Hall and Miles Johnson a committee to draft said allotments. Two years previous the town had been surveyed by Remember Baker and his assistants. On the second of June, 1770, in company with a man named Wood from Pawlet, he commenced at the northeast corner of Danby and after running 2 miles and 60 chains north, they heard chopping in the forest. They left their work and followd the sound to the east, on the banks of Otter Creek was a dwelling and a small clearing. This was owned by Ephraim Seeley, who was the first inhabitant of Wallingfor, although he was under the impression that he was in the town of Tinmouth.