"West Poultney" is now known as the Village of Poultney.  It maintains a Village government separate from the Town of Poultney, and it houses the Town and Village government offices, Town Clerk's Office, Public Library, Post Office, High School, Green Mountain College, Catholic, Methodist, Episcopal and Welsh Presbyterian churches.  It is the hub of the Poultney community with the majority of businesses located on its Main Street.  It is one mile from the traffic light intersection on Main Street and Route 30 to the steps of East Poultney's historic Eagle Tavern.
        Troy Conference Academy was founded in "West Poultney" in 1832 and the Delaware & Hudson Railroad became the primary north/south means of traffic in 1852 just two blocks from that campus and servicing the needs of the slate quarry industry in the valley.  The railroad opened up easy routes of travel to New York City from West Poultney as well as to other regions of the northeast.
        Just outside the village's Norton Avenue is located in the Town of Poultney, site of the public elementary school and Veteran's Memorial Park and ball field.  The village's Norton Avenue was the street upon which lived Nobel Peace Prize recipient Jody Williams (landmines) before her family relocated to the Brattleboro, Vermont region.

       In "Dros Gynanfor A Chyfandir" by William Davies Evans, pages 23-24, published in 1883 in Aberystwyth, Wales following Evans' visit to Poultney, he described the West Poultney village as follows:

                    "... I saw one of the cleanest and healthiest of villages.  By the great width and straight lines of its
                    streets, the splendor of its buildings and the order in the growth of its shady trees, I could believe
                    that this would be a paradise in summer. ..."

The above text, in Welsh, was translated 19 December 1996 by Heini Gruffudd of Swansea, South Wales.  Mr. Gruffudd is Welsh language teacher at the University of Wales, Swansea and for Cymdeithas Madog.  He is author of several Welsh language instructional books and tapes.