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Proctor is a census-designated place that comprises the northern half of the town of Proctor in Rutland County, including the unincorporated village of Proctor, and it had a population of 1,565 in the 2020 census out of 1,763 in the entire town.

The CDP covers 3.75 square miles in the valley of Otter Creek, climbing the steep hillsides on each side, and the village sits where the creek drops over Sutherland Falls.

The town of Proctor was formed in 1886 from parts of Rutland and Pittsford around the nucleus of old Sutherland Falls, and it was named for and almost completely owned by Senator Redfield Proctor.

Marble quarrying drove Proctor's growth after the railroad reached Rutland in 1851, when the famous Carrara quarries in Italy became largely unworkable and Rutland became one of the leading marble producers in the world.

The closing of the marble quarries in the town in the 1980s and 1990s cost the area many jobs, and Proctor has struggled more than its neighbors since then.

The Vermont Marble Museum occupies a building of the former Vermont Marble Company overlooking Sutherland Falls, and Wilson Castle is the town's other well-known site.

The Proctor Marble Arch Bridge restoration project received the Marble Institute Award of Merit in 2004 for its commitment to preserving the original stonework.

Vermont Route 3 passes through the community, leading north four miles to Pittsford and south the same distance to Center Rutland, two miles west of downtown Rutland.

The Proctor family produced four Vermont governors: Redfield Proctor, the 37th governor, his son Fletcher Dutton Proctor, the 51st, Redfield Proctor Jr., the 59th, and Mortimer Robinson Proctor, the 66th.