Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in White River Junction, VT

White River Junction is an unincorporated village and census-designated place in the town of Hartford in Windsor County, Vermont, and with 2,528 residents at the 2020 census, up from 2,286 in 2010, it is the largest community within the town of Hartford.

The village covers 1.7 square miles and takes its name from the White River, which joins the Connecticut River there, and it is served by ZIP codes 05001 and 05009.

From the arrival of the first railroads in the late 1840s until rail traffic diminished in the 1950s and 1960s, White River Junction was the most important railroad community in Vermont, with five different railroad lines laid through the village between 1847 and 1863, creating an eight-track crossing served by 50 passenger trains daily.

The village's first railroad depot was built in 1849, and local farmer Samuel Nutt bought and moved a hotel from Enfield, New Hampshire, to the site, opening it as the Junction House, the first of three hotels on the site now occupied by the Coolidge Hotel, built in 1924.

White River Junction hosted the annual Vermont State Fair from the mid-19th century until the mid-20th century, with a special rail spur carrying visitors uphill from the station to the fairgrounds.

The White River Junction Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 with its boundaries increased in 2002, includes at least 29 buildings such as the Coolidge Hotel, the First National Bank building, a U.S. Post Office building, and the White River Junction Fire House.

The 2000 census counted 1,169 households in the village, with an average household size of 2.19 people.

White River Junction is home to the Center for Cartoon Studies, a two-year art school focusing on sequential art, and to Northern Stage, a professional regional theatre.

Director D.W. Griffith's film Way Down East was partly filmed on the ice floes of the Connecticut and White rivers, and the cast and crew lodged at the Hotel Coolidge while filming.

Amtrak's Vermonter provides daily service through White River Junction between Washington, D.C., and St. Albans, Vermont, and the village sits where Vermont's two major Interstate highways, I-89 and I-91, meet.