Brownington is a town in Orleans County, Vermont, United States.

A narrow vein of hornblende schist extends through the central part, from north to south.

[10] The local school is part of the OSCU (Orleans Central Supervisory Union).

Brownington pays the OCSU to educate grades 9–12 out of its budget at Lake Region Union High School (#24).

Alexander Twilight built Athenian Hall,[12] now called the Old Stone House[13] as a dormitory for a boarding academy in 1836.

[15] Part of the museum complex is the Samuel Read Hall House, located on the Hinman Settler Road.

For about twenty years it was the home of Hall, a pioneer in the field of American education.

[16][17] The Orleans County Grammar School was moved back to its original location on August 8, 2016, by a team of 46 oxen.