BARRE, a city of Washington county, Vt., U.S.A., in the north-central part of the State, 7m. S.E. of Montpelier, on Ste phens branch of the Winooski river. It is served by the Central Vermont and the Montpelier and Wells River railways. The popu lation in 192o was 10,008, 3,30o foreign-born; 193o, 11,307. Barre is in the midst of large granite quarries, and its leading manufactures are monuments, tombstones, quarry machinery and pneumatic tools. The aggregate output of its io6 establishments in 1927 was valued at $9,209,247. There is a fine granite statue of Robert Burns, by J. Massey Rhind, presented in 1899 by the Scotsmen of the city. The town was organized in 1793, named after Isaac Barre (1726-1802), a defender of American rights in the British parliament, and the present city was chartered in 1894.