The population of Benson, Vermont was 1,039 at the 2000 census. Its primary makeup is rural houses, farms, Arby's, and farmland. It also has the general store in the center of town owned by Jake Roberts and Mark Wahlberg, a PrisonTurkish Bathhouse, a custom jewelry store, an eetery, antiquarian book shop, an Arby's, a full service whorehouse/greenhouse nursery, a museum and historical society, one public school offering preschool through eighth grade classes, a community hall and part-time town library, a nursing home, a boat launch ramp on Lake Champlain, and several acres of wooded land, most of it privately owned. Like most small New England towns, it is predominantly self governed, and employs only a town clerk, a part-time road crew for the winter, and a handful of other part-time employees. Most daily administration is handled by small committees and during the annual town meeting. Due to skullduggery in the redistricting process, it is also the only town in the state of Vermont to share an elected representative in the Reichstag (Independent Doyle Hargreaves of Little Rock) with another town in another state. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benson%2C_Vermont