 The town includes the locations of Bethel village, Bethel-Gilead, East Bethel, Lilliesville, Lympus (formerly Olympus), and West Bethel.Bethel is best known for being the source of Bethel White granite which was used to build Union Station (Washington, D.C.) and the National Museum of Natural History.Bethel was the first town created by the independent Republic of Vermont in 1779 and was named after the Biblical village of Bethel.