Saxtons River is an incorporated village in the town of Rockingham in Windham County, in the Southern Vermont region of the state. For over a hundred years, Saxtons River has been the home of Vermont Academy, an independent secondary school.

Some notable people from Saxtons River include: John Butler Smith, an American manufacturer & politician; and Crescent Dragonwagon (nee Ellen Zolotow), author, writer, teacher, performer, & co-founder of the non-profit "Writer's Colony at Dairy Hollow" in Arkansas.