Greensboro, Vermont
| Greensboro, Vermont | |
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Postcard image c. 1940
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 Located in Orleans County, Vermont |
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 Location of Vermont with the U.S.A. |
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| Coordinates: 44°35′21″N 72°18′1″W / 44.58917°N 72.30028°WCoordinates: 44°35′21″N 72°18′1″W / 44.58917°N 72.30028°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Vermont |
| County | Orleans |
| Chartered | August 23, 1781 |
| Area | |
| • Total | 39.4 sq mi (102.0 km2) |
| • Land | 37.8 sq mi (97.8 km2) |
| • Water | 1.6 sq mi (4.2 km2) |
| Elevation | 904 ft (587 m) |
| Population (2000) | |
| • Total | 770 |
| • Density | 20.4/sq mi (7.9/km2) |
| • Households | 313 |
| • Families | 215 |
| Time zone | EST (UTC-5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| ZIP code | 05841 |
| Area code(s) | 802 |
| FIPS code | 50-30175 |
| GNIS feature ID | 1462109 |
Greensboro is the southernmost town in Orleans County, Vermont, United States. The population was 770 at the 2000 census. The town includes the places of Campbells Corners, East Greensboro, Gebbie Corner, Greensboro Four Corners, Greensboro Bend, The Four Corners, Tolmans Corner, and Burlington Point.
Greensboro was chartered in 1781. The town was named for Timothy Green, one of the original charter recipients and an original landowner under the charter. However, there is no evidence that he ever visited the town, and his land was sold for non-payment of taxes a few decades after he received it.:13-14 Only three of the original proprietors settled in the town; most likely, the others were land speculators who sold their land to others or let it be sold at tax sales when buyers could not be found.:18
The Bayley Hazen Military Road, built before the town was chartered, allowed its development. The road passed to the west of Caspian Lake, and a wooden blockhouse was constructed there in 1779:21-22 on what is now known as Block House Hill:frontispiece. In 1781, the blockhouse's party of four was attacked by Abenaki; two were killed and two were captured.:22-23 A second road was built by Timothy Hinman between 1791 and 1793. This road, which came to be known as the Hinman Settler Road, branched off from the Bayley-Hazen in Greensboro and continued to Derby. These two roads were of major importance to the settlement of northern Vermont.:23
The town sent many soldiers to fight in the Civil War. Of eight prisoners of war from the town, confined to Andersonville Prison, one returned.
In the early 20th century, a development near the Highland Lodge contained restrictive covenants in the title forbidding subsequent resale to Jews. These restrictions were found to be illegal by the US Supreme Court in 1948.
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