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LAMOILLE County, Vermont
Genealogy and History

Lamoille County is located in north central Vermont, with Orleans and Caledonia Counties to the east, Washington County to the south, Chittenden County to the west, and Franklin County to the north.  It was incorporated in 1835, embracing 12 towns:  Eden, Hyde Park, Morristown and Wolcott were taken from Orleans County; Belvidere, Cambridge, Johnson, Sterling, and Waterville from Franklin County; Elmore and Stowe from Washington County; and Mansfield from Chittenden County.  In 1839, 2 square miles of Mansfield were set off to Underhill and Chittenden County.

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VTGenWeb Lamoille County Towns Table

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TOWN	When Founded?	Villages & Communities Within	Contact
BELVIDERE	1791	Belvidere Center, Belvidere Corners, Belvidere Junction	Host Desired Contact Ann Mensch
CAMBRIDGE	1781	Cambridge, Cambridge Junction, Jeffersonville, Morses Mill, North Cambridge, Pleasant Valley, South Cambridge	Host Desired Contact Ann Mensch
EDEN	1781	Eden, Eden Mills	Deanna French
ELMORE	1781	Elmore	Host Desired Contact Ann Mensch
HYDE PARK	1781	Centerville, Cleveland Corners, Hyde Park, Garfield, North Hyde Park	Host Desired Contact Ann Mensch
JOHNSON	1792	Johnson, East Johnson	Host Desired Contact Ann Mensch
MORRISTOWN	1781	Cady's Falls (aka Cadysville, aka Gates Falls, aka Lower Falls, aka Mill Village), Morristown, Morrisville	Host Desired Contact Ann Mensch
STOWE	1763 / NH	Lower Village, Moscow, Stowe	Host Desired Contact Ann Mensch
WATERVILLE	1824	Waterville	Host Desired Contact Ann Mensch
WOLCOTT	1781	North Wolcott, Wolcott, Pottersville	Host Desired Contact Ann Mensch

The Trapp Family, portrayed in "The Sound of Music", located their lodge in Stowe, Lamoille County, Vermont.

• Interactive Census Bureau Map of Lamoille County, Vermont
• 1895 Lamoille County, Vermont Atlas, by Pam Rietsch at: prietsch@ismi.net
• GORP: Northern Vermont Regional Map
• Maps of the Lower Lamoille River & Upper Lamoille River areas - premier trout fishing.
• USGS: Maps of Lamoille County, Vermont features - including cemeteries, churches, populated places and more.  Please note that the map town listed with a feature may be used as a map reference for the site, and may not be the town where the feature is actually located...Select a map to see the location of the actual feature.  This database may not be complete, and, as with any database, there may be errors.
• Vermont, from Actual Survey [Map], by Amos Doolittle (1754-1832), from Samuel Lewis' Atlas, 1817, published 181-. Repository: Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA, url: <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3750.ct000097>
• ca. 1826 Vermont [Map], by Fielding Lucas (1781-1854), 1826, Repository: Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA, url: <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3750.ct000096>
• 1814 A Map of Vermont, by John Stockdale (1749?-1814.), from Stockdale from Morse, Maps of America, 1814, Repository: Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA, url: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3750.ct000095
• Sanborn Maps, online at the Vermont Historical Society
• The Caledonian Record Online Edition - News for Vermont and New Hampshire
• The Stowe Reporter - For 40 years The Stowe Reporter has been the only newspaper in Stowe and is now the largest circulation weekly in Lamoille County. We also serve Waterbury, Morrisville, Hyde Park and other communities in the Mt. Mansfield area.
• The News & Citizen - Lamoille County, VT News
• Gazetteer and Business Directory of Lamoille and Orleans Counties, Vermont, by Hamilton Child, 1883.
• Lamoille Valley Chamber of Commerce
• Lamoille County Profile
• Civil War Letters of Almer H. Montague (born 1842 in Bakersfield, VT and resided in Cambridge) who enlisted in Co. E of the 13th Vt. Vol. Inf. Regiment on Sept. 8, 1862 by Mark Felone
• Vermont Historical Markers
• VHS: The Vermont Flood of 1927 - counties reporting casualties include: Chittenden, Lamoille, Orleans, Rutland, Washington and Windsor.

  CEMETERIES

 

 

  PROBATE

• Lamoille Probate Court

   Hyde Park, VT  05665  Phone: (802) 888-3306.
   Probate Records Holdings: 1837 to present

• Vermont Probate Courts Research Information
• Lamoille County Clerk:

   P.O. Box 303 - Hyde Park, VT 05655-0303;  Phone: (802) 888-2207.

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BELVIDERE
   Founded in 1791

BELVIDERE includes the villages of Belvidere Center, Belvidere Corners and Belvidere Junction.  

• Belvidere Town Clerk:

   RR 1 Box 1062 - Belvidere Center, VT 05442  Phone: (802) 661-2498.

CAMBRIDGE
   Founded in 1781

CAMBRIDGE encompasses the city of Cambridge and villages of Cambridge Junction, Jeffersonvill, North Cambridge, South Cambridge, and Pleasant Valley.  

• Cambridge, VT - This site, hosted by Malcolm Bevins, contains 1883 household heads and businesses in addition to an 1880s map.
• Cambridge Historical Society

    P.O. Box 16, Jeffersonville, VT  05464-0016

• Cambridge Town Clerk:

   P.O Box lu - Jeffersonville, VT 05464  Phone: (802) 644-2251.

EDEN
   Founded in 1781

EDEN encompasses the villages of Eden and Eden Mills.

• Lamoille County GenWeb page for Eden, VT, by Deanna French.
• Eden Town Clerk: P.O Box 11 - Eden Mills, VT 05653  Phone: (802) 635-2528.

 

ELMORE
     Founded in 1781
     The following historical information was abstracted, by Ann Mensch, from "Elmore", by E. Henry Willey, of Hyde Park, as found in The Vermont Historical Gazetteer:  A Magazine, Embracing a History of Each Town, Civil, Ecclesiastical, Biographical and Military.  Vol. 2, part 2, edited by Abby Maria Hemenway.  Burlington, Vt :  Miss A. M. Hemenway, 1867. (pp. 626-628).

     Elmore was granted November 7, 1780; on August 21, 1781, it was chartered to Colonel Samuel Elmore and several associates.  From Col. Elmore the town derives its name.  Nothing was done toward settling the town until about July 1790, when Martin and Jesse Elmore, James and Seth Olmstead, Aaron Keeler and others, mostly from Sharon and Norwalk, Connecticut, commenced a settlement.  The population grew steadily as follows:  in 1791 there were 12; in 1800, 45; in 1810, 157; in 1820, 157; in 1830, 442, in 1840, 467; in 1850, 504; and in 1860, 602.
     Elmore was first organized with civil positions on July 23, 1792, with Joseph LEACH as the town clerk and contable; Job GIBBS, Joseph LEACH and James OLMSTEAD as selectmen; Martin ELMORE as town representative, and Martin ELMORE as Justice of the Peace, an office which he held for 18 successive years.  He was also town clerk for 41 years, from 1797 until 1838.
     During the Civil War, it is reported that the town of Elmore furnished the following 64 soldiers for the Union:  Stephen C. ALBEE, David P. BARNES, Joseph BASHAW, Henry J. BAGLEY, John P. BEDELL; Wm. BISCOMER who died of wounds 20 May 1864; Lewis BELVILLE who was said to have deserted 1 Jan 1863; Albert J. BIDDELL, prisoner 23 June 1864; Clesson CAMERON, Lyman L. CAMP, Charles CARTER, deserted 18 Dec 1862; W. B. CHANDLER, Rufus H. CLARK, Seth L. CLARK, Chas. CLEMENT, Chas S. COOPER, John A. CAMP, Luman M. DAVIS, killed 12 May 1864 at Spottsylvania; James P. DAVIS, Solon W. DAVIS, Learnard W. DAVIS, Hiram DWYER, died 17 Jan 1864; Edwin R. DODGE, killed 16 Apr 1862 at Lee's Mills, Va.; Jas. ESTES, killed 29 Jun 1862 at Savage Station, Va.; Lewis H. ESTES, Jos. FISHER, deserted 4 Sep 1862; Samuel B. FISK, Joseph GABOUREE, Justus GALE, died 19 Sep 1863; Geo. W. GARNER, died 9 Oct 1861; Russell H. GAY, Luman M. GROUT, Maj. 8th Vermont Regt.; Ira F. GROUT, John S. HARRINGTON, Andrew J. HART, Franklin HASTINGS, Edward HOLDEN, Leman HOLDEN, Solon W. HUTCHINS, died 23 Feb 1864; JOseph LaFLEUR, killed 5 May 1864, Wilderness; Melvin A. LEIGHTON, deserted 18 Dec 1862; John W. MERRIAM, died 24 Sep 1863; Curtis B. MOORE, died 9 Jul 1862; Andrew J. MORSE, Benjamin F. MORSE, Chas. W. MORSE, died 27 Aug 1862; Luther W. MORSE, died 19 Jun 1863; David R. MULIKEN, Charles NOE, Ingalls K. OBER, Franklin A. OLMSTEAD, Horation N. OLMSTEAD, Alpheus PARKER, Frank A. RUSSELL, missing in action 29 Jun 1864; Frederick SCHOFIELD, drowned 23 Jun 1863 in Miss. River; Lorenzo D. SHAW, John N. STETSON, B. P. SPARROW, prisoner 23 Jun 1864; William SWIFT, Geo. F. WHEAT, died 14 Mar 1863; Hiram WHEELER, died 25 Feb 1863; Anthony WHITE, Ezra G. WILLIAMS, prisoner 23 Jun 1864; and U. A. WOODBURY, Capt. wounded in Bull Run.

• Elmore Town Clerk:

   P.O. Box LU - Lake Elmore, VT 05657  Phone: (802) 888-2637.

HYDE PARK
   Founded in 1781

HYDE PARK encompasses the town of Hyde Park and the villages of Centerville, Cleveland Corners, Garfield, and North Hyde Park.  A large portion of the Morrisville Village forest, with the Green River Reservoir, is within the boundaries of Hyde Park.

• Lanpher Memorial Library

   141 Main Street - P.O. Box 196 - Hyde Park, VT 05655   Phone: (802) 888-4628.

• Hyde Park Town Clerk:

   P.O Box 98 - Hyde Park, VT 05655  Phone: (802) 888-2300.
Cemeteries include:
Center Cemetery - est. 1820; Latitude: ; Longitude:
Holbrook Cemetery - est. 1870; Latitude: ; Longitude:
Hooper Cemetery - est. 1850; Latitude: ; Longitude:
Jedidia Hyde Cemetery - est. 1820; Latitude: ; Longitude:
Jones Cemetery - est. 1980; Latitude: ; Longitude:
North Hyde Park Cemetery - est. 1830; Latitude: 443954N; Longitude: 0723616W, (see map)
Plains Cemetery - est. 1800-present; Latitude: ; Longitude:
St. Teresa Catholic Cemetery - est. 1904; Latitude: ; Longitude:
Village Cemetery - est. 1798; Latitude: 443545N; Longitude: 0723705W, (see map)

JOHNSON
   Founded in 1792

JOHNSON encompasses the city of Johnson and the village of East Johnson.

• Johnson, VT Home Page
• Johnson Town Charter - 2 Jan 1792.
• Johnson Public Library

   Railroad Street - Johnson, VT 05656     Phone: (802) 635-7141.

• Johnson Town Clerk:  P.O. Box 383 - Johnson, VT 05656  Phone: (802) 635-2611.

 

MORRISTOWN
   Founded in 1781

MORRISTOWN encompasses Morrisville and the village of Cady Falls.  Cady Falls has also been known by the following names: Cadysville, aka Gates Falls, aka Lower Falls, aka Mill Village.  Cady Falls is located north of Morrisville, near the Hyde Park and Morristown boundary.
 

• The News & Citizen - Lamoille County, VT News (Morrisville)
• Town of Morristown, Vermont
• Morristown Centennial Library

   7 Richmond Street - Morrisville, VT 05661    Phone: (802) 888-3853.

• Morristown Town Clerk:

   P.O Box 748 - Morrisville, VT 05661 
   Phone: (802) 888-6370  -  E-mail:   <mawtclerk@pwshift.com>

STOWE
   Founded in 1763

STOWE encompasses the city of Stow and the villages of Moscow and Lower Village.  

• Town of Stowe, Vermont
• A Chronology of Events, Big and Small, in the History of Stowe
• Map of Stowe, Vermont
• Welcome to Stowe
• Stowe Area Media, Civics, Govt. & Schools
• The Stowe Reporter - For 40 years The Stowe Reporter has been the only newspaper in Stowe and is now the largest circulation weekly in Lamoille County. We also serve Waterbury, Morrisville, Hyde Park and other communities in the Mt. Mansfield area.
• Lamoille Valley Chamber of Commerce.
• Trapp Family Lodge (Sound of Music)
• Stowe Free Library

   Pond Street - Stowe, VT 05672    Phone: (802) 253-6145.

• Stowe Town Clerk:  
• 67 Main Street - P.O Box 730 - Stowe, VT 05672  Phone: (802) 253-6133.
• Town of Stow E-mail: townclerkoffice@townofstowevermont.org

WATERVILLE (aka previously called Colt's Gore)
   Founded in 1824

WATERVILLE encompasses the town of Waterville.

• Virtual Vermont for Waterville Profile
• Historic USGS Maps Covering Waterville, Vermont
• Waterville Town Library

   P.O. Box 1472 - Waterville, VT 05492    Phone: (802) 644-5683.

• Waterville Town Clerk:

  850 VT Route 109, P.O. Box 31 - Waterville, VT 05492 
  Phone: (802) 644-8865   -  E-mail:  watervillevt@pshift.com

WOLCOTT
   Founded in 1781

WOLCOTT encompasses the town of Wolcott and the village of North Wolcott.  

• Wolcott Town Clerk:  P.O Box 100 - Wolcott, VT 05680  Phone: (802) 888-2746.
• Hardwick Area Chamber of Commerce - Wolcott, Vermont
• Virtual Vermont for Wolcott - information
• The Center for Northern Studies at Sterling College - Wolcott, VT
• Sterling College - Craftsbury (Orleans County, VT)
• Craftsbury Public Library
• 12 Church St. - P.O. Box 74 - Craftsbury Common, VT 05827 (Orleans County)
  Phone: (802) 586-9683,   E-mail: <info@craftsburypubliclibrary.org>

 

LAMOILLE County Cemeteries include the following:   Blake Cemetery -  Latitude:  443803N;  Longitude: 0723439W      Located in Eden, VT   Center Cemetery -  Latitude: 444455N;  Longitude:  0724152W   East Cambridge Cemetery -  Latitude:  443923N;  Longitude:  0724606W   La Porte Cemetery -  Latitude: 443229N;  Longitude:  0723703W   Mountain View Cemetery -  Latitude: 443331N;  Longitude:  0723745W   Plot Cemetery -  Latitude:  443954N;  Longitude:  0724054W   Riverbank Cemetery -  Latitude:  442824N;  Longitude:  0724051W   Sterling Cemetery -  Latitude:  443223N;  Longitude:  0724237W

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PROFESSIONAL HISTORICAL GENEALOGY RESEARCH
Ann McRoden Mensch, Professional Historical Genealogist
Researching onsight, and with the vast resources of The Allen County Public Library, holding one of the largest genealogical collections in North America. 

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Printed resources for this page include:

• The Vermont Atlas & Gazetteer.  Eighth Edition, Third Printing.  Freeport, Maine:  Delorme.  1988.

School and Library Atlas of the World.  Fred W. Foster, Ph.D. (Editor).  Sycamore, Illinois:  School and Library Publishing Company.  1982.

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