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Lamoille County, Vermont
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Lamoille County is located in north
central Vermont. It was incorporated in
1835, embracing 12 towns: Eden,
Hyde Park, Morristown and Wolcott were taken from Orleans County; Belvidere,
Cambridge, Johnson, Sterling (now extinct), and Waterville
from Franklin County; Elmore and Stowe
from Washington County; and Mansfield (now extinct)
from Chittenden County.
Towns and communities in Lamoille
County include the towns below. Select
from the TOWNS LIST below to view information and links specific to each
location. Or, Select to see GENERAL Lamoille County information and links.
Eden, Hyde Park, Morristown, Wolcott, Belvidere,
Cambridge, Johnson, Sterling, Waterville,
GENERAL LAMOILLE COUNTY
HISTORICAL
& GENEALOGICAL SOCIETIES
· Find A Grave for Lamoille
County, VT Cemeteries
CENSUS
· Index to 1790 U.S. Census Vermont
Info. - Note: Vermont joined the Union
in March, 1791, so its 1790 census was actually taken in 1791. At that time, Vermont consisted of 7 counties. Present-day counties were later formed from
all or portions of these seven counties.
· 1790 Census Info: Chittenden County -
(includes towns which later became part of the counties of Franklin,
Chittenden, Lamoille and portions of Orleans, Washington and Addison Counties)
· 1790 U. S. Census of Orange County,
Vermont Towns which were soon to become part of Caledonia County when formed,
in 1792, from Orange County, (includes towns which came to be within the
counties of Caledonia, Essex, Orange, Orleans and Washington) abstracted by Jim Dresser, dedicated Town
Coordinator for Groton, VTGenWeb. Thank
you Jim!!! Note: This census of Vermont was actually taken in 1791.
· 1790 Census
(familysearch.org)
· 1800 Census
(familysearch.org)
· 1810 Census
(familysearch.org)
· 1820 Census
(familysearch.org)
· 1830 Census
(familysearch.org)
· 1840 Census
(familysearch.org)
· 1850 Census
(familysearch.org)
· 1860 Census
(familysearch.org)
· 1870 Census
(familysearch.org)
· 1880 Census Index
- Excellent resource!!!
(familysearch.org)
· 1900 Census
(familysearch.org)
· 1910 Census
(familysearch.org)
· 1920 Census
(familysearch.org)
· Obtaining
EDs for the 1930 Census in One Step (Large Cities), by Stephen P. Morse,
PhD, Joel D. Weintraub, PhD and David R. Kehs, PhD
· 1930 Census
(familysearch.org)
· 1940 Census (familysearch.org)
· USGenWeb Census Project for
Vermont, coordinated by Linda Talbott
· NARA:
National Archives and Records Administration
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Clues in Census
Records, 1790-1840
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Clues in Census
Records, 1850-1930
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Nonpopulation
Census Records
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Prologue,
Spring 1996, Vol. 28, No. 1, "First
in the Path of the Firemen" The Fate of the 1890 Population Census,”
by Kellee Blake.
HISTORY
· Gazetteer
and Business Directory of Lamoille and Orleans Counties, Vermont, by
Hamilton Child, 1883.
HISTORICAL & GENEALOGICAL
SOCIETIES
MAPS
· Vermont Area Map of ca.
1756: An accurate map of His Majesty's Province of New-Hampshire in New
England & all the adjacent country northward to the River St. Lawrence,
& eastward to Penobscot Bay, containing the principal places which relate
to the present war on the continent of North America. By Saml.
Langdon (1723-1797).
· Ca. 1780 Map which shows
land grants and purchases in northeastern New York State and granted townships
in Vermont and parts of New Hampshire, and Massachusetts: A chorographical
map of the Northern Department of North-America, drawn from the latest and most
accurate observations, at Amsterdam by Cóvens and Mortier and Cóvens, junior. By H. Klockhoff,
sculp., [Amsterdam] 1780. Repository:
Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA,
url: <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3715.ar082800>
· Ca. 1781 Map: An Accurate
map of New Hampshire in New England, from a late survey. [London,
1781]. From the Universal magazine of knowledge
and pleasure. March, 1781. Repository: Library of Congress Geography and Map
Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA, url:
<http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3740.ar087200>
· Ca. 1784 Map: An accurate
map of the State and Province of New-Hampshire in New England, taken from
actual surveys of all the inhabited part, and from the best information of what
is uninhabited, together with the adjacent countries, which exhibits the
theatre of this war in that part of the world, by Col. Blanchard and the Revd. Mr. Langdon. Engraved by Thomas Jefferys.
With many additions by Abel Sawyer. Boston, 1784. Repository: Library of Congress Geography and
Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA, url: <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3740.ar087100>
· 1795 Map of Vermont, from
actual survey. By Doolittle, Amos
(1754-1832). From Carey's American
Atlas, Philadelphia, 1795. DLC.
Philadelphia, 1795. Repository:
Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA,
url: <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3750.ct000093>
· 1814 Map of Vermont, from
actual survey. By Carey, Mathew (1760-1839). From Carey's General Atlas of
the World. DLC. [S.l.],
1814. Repository: Library of Congress
Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA, url:
<http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3750.ct000094>
· Vermont
Maps – Middlebury College digital collections.
· 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.
MILITARY
· Vermont
in the Civil War, by Tom Ledoux.
NEWS
· The Stowe Reporter -
Serving Stowe, Waterbury, Morrisville, Hyde Park and other communities in the
Mt. Mansfield area.
· The News & Citizen - Lamoille
County, VT News.
QUERIES
· Rootsweb
Message Boards for Lamoille County, VT
TOWNS / TOWNSHIPS / VILLAGES
VITAL RECORDS
Vermont
vital records may be obtained through the town clerk of the town in which the
event occurred and/or through the resources below:
· How to Obtain Vital
Records for Vermont ?
· Vermont State Archives
& Records Administration
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Online
and Informational Copies of Vital Records
· Index to Vermont
Vital Records, 1760-1954, (familysearch.org) – note this index may not be
complete, some towns and records may not be included among state records.
·
Index to Vermont
Vital Records, 1955-2003, (familysearch.org).
· Vermont, Town Clerk,
Vital and Town Records, 1732-2005, (familysearch.org) - Vital and town records acquired from local
town clerk offices.
WILL & PROBATE
· Lamoille Probate Court: Hyde Park, VT
05665 Phone: (802) 888-3306.
Probate Records
Holdings: 1837 to present
· Lamoille County Clerk: P.O. Box 303 - Hyde Park, VT
05655-0303; Phone: (802) 888-2207.
TOWNS
BELVIDERE - (founded in 1791), villages and
communities within Belvidere include:
Belvidere Center, Belvidere Corners,
Belvidere Junction
· Belvidere Town Clerk: 3996 VT-109 - Belvidere Center, VT
05442; Phone: (802) 644-6621.
CAMBRIDGE - (founded in
1781), villages and communities within Cambridge include:
Cambridge, Cambridge Junction,
Jeffersonville, Morses Mill, North Cambridge, Pleasant Valley, and South
Cambridge.
· Cambridge Town Clerk: 85 Church Street, Ste 201 (P.O. Box 127) -
Jeffersonville, VT 05464; Phone: (802)
644-2251.
EDEN - (founded in 1781), villages and
communities within Eden include: Eden and Eden Mills.
· Eden Town Clerk: 71 Old
Schoolhouse Road - Eden Mills, VT 05653;
Phone: (802) 635-2528.
ELMORE - (founded in 1781), villages and
communities within Elmore include: Elmore.
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 constable;
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, Horatio 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: 1175 VT Rte 12 - Elmore, VT 05657;
Phone: (802) 888-2637.
mailing address: P. O. Box 123, Lake Elmore, VT 05657
HYDE PARK - (founded in 1781), villages and
communities within Hyde Park include: Centerville, Cleveland Corners, Hyde
Park, Garfield, and North Hyde Park.
· Lanpher Memorial Library: 141 Main Street - Hyde Park, VT 05655; Phone: (802) 888-4628.
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Information
for Local History Research
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Hyde Park Town Clerk: P.O Box 98 - Hyde Park, VT 05655; Phone: (802) 888-2300.
Cemeteries include:
Center Cemetery - est. 1820
Holbrook Cemetery - est. 1870
Hooper Cemetery - est. 1850
Jedidia Hyde Cemetery - est. 1820
Jones Cemetery - est. 1980
North Hyde Park Cemetery - est. 1830
Plains Cemetery - est. 1800-present
St. Teresa Catholic Cemetery - est. 1904
Village Cemetery - est. 1798
JOHNSON - (founded in 1792), villages and
communities within Johnson include: Johnson and East Johnson.
· 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.
MANSFIELD -
Now extinct, Mansfield was originally settled in 1763. In 1839, 2 square miles
of Mansfield were set off to Underhill and Chittenden County. The remaining portion of Mansfield was set
off to Stowe in 1848.
MORRISTOWN - (founded in 1781), villages and
communities within Morristown include: Cady's Falls (aka Cadysville, aka Gates
Falls, aka Lower Falls, aka Mill Village), Morristown, and Morrisville.
· 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
STERLING -
Sterling was formerly a town within Lamoille county that has become
extinct. It was incorporated in 1805,
then portions were later annexed to the towns of Cambridge
(in 1828), Johnson (in 1855) and Morristown
(1855).
STOWE - (founded in 1763 New Hampshire),
villages and communities within Stowe include: Lower Village, Moscow, and
Stowe.
The Von Trapp Family, portrayed in
"The Sound of Music," located their lodge in Stowe, Lamoille County,
Vermont.
· Welcome
to Stowe Visitor Center
· The Stowe Reporter -
Serving Stowe, Waterbury, Morrisville, Hyde Park and other communities in the
Mt. Mansfield area.
· 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
248 - Stowe, VT 05672; Phone: (802)
253-6133.
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Riverbank
Cemetery
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Old
Yard Cemetery
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West
Branch Cemetery
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Sterling
Valley Cemetery
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Luce
Hill Road Cemetery
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Topnotch
Lower Meadow Cemetery
WATERVILLE - (founded in 1824), villages and
communities within Waterville include: Waterville.
· 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
WOLCOTT - (founded in 1781), villages and
communities within Wolcott include: North Wolcott, Wolcott, and Pottersville.
· Wolcott Town Clerk: P.O Box 100 - Wolcott, VT 05680; Phone: (802) 888-2746.
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