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Caledonia County, Vermont

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  • George Vilas Poor (1862 - 1931)
    Married Florence Emeline Keniston Colby Stepdaughter: Laura I Colby Blodgett Vermont Births and Christenings, 1765-1908", database, FamilySearch ( : 16 December 2019), Geo V. Poor, 1862. Notes
  • Charles Andrew Willard (1857 - 1914)
    Wikipedia Birth 1860 United States census 1870 United States census 1880 United States census 1910 United States census
  • Henry Clay Ide (1844 - 1921)
    Henry Clay Ide was a U.S. judge, colonial commissioner, ambassador, and Governor-General of the Philippines.Born in Barnet, Vermont in 1844, Ide graduated from Dartmouth in 1866, where he was named val...
  • James Marr Edwards (1915 - d.)
    Residence • 1920 Saco Ward 1, York, Maine, United States Residence • 1930 Saco, York, Maine, United States Residence • 1935 Same House Residence • 1940 Ward 3, Saco, Saco City, York, Maine, Unit...
  • Harry John Edwards (1887 - d.)
    Residence • 18 May 1911 Walden, Vermont Custom Event • Maine, Marriage Index, 1892-1966, 1977-1996 Alice G Marr and Harry J Edwards Custom Event • Draft Registration 1917-1918 Caledonia County, Un...

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Overview

The county shares the same pre-Columbian history with the Northeast Kingdom.

Rogers' Rangers were forced to retreat through the county following their attack on Saint-Francis, Quebec in 1759. To confound their avenging pursuers, they had split up. One group came south over the summit into the Passumpsic River Valley.

Vermont was divided into two counties in March 1778. In 1781 the legislature divided the northernmost county, Cumberland, into three counties: Windham and Windsor, located about where they are now. The northern remainder was called Orange county. This latter tract nearly corresponded with the old New York county of Gloucester, organized by that province March 16, 1770, with Newbury as the shire town.

On November 5, 1792, the legislature divided Chittenden and Orange counties into six separate counties, as follows: Chittenden, Orange, Franklin, Caledonia, Essex, and Orleans. There is a supposition that the county was called Caledonia, to commemorate the large number of Scottish settlers.

Caledonians joined the Union Army in response to a call for volunteers. In September 1861, they joined the Vermont 6th Vermont Infantry, and helped fill out Companies B, D and E. The regiment ultimately became part of the First Vermont Brigade.

Adjacent Counties

Towns

  • Barnet
  • Burke
  • Danville
  • Groton
  • Hardwick
  • Kirby
  • Lyndon
  • Newark
  • Peacham
  • Ryegate
  • Sheffield
  • St. Johnsbury (Shire Town)
  • Stannard
  • Sutton
  • Walden
  • Waterford
  • Wheelock

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