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The town was named after the Earl of Pomfret. [4] Pomfret was chartered in 1761 by Benning Wentworth, who was the governor of New Hampshire. The first settler (1770) was Bartholomew Durkee, who came from Pomfret, Connecticut. Pomfret was called "New Pomfret" at first because most of the people who settled there came from the town in Connecticut.
During fall foliage season, hundreds of tourists flock to Pomfret, a small town of 900 locals. Influencers overran a rural Vermont town. Now its locals are fighting back
J .S. Garland, New England town law: a digest of statutes and decisions concerning towns and town officers, Boston Book Co., Boston, 1906. D. G. Sanford, Vermont Municipalities: an index to their charters and special acts, (Vermont Office of Secretary of State, 1986). U.S. Census Bureau, Census of population, data for 1930–2000.
Location of Windsor County in Vermont. The National Register of Historic Places is a United States federal official list of places and sites considered worthy of preservation. In Windsor County, Vermont, there are 134 properties and districts listed on the National Register, including 4 National Historic Landmarks.
Originally settled as part of Massachusetts, the townspeople declared Vermont a free republic in 1777. The oldest town in VT is almost 300 years old. Here's where it is.
The Windsor-6-1 Representative District is a one-member state Representative district in the U.S. state of Vermont. It is one of the 108 one or two member districts into which the state was divided by the redistricting and reapportionment plan developed by the Vermont General Assembly following the 2000 U.S. Census. The plan applies to ...
North Pomfret (also Snows Store) is an unincorporated community within the town of Pomfret in Windsor County, Vermont, United States. [1] Its ZIP code is 05053. Notable people
Interstate 89 does not pass through the town, it is served by exit 1 in nearby Quechee. It is bordered by the town of Pomfret to the north, Hartford to the northeast, Hartland to the east, Reading to the south, and Bridgewater to the west. Woodstock is a three-hour drive from Boston and is 250 miles (400 km) away from New York City.