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Swanton is located in western Franklin County, bordered on the west by Lake Champlain and Grand Isle County.The town limits extend northwest to the Canada–United States border within Missisquoi Bay, west of Highgate.
James Donnaruma, an immigrant from Salerno, founded La Gazzetta del Massachusetts, a popular Italian-language newspaper, in 1905. As editor he used his influence to help local Italians, advocating for them in his paper, writing letters to Congress, recommending people for jobs, supporting Italian political candidates, and making generous ...
Vermont Route 36 leads west from Swanton village as Lake Street 2 miles (3 km) to the shore of Lake Champlain at Maquam Bay, then south along the lakeshore 8 miles (13 km) to St. Albans Bay. According to the United States Census Bureau , the village of Swanton has a total area of 0.79 square miles (2.05 km 2 ), of which 0.76 square miles (1.97 ...
Swanton's Methodist congregation has a history beginning with a circuit-riding priest in 1806, who led services in the local schoolhouse. The congregation was formally organized in 1815, and met in a building owned by Elisha Barney, a local mill owner. From 1822 until 1847 the congregation met in a union church shared with three other ...
The Richwood Estate is located in southern Swanton, on the east side of US 7 about 1 mile (1.6 km) north of the border with St. Albans. It is set on 9 acres (3.6 ha) of primarily woodland, between Sugarmaple Drive and Maple Garden Estates. The main house is a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story stone and frame structure, covered by a mansarded hip roof.
Darling Hill Road near the Estate in late October. Elmer Darling, a native of Burke, made a fortune operating the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York City.He began purchasing properties on Darling Hill (then known as Bemis) in 1883, and had by the early 20th century amassed more than 2,000 acres of farmland encompassing an entire ridge north of Lyndon and west of East Burke.
The Mayflower Inn on Manomet Point, Plymouth Massachusetts was a large wooden structure set atop a hill off Point Road, with sweeping vistas of White Horse Beach to the north and the Cape Cod Bay and Scooks Pond to the south. Its exterior is similar in design to the Chatham Bars Inn, located in Chatham Massachusetts, which opened in 1914.
Vermont Route 78 (VT 78) is a 21.126-mile-long (33.999 km) east–west state highway in northwestern Vermont, United States. It begins at U.S. Route 2 (US 2) in Alburgh near the New York and Canada–US borders, and runs southeast to VT 105 in Sheldon .