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There are fourteen counties in Vermont. Each county has a county seat, known in Vermont as shire town. In 1777, Vermont had two counties. The western side of the state was called Bennington County and the eastern was called Cumberland County. In 1781 Cumberland County was broken up into three counties in Vermont, plus Washington County, which eventually became part of New Hampshire. Today's Washington County was known as Jefferson County until 1814. Essex County, Orleans County, and Caledonia County are commonly referred to as the Northeast Kingdom.

Lamoille County, Vermont

Lamoille County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education

County Seat: Hyde Park
Year Organized: 1835
Square Miles: 461

Court House:

P.O. Box 490
County Courthouse
Hyde Park, VT 05655-0490

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Either for a misspelling of Champlain's intended name of Lake Champlain, or for the Old French la Moelle ("the marrow").

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

Lamoille County is located in north central Vermont, it was incorporated in 1835

A county in the N. part of Vermont, has an area of about 450 square miles. It is intersected by the Lamoille river, and is principally watered by it and its numerous tributaries, which afford valuable waterpower.

The Green mountain range passes through the county, on which account the soil is more adapted to grazing than tillage, although along the Lamoille river, especially in the eastern portion, there are some excellent tracts of rich meadow land. Indian corn, potatoes, maple sugar, unit grass are the staples. In 1850 this county produced 66,017 bushels of corn; 278,252 of potatoes; 26,973 tons of hay; 437,110 pounds of butter, and 427,918 of maple sugar.

There were 4 woollen factories, 5 grist mills, 8 saw mills, 10 starch works, and 6 tanneries. It contained 17 churches, 4344 pupils attending public schools, and 205 attending academies or other schools. Organized in 1836. Capital. Hyde Park. Population, 10,872.

(1854 U.S. Gazetteer)

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 692 square miles (1,792 km²), of which, 689 square miles (1,783 km²) of it is land and 3 square miles (8 km²) of it (0.46%) is water.

Neighboring Counties:

Caledonia County, Vermont - northeast
Grafton County, New Hampshire - east
Windsor County, Vermont - southwest
Addison County, Vermont - west
Washington County, Vermont - northwest

Cities and Towns:

- Belvidere	town
- Cambridge	village	Incorporated Area
- Eden	town
- Elmore	town
- Fletcher	town
- Hyde Park (County Seat)	village	Incorporated Area
- Jeffersonville	village	Incorporated Area
- Johnson	village	Incorporated Area
- Morristown	town
- Morrisville	village	Incorporated Area
- Stowe	town
- Waterville	town
- Wolcott	town

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The history of our nation was a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names given the counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic features of this country!"

But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.

Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally, act locally."