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About Fairfax, Vermont 
Franklin County
*Area, Population and Density rankings refer to Fairfax's relative position among Vermont's 255 civic entities (9 cities, 242 towns, 4 gores and grants). Complete rankings are here.
The list of grantees was headed by the New York businessman Edward Burling, who was also included in Benning Wentworth's grants for Shelburne, Colchester, Essex, Huntington and Jericho. See also Burlington.
Although there is no certainty about it, this Vermont town was probably named for Thomas Fairfax, the sixth Baron Fairfax, along with nearly a dozen other places in the US. He was born at Leeds Castle, Kent, England, in 1693. Around 1747 his paternal estate was sold to satisfy his father's creditors, and he emigrated to Virginia to take up residence on the estate of his maternal grandfather, the second Baron Culpeper. Well known throughout the colonies, Fairfax was a close friend of George Washington: it was he who befriended the teenaged Washington by giving him the job of surveying and mapping the Fairfax estates. He held many town and county offices and, even though he remained firmly a loyalist, he was accorded all the rights of citizenship, and was never molested during the Revolution. He died in 1781.
Material excerpted or adapted from Esther Munroe Swift's
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Activities & Points of Interest Goings-on in and near Fairfax Covered Bridge
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Contact Info Emergency Services (Statewide): 911
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Churches, Ministries, Charitables Roman Catholic : St. Luke |
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Schools Franklin West Supervisory Union 802-849-2283 |
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This is a basic geographic reference, intended to show relative location of adjacent towns. Directional accuracy is limited to 16 compass points. There isn't even the slightest suggestion that one can necessarily travel directly from one town to the next (as in "You can't get there from here").
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