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About Irasburg, Vermont 
Orleans County
*Area, Population and Density rankings above refer to Irasburg's relative position among Vermont's 255 civic entities (9 cities, 242 towns, 4 gores and grants). Complete rankings are here.
One of two towns (Ira in Rutland County being the other) named for Ira Allen, the principal grantee. Also named as grantees are General Roger Enos, Sr.; his wife, Jerusha, Sr.; son Roger, Jr., and daughter Jerusha, Jr., who later became Allen's wife. This charter is one of the few places in Vermont where women are listed as grantees in their own right; unique also is the use of Sr. and Jr. to designate mother and daughter of the same name. Fairly soon after the charter, Allen acquired all of the other grantees' lands. Stories that Allen had filled up the required number of grantees with false names and that he had "bought" the claims from himself are simply not true: most of the names listed in the charter are people well known to be friends of either the Enos or Allen familes or later listed in the 1790 census as living in other Vermont towns. Ira and the younger Jerusha were married in 1789. He wrote to his brother Levi: "I have married my favorite Miss Enos and brought her home." As a wedding present, he transferred title to all of Irasburg to her. In later years, Jersha said that at the time Ira gave her the town, she didn't think it was "worth a rush." Irasburg was caught up in Ira's financial disaster and all of Jerusha's land was sold at sheriff's auction for back taxes. Ira's nephew and adopted son Heman bought the land and gave it back to Jerusha.
Material excerpted or adapted from Esther Munroe Swift's
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Activities & Points of Interest
Goings-on in and near Irasburg Orleans County Historical Society Covered Bridges
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Contact Info Emergency Services (Statewide): 911
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Churches, Ministries, Charitables Nondenominational : Grace Brethren Church 802-754-2363 |
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Schools Orleans Central Supervisory Union 802-754-6945 |
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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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