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About Moretown, Vermont 
Washington County
*Area, Population and Density rankings above refer to Moretown's relative position among Vermont's 255 civic entities (9 cities, 242 towns, 4 gores and grants). Complete rankings are here.
A certain story about the town's name has been repeated many times by historians who otherwise have been considered reliable: When the state was surveyed and parceled out into towns, the men responsible for the job laid out all of their surveys and found there was a chunk of land in the middle that was not accounted for. One of them said, "My God, more town!" Whoever thought up that story did not know his history very well; he should have known the town was named in the original grant, long before the state was surveyed. The true origin of the name is a matter for conjecture, partly because atlases of English-speaking nations show no record of any other town with this name. However, there is a tiny hamlet in England, about twenty miles northeast of London, that is called Moreton. Benning Wentworth might have had some reason for thinking of this place, which even today is surrounded by little villages with lovely names: Little End, Nine Ashes and Fiddler's Hamlet. Another possibility exists. Among the grantees of Moretown there were two men named Morehouse: Daniel and James (other members of the Morehouse family were named in other grants issued about the same time). Perhaps the family had asked for Morehousetown, and Wentworth, feeling that name was too unwieldy, shortened it to Moretown. Settlement was late and light. The largest population was recorded in 1840, when there were just over 1,400 inhabitants. The population has declined steadily ever since, even though the ski season brings in large numbers of sport-minded visitors.
Material excerpted or adapted from Esther Munroe Swift's
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Activities & Points of Interest
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Contact Info Emergency Services (Statewide): 911
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Churches, Ministries, Charitables Roman Catholic : St. Patrick |
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Schools Washington West Supervisory Union 802-496-2272 |
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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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