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About Mount Holly, Vermont 
Rutland County
*Area, Population and Density rankings above refer to Mount Holly's relative position among Vermont's 255 civic entities (9 cities, 242 towns, 4 gores and grants). Complete rankings are here.
There once was a leftover wedge of land between Wallingford and Ludlow, granted in 1781 to Abraham Jackson and 29 others. inclusing 6 other Jacksons. There was a stipulation in the grant that Jackson Gore, as it was known, was to be part of Wallingford. The association was apparently not a happy one, because ten years later, residents of the gore, along with some neighbors in Wallingford and Ludlow petitioned the Legislature for a town of their own. The request was met, and Mount Holly is the result. There is no real explanation for the name. Taken on face value, the "Mount" part is relatively simple, the town being surrounded by mountains, making it sensible to create a separate town. "Holly" may have been just a word the residents found pleasant-sounding. Another possibility, slim though it may be, relates to the earliest settlers of the area having been Quakers. In 1676, the sect had purchased land in New Jersey and named it Mount Holly. The name of Vermont's town may have been a remembrance of one of the group's first sanctuaries in the US. Never having a population of more than 1,600 (1870). the town has more named villages than many others twice the size. Once known as Mechanicsville for the large number of mills and manufacturing concerns there, the most central village is now known as Belmont. Bowlsville is so named for a factory that once made wooden bowls; Goodellville is named for the J.A.Goodell sawmill and chair factory; Healdville is named the village's first postmaster; Hortonville (sometimes just Horton) is for some half-dozen familes by that name in the immediate area (there was also a Hortonville in Hubbardton, renamed Hortonia in 1963 to end long-standing confusion between the two). Tarbellville is named for Marshall Tarbell, who owned a cheese plant, a sawmill and a blacksmith shop in addition to the largest rake factory in New England at the time. A location between Healdville and the village of Mount Holly known as Summit (sometimes Summit Station) is where the final spike was driven into the Central Vermont Railway line linking Burlington and Boston.
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. Mary |
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Schools Rutland Windsor Supervisory Union 802-228-8359 |
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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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