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About Plymouth, Vermont 
Windsor County
*Area, Population and Density rankings above refer to Plymouth's relative position among Vermont's 255 civic entities (9 cities, 242 towns, 4 gores and grants). Complete rankings are here.
Named Saltash in the charter, changed to Plymouth on in 1797 by the Vermont legislature. The original name derived from the municipal borough of Saltash, Cornwall, England. According to English place-name authorities, that community originally was named merely Ash, and derived from the presence of ash trees; then in the 13th or 14th Century Salt was added, probably to note either the presence of a salt works or the fact that the community was located on the estuary of the River Tamar, where the water is salt. At the time Benning Wentworth created Saltash in the Grants, George Clinton, who had been governor of New York from 1743 to 1753, represented Saltash, Cornwall, in parliament. As it happened, George Clinton died just four days after Saltash was granted, so he could never have heard about the honor Wentworth tried to pay him. It is not known why the people of Saltash in Vermont wanted their town renamed. Generally it has been assumed that Plymouth was chosen because Plymouth in Massachusetts was the place the Pilgrims had established their first permanent settlement. However, they obviously knew their English geography, too, because Plymouth in England is directly across the Tamar estuary from Saltash. The only place in Plymouth, Vermont, where the Saltash name has survived is in the name of the town's highest peak, Saltash Mountain, which is well over 3,000 feet high. Plymouth was the birthplace of US President Calvin Coolidge.
Material excerpted or adapted from Esther Munroe Swift's
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Activities & Points of Interest
Goings-on in and near Plymouth President Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Contact Info Emergency Services (Statewide): 911
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Churches, Ministries, Charitables United Church of Christ : Tyson United Church of Christ |
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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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