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About Poultney, Vermont 
Rutland County
*Area, Population and Density rankings above refer to Poultney's relative position among Vermont's 255 civic entities (9 cities, 242 towns, 4 gores and grants). Complete rankings are here.
It seems certain that Benning Wentworth chose the name to honor one of England's richest and most powerful families. William Pulteney, or Poultney, was the first Earl of Bath. He had been educated at Christ Church, Oxford, and was considered a brilliant scholar and eloquent orator. A member of Parliament by the age of twenty, he served there for more than 50 years. For a time he was secretary of war and one of Sir Robert Walpole's most determined opponents. Walpole once said he feared Pulteney's tongue more than another man's sword. The area comprising present-day Wells and Poultney had been patented by New York as St. Catherine's (throughout the world, many a homesick Englishman has named a point of land St. Catherine's: for most colonials coming to the New World from England, the last sight they had of home was St. Catherine's Point on the Isle of Wight). All that remains of the New York patent is the name: Lake St. Catherine, a popular summer camp and state park area in the southwest corner of the town and its companion St. Catherine Mountain.
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 Episcopal : St. John 802-287-9631 |
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Schools Rutland Southwest Supervisory Union 802-287-5286 |
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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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