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About Randolph, Vermont 
Orange County
*Area, Population and Density rankings above refer to Randolph's relative position among Vermont's 255 civic entities (9 cities, 242 towns, 4 gores and grants). Complete rankings are here.
A group of men from Hanover, New Hampshire formed a company to purchase a town in Vermont, and set about locating the owners of a tract originally patented by New York as Middlesex (covering parts of present-day Randolph and Bethel). One of the group, having searched all over New York and New Jersey, reported that the patent holders could not be found. The group then applied to Vermont for a charter and it was granted. Vermont was making every effort to have Congress accept her into the Union, thus it is easy to see that the name honors Edmund Randolph, briefly an aide to Washington, then one of Virginia's delegates to the Constitutional Congress. He ultimately declined to sign the Constitution, not believing it republican enough, but favored Virginia's ratification of the document for the sake of political expediency. Just five weeks after this town was chartered, Congress appointed a committee of five to confer with a committee from the New Hampshire Grants (Vermont) regarding the question of admitting Vermont to the Union. Edmund Randolph was one of the five men appointed to the Congressional Committee. It would be another ten years before Vermont became the fourteenth state, but in the summer of 1781, it certainly must have looked like the goal was in sight.
Material excerpted or adapted from Esther Munroe Swift's
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Activities & Points of Interest
Goings-on in and near Randolph Covered Bridges
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Contact Info Emergency Services (Statewide): 911
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Churches, Ministries, Charitables Episcopal : St. John 802-728-9910 |
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Schools Orange Southwest Supervisory Union 802-728-5052 |
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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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