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About Roxbury, Vermont 
Washington County
*Area, Population and Density rankings above refer to Roxbury's relative position among Vermont's 255 civic entities (9 cities, 242 towns, 4 gores and grants). Complete rankings are here.
Roxbury is one of the oldest place-names in New England, used first in Massachusetts in 1630 for a neighbor to (and now part of) Boston, which, after the fashion of the time has been spelled in every conceivable way. Writing in 1634, a townsman suggested that the town was so named because the western side of the town was so rocky. Many historians have pointed out that if it was named descriptively, it was extremely unique for that era. Nobody has a clear handle on how Vermont's Roxbury was named. Many of the original proprietors came from Connecticut, where a Roxbury had been incorporated in 1743. There also may have been a lingering fondness for the name on the part of the Vermonters who served under Washington at Roxbury (the Massachusetts one). One of the earliest settlers of Roxbury (the Vermont one) was Captain Benjamin Samson, who is said to have rung the church bell at Lexington to warn the Minute Men of the approaching British troops.
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 United Church of Christ : United Church of Christ |
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Schools Washington South Supervisory Union 802-485-7755 |
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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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