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Salisbury
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About Salisbury, Vermont
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Addison County
Chartered: November 3, 1761 (New Hampshire Grant)
Area: 19,262 Acres = 30.1 Square Miles [ Size Rank: 198* ]
Coordinates (Geographic Center): 73°06''W 43°54'N
Altitude: 340 feet ASL
Population (US Census, 2000): 1,090 [ Population Rank: 149* ]
Population Density (persons per square mile): 36.2 [ Density Rank: 119* ]
Tax Rates (2006): Homestead $1.4576; NonResidential $1.3085

*Area, Population and Density rankings above refer to Salisbury's relative position among Vermont's 255 civic entities (9 cities, 242 towns, 4 gores and grants). Complete rankings are here.

Most of the grantees were from Salisbury, Connecticut, and while the town of origin sometimes had something to do with the naming of the new town, it is more than coincidence that when Benning Wentworth executed the grant, James Cecil was the sixth Earl of Salisbury. Cecil was noted more as a horseman than for anything else, but Wentworth simply could not pass up the opportunity to flatter a nobleman.

Few of the grantees actually settled in the town, instead selling their rights to friends and neighbors, the best known of which were the Storys.

Material excerpted or adapted from Esther Munroe Swift's
Vermont Place-Names: Footprints of History
(Used with permission)

Activities & Points of Interest
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Goings-on in and near Salisbury
Calendar of Events provided by the Vermont Department of Tourism & Marketing.

Salisbury Historical Society

Contact Info
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Emergency Services (Statewide): 911
Hospital: Porter Medical Center (Middlebury) 802-388-7901
Town Clerk: Mary Anne Sullivan, 802-352-4228, PO Box 66 Salisbury, VT 05769

Churches, Ministries, Charitables
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United Church of Christ : United Church of Christ

Schools
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Addison Central Supervisory Union 802-382-1274
Salisbury Community School 802-352-4291

Neighboring Towns
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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").

Middlebury
Cornwall Salisbury Ripton
Goshen
Whiting Leicester

Utilities
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Notes about utilities:

  • One electric or phone company indicates that company serves the entire town. More than one of either indicates each serves different areas of town.
  • A listed cable company MIGHT mean the entire town is covered, but not necessarily. More than one listed indicates each serves different areas of town.
  • Unless your area is one served by Vermont's only gas utility, your only option is bottled gas (any dealer).
    Electric Central Vermont Public Service 800-451-2877
    Telephone Verizon 800-870-9999

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