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About Stowe, Vermont 
Lamoille County
*Area, Population and Density rankings above refer to Stowe's relative position among Vermont's 255 civic entities (9 cities, 242 towns, 4 gores and grants). Complete rankings are here.
Benning Wentworth may have had in mind George Grenville, one of the most powerful men in English government when he named the town (Grenville was Prime Minister at the time of the Grant): Grenvile's mother owned the beautiful Stowe Castle in Buckinghamshire. However, records suggest the town is named for Stow, Massachusetts (the ending "e" added in the 19th century): the names of three of this town's grantees can be found in the records of that town, and in a 1788 proprietors' meeting held in Vermont, the sum of 30 shillings was approved to fetch those records. The village of Moscow is said to be so named because of a large circular saw blade hung in 1839, struck with a hammer to call men to work (alternately to call a school meeting). The sound was likened to the Great Bell of Moscow, the largest in the world, then in the news as having only recently been unearthed after lying buried for more than a hundred years (the 220 ton mammoth had fallen to the ground while being hung in 1734). Maria Von Trapp came here after escaping from the Nazis ("The Sound of Music") because it reminded her of her native Austria. Lying in the shadow of Mount Mansfield, Vermont's highest peak, Stowe is known as "the Ski Capital of the East".
Material excerpted or adapted from Esther Munroe Swift's
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Activities & Points of Interest
Goings-on in and near Stowe Cross-Country Skiing Covered Bridges
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Contact Info Emergency Services (Statewide): 911
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Churches, Ministries, Charitables Episcopal : St. John in the Mountains 802-253-7578 |
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Schools Lamoille South Supervisory Union 802-888-4541 |
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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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Places To Stay
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Utilities Notes about utilities:
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