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About Weston, Vermont 
Windsor County
*Area, Population and Density rankings above refer to Weston's relative position among Vermont's 255 civic entities (9 cities, 242 towns, 4 gores and grants). Complete rankings are here.
The present town of Weston was originally part of Andover, but the ridge created by Markham and Terrible Mountains made it impossible to get from one side of town to the other. When the Legislature created the new town, its name was obvious: that part of Andover had always been known as West Town. The chief village is picturesque Weston, complete with bandstand on the village green. It is home to a number of shops, including the famous Vermont Country Store. There is a smaller hamlet in the southern tip of the town which has always been known as The Island: a settlement grew where a canal was cut across a bend in the West River to power a mill. The river rises in the north and flows southeast to join the Connecticut River at Brattleboro. There are still some maps which use the original Abenaki name Wantastiquet ("at the head" or "source of the river"), an appropriate name: in its 40-mile course it drops over 2,000 feet while draining some 430 square miles.
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 Methodist : Old Parish Church 802-875-3838 |
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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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Utilities Notes about utilities:
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