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Addison County, Vermont

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—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
75historic places
—earliest paper
1785formed
37,363pop. 2020
141cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 75 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1966; 4 are also National Historic Landmarks. Most listings are in or near Middlebury, Shoreham, Orwell.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Vermont is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Addison titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

43 of 75 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

75 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Addison Baptist ChurchAddisonBuilding1978
Addison Town HallAddisonBuilding2022
Bottum FarmNew HavenBuilding2008
Bridge 26WeybridgeStructure2006
Bristol Downtown Historic DistrictBristolDistrict1983
Camp Marbury Historic DistrictFerrisburghDistrict2018
Cedar Swamp Covered BridgeWest SalisburyStructure1974
Chimney Point TavernAddisonBuilding1971
Chipman's PointOrwellBuilding1996
Cornwall General StoreCornwallBuilding2005
Cornwall Town HallCornwallBuilding1986
Cotton Free LibraryWeybridgeBuilding1996
Daniels, Capts. Louis and Philomene, HouseVergennesBuilding2001
District School No. 1PantonBuilding1980
District Six SchoolhouseShorehamBuilding1977
Doolittle, Colonel Ephraim and Sarah, FarmShorehamDistrict1995
East Monkton ChurchMonktonBuilding2023
East Shoreham Covered Railroad BridgeShorehamStructure1974
Fenn FarmMiddleburyDistrict1995
Field FarmFerrisburghDistrict1995
First Congregational ChurchOrwellBuilding2001
First Congregational Church of Cornwall ParsonageCornwallBuilding2015
Fletcher, Paris and Anna, HouseBridportBuilding1999
Frost, Robert, Farm NHLRiptonBuilding1968
Glen DaleCornwallBuilding2002
Halpin Covered BridgeMiddleburyStructure1974
Hamilton, John, FarmsteadBridportDistrict1993
Hand's CoveShorehamBuilding1980
Hawley's Ferry HouseFerrisburgBuilding1978
Heights, TheMiddleburyDistrict1988
Hoag Gristmill and Knight House ComplexStarksboroBuilding1980
House at 215 School StreetShorehamBuilding2005
Lampson SchoolNew HavenBuilding2001
Larrabee's Point ComplexShorehamBuilding1980
Leicester Meeting HouseLeicesterBuilding1988
Middlebury Gorge Concrete Arch BridgeMiddleburyStructure1991
Middlebury Village Historic District (Additional Documentation)MiddleburyDistrict1976
Middlebury Village Historic District (Boundary Increase)MiddleburyDistrict1980
Middlebury Village Historic District (Boundary Increase)MiddleburyDistrict2023
Monkton Borough Baptist ChurchMonktonBuilding1989
Monkton Town HallMonktonBuilding1978
Mount Independence NHLOrwellSite1971
New Haven Junction DepotNew HavenBuilding1978
Old Stone Blacksmith ShopCornwallBuilding1975
Orwell SiteOrwellSite1977
Pulp Mill Covered BridgeMiddleburyStructure1974
Ripton Community HouseRiptonBuilding1973
Rokeby NHLFerrisburgBuilding1974
Salisbury Congregational ChurchSalisburyBuilding2001
Salisbury Fish HatcherySalisburyDistrict1994
Salisbury Town HallSalisburyBuilding1995
Salisbury Village Blacksmith ShopSalisburyBuilding2020
School House and Town HallLeicesterBuilding1988
Shard VillaSalisburyDistrict1989
Shoreham Congregational ChurchShorehamBuilding2001
South Starksboro Friends Meeting House and CemeteryStarksboroBuilding1985
Stagecoach InnLeicesterBuilding1984
Starksboro Village Meeting HouseStarksboro VillageBuilding1985
Stone MillMiddleburyBuilding1973
Stone Row, OldMiddleburyBuilding1997
Stone, Ruth, HouseGoshenBuilding2016
Strong, Gen. Samuel, HouseVergennesBuilding1973
Strong, John, HouseAddisonBuilding1980
Strong, Samuel Paddock, HouseVergennesBuilding1979
Union ChurchNew HavenBuilding2000
Union MeetinghouseFerrisburgBuilding1978
University of Vermont Morgan Horse FarmWeybridgeDistrict1973
Vergennes Historic DistrictVergennesDistrict1976
Vergennes Residential Historic DistrictVergennesDistrict2003
Vergennes Station HouseFerrisburghBuilding2021
Waybury InnEast MiddleburyBuilding1983
Wesleyan Methodist ChurchWeybridgeBuilding1996
Wilcox-Cutts HouseOrwellBuilding1974
Willard, Emma, House NHLMiddleburyBuilding1966
Witherell FarmShorehamDistrict1993

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Addison was formed in 1785 (1785-10-18) from Rutland.

ADDISON created from RUTLAND.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Addison County population from 1790 to 2020 (Census historical series).

37k22k6,449179018001840188019101920196020002020
17901800182018401860188019001920194019501960198020002020
6,44913,41720,46923,58324,01024,17321,91218,66617,94419,44220,07629,40635,97437,363

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

141 cemeteries and 2 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 80 of 141 listed
NameLatLon
Abel Thompson Cemetery44.1856-73.15512
Adams Cemetery44.15037-73.36354
Adams Cemetery44.11233-73.38115
Advent - Smith Cemetery44.08172-73.28672
Allen Cemetery44.17952-73.32609
Bard-Merrill CemeteryNoneNone
Barnumtown Cemetery44.20747-73.16353
Basin Harbor Cemetery44.18728-73.36207
Belding Cemetery44.04644-73.18456
Bliss Cemetery43.94276-73.39512
Borough Cemetery44.24326-73.14294
Branch Cemetery43.92799-72.88536
Bridport Central Cemetery43.98531-73.31557
Briggs Hill Cemetery44.1279-73.03803
Brookins-Shellhouse CemeteryNoneNone
Brookside Cemetery43.86127-73.1131
Callender Cemetery43.93357-73.32526
Carter Cemetery44.18774-73.1797
Case Street Cemetery44.02666-73.09904
Central Cemetery43.96256-73.20984
Chipman Cemetery44.13812-73.22087
Choates Cemetery43.76867-73.23833
Collins Cemetery44.22806-73.19359
Congregational Cemetery44.06528-73.38302
Cooks Cemetery43.98324-73.02601
Cushman Cemetery44.00654-73.03808
East Monkton Cemetery44.20505-73.10317
East Shoreham Cemetery43.86871-73.25815
Eaton Cemetery44.08848-73.39314
Elmwood Cemetery43.97692-72.8423
Eubar - Odette Cemetery44.07497-72.95113
Evergreen Cemetery43.94712-73.22596
Evergreen Cemetery44.11604-73.15992
First Weybridge Hill Cemetery44.03458-73.20808
Foote Street Cemetery43.99839-73.13484
Friends Cemetery44.13437-73.00045
G F Emmons Cemetery43.86457-73.20063
Gage Cemetery44.19854-73.26445
Galvin Cemetery43.95665-73.00259
Gea Cemetery43.98589-73.04872
Gee Cemetery43.98588-73.0487
Goshen Cemetery43.84992-73.02138
Grandview Cemetery44.08449-73.30234
Green CemeteryNoneNone
Green Mount Cemetery44.24838-73.06251
Greenwood Cemetery44.13089-73.09401
Hack Cemetery43.83659-73.25011
Hallock Cemetery44.22246-73.01671
Hamblin CemeteryNoneNone
Hanks Yard Cemetery44.06406-73.30314
Hawley Cemetery44.14344-73.27811
Hillsboro Cemetery44.2059-73.03215
Hindes Cemetery44.03327-73.3402
Horan Cemetery44.20088-73.12179
Hubbard Cemetery43.95298-72.82067
Jennison Cemetery43.87422-73.33373
Jerusalem Cemetery44.1694-72.98461
Johnson Cemetery44.09623-72.9647
Kellogg-Field Cemetery44.2065-73.34047
Kent Cemetery44.14059-73.34759
Kirby Cemetery43.95652-72.97908
Knapp Cemetery43.87776-73.28227
Lakeview Cemetery43.79827-73.36259
Lakeview Cemetery43.88616-73.33095
Lakeview Cemetery44.08581-73.39421
Lapell Cemetery43.86347-73.27988
Lee Cemetery44.10944-72.99808
Lewis Cemetery43.94061-72.88761
Little Ireland Cemetery44.19591-72.99896
MacIntosh Cemetery44.17174-73.2589
Maple Cemetery44.11008-73.00084
Marsh Sstterly CemeteryNoneNone
Marys Cemetery44.00717-73.18012
Mazham Cemetery43.92764-72.91951
Meehan CemeteryNoneNone
Merrill Cemetery44.14179-73.00359
Monkton Ridge Cemetery44.2541-73.12462
Mount Saint Joseph Cemetery44.14265-73.09935
Mountain View Cemetery43.80409-73.26784
Munger Street Cemetery44.05604-73.11461
Historical populated places — 2 of 2
NameLatLon
Branch School43.92812-72.884
Towtaid43.8659-73.10761

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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