Plymouth (Vermont)
Windsor County
50-56050
Plymouth is a town in Windsor County, the State of Vermont in the United States with 420 inhabitants ( according to the census of 2010).
Plymouth is located in Central Vermont in the midst of the Green Mountains. In the field of Town forth several rivers, the Black River and the Ottauquechee River and the North Branch Ottauquechee River. Mount Tom, at the foot of 1818 a cave was discovered rises on the northern boundary of the Town. In the main settlement area of the village Plymoth Notch, lies the farm of the Coolidge family, place of birth and burial place of the 30th President of the United States, Calvin Coolidge.
The Town was proclaimed on July 6, 1781 under the name of Saltash by Benning Wentworth, but it was settled from 1777. The first town meeting was about 1787; the exact date is not known. Finds of limestone and marble led to the establishment of quarries around 1800, but had the bad transport connections due to no lasting commercial success and were abandoned when other quarries were opened up as the in Rutland with railway lines.
In the urban center Tyson is a congregation of the United Church of Christ. Through the territory of the Town only lead country roads, no highways. The community was one of the 13 Towns of Vermont, which was cut off by Hurricane Irene in 2011 from the outside world.
Nearby Cities
All information bee-line distances.
- North: Killington, 15.0 km
- Northeast: Woodstock, 19.0 km
- East Hartland, 27.5 km
- Southeast: Reading, 11.5 km
- South: Ludlow, 15.5 km
- Southwest: Mt Holly, 11.5 km
- West: Shrewsbury, 10.5 km
- North West: Rutland City, 21.5 kilometers
Sons and daughters of the town
- Henry Moses Pollard (1838 - 1904), politician and representative in the U.S. House of Representatives
- William W. Stickney (1853 - 1902), politician and Governor of Vermont
- Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933), 30th President of the United States