Lyndon (Vermont)
Caledonia County
50-41725
Lyndon is a town in Caledonia County, the State of Vermont in the United States. It consists of several population centers, which Lyndonville as incorporated village with 1,207 inhabitants, is the center of the municipality ( according to the census of 2010); the total population of the town ( roughly equivalent to an integrated municipality in Germany ) amounts to 5,981 inhabitants. Other important places, unincorporated villages, are Lyndon, Lyndon Center, and East Lyndon.
The area was proclaimed in 1780 to colonize and divided among 54 settler families. Many of these settlers came from a regiment, which was stationed at Rhode Iceland during the American Revolutionary War. Lyndon was named after the eldest son of one of these settlers Josiah Lyndon Arnold, who became famous after his death by the first publication of poems on Vermont soil.
In the early years was Lyndon be reached at the mailing address Lindon: An error in the spelling of the post office was not long corrected.
In the area of London's five parishes are located: two of the United Church of Christ, and each one of the Assemblies of God, the Episcopal and the Roman Catholic Church. Schools through all grade levels; in addition, there are a private high school, the Lyndon Institute and Lyndon State College in Lyndonville.
Nearby places
Lyndonville, the capital of the velvet municipality, located directly to the north -south links Interstate 91 and U.S. Highway 5 on the northern outskirts of the village there is also the airport of the County, the Caledonia State Airport. Nearby places are:
- In the North: Orleans, 35 km (airline )
- In the East, Lancaster, 34 km
- In the South: St. Johnsbury, 10 km
- In the southwest of Marshfield, 35 km
- In the southwest of Montpelier, 54 km
- In the West: Hyde Park, 50 km
Sons and daughters of the town
- Charles W. Willard (1827-1880), politician and member of the U.S. House of Representatives