Craftsbury is a
town
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Origin and use
The word "town" shares ...
in
Orleans County,
Vermont
Vermont () is a state in the northeast New England region of the United States. Vermont is bordered by the states of Massachusetts to the south, New Hampshire to the east, and New York to the west, and the Canadian province of Quebec to the ...
, United States. The population was 1,343 at the
2020 census. The town includes the unincorporated villages of Craftsbury, Craftsbury Common, Mill Village, and East Craftsbury.
History
The state granted the town to
Ebenezer Crafts
Ebenezer Crafts (1740 – 1810) was one of the founders of Craftsbury, Vermont, and Leicester Academy.
Crafts was born in Pomfret, Connecticut, and studied theology, graduating from Yale College in 1759.[gristmill
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s, a
hulling
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mill, two