''The Orleans County Monitor'' was a weekly newspaper published in

Barton, Vermont Barton is a town in Orleans County, Vermont, United States. The population was 2,872 at the 2020 census. The town includes two incorporated villages, Barton and Orleans. Approximately a quarter of the town's population lives in each of th ...

from January 8, 1872, to 1953. It was published by Ellery H. Webster in 1872. An

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veteran, he named it after the USS ''Monitor''. George H. Blake published the paper in 1877. The circulation was 1,400. Wallace Harry Gilpin owned the paper from 1904 to 1953.

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Newspaper Pages (1872-1912) on Chronicling America
Orleans County Monitor, The Orleans County Monitor, The Defunct newspapers published in Vermont 1872 establishments in Vermont 1953 disestablishments in Vermont Newspapers established in 1872 Publications disestablished in 1953 {{Vermont-newspaper-stub