This is Vermont: Stamford Traditional Cache
This is Vermont: Stamford
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The scoop on Stamford:
Chartered: March 3, 1753 (New Hampshire Grant)
Area: 25,339 Acres = 39.59 Square Miles [ Size Rank: 128* ]
Coordinates (Geographic Center): 73°04''W 42°45'N
Altitude: 1,131 feet ASL
Population (US Census, 2000): 813 [ Population Rank: 180* ]
Population Density (persons per square mile): 20.5 [ Density Rank: 188* ]
Tax Rates (2006): Homestead $1.0053; NonResidential $1.3438
The 1753 date, for the first grant of Stamford, makes this one of the oldest of the New Hampshire Grants. The outbreak of the last of the French and Indian wars kept the grantees from making a settlement within the required amount of time, so Wentworth renewed their grant in 1761.
There never has been any certainty about the origin of the Stamford name. Some place-name aficionados suggest that it derives from the Connecticut town of the same name, which was named in 1642 for Stamford in Lincolnshire, England. Others have suggested that Stamford in Vermont was named for George Grey, the fifth Earl of Stamford, who didn't become the Earl until 1768.
Material excerpted or adapted from Esther Munroe Swift's
Vermont Place-Names: Footprints of History via Virtual Vermont
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