Guilford is a

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in Windham County,

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, United States. The town was named for Francis North, 1st Earl of Guilford. The population was 2,120 at the 2020 census.

Geography

According to the

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, the town has a total area of 40.0 square miles (103.5 km²), of which 39.9 square miles (103.3 km²) is land and 0.1 square mile (0.2 km²) (0.20%) is water.

Demographics

As of the

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of 2010, there were 2,121 people, 902 households, and 574 families residing in the town. The

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was 53.2 people per square mile (20.5/km²). There were 1,038 housing units at an average density of 26.0 per square mile (10.0/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 97.2%

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, 0.5%

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, 0.0% Native American, 0.2% Asian, 0.6% from other races, and 1.5% from two or more races.

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or Latino of any race were 1.1% of the population. There were 902 households, out of which 25.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 49.9% were husbands and wives living together, 8.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 5.4% had a male householder with no wife present. 36.4% of all households were non-families, and 27.1% of all households were made up of individuals. The average household size was 2.35 and the average family size was 2.85. In the town, the population was spread out, with 22.2% 19 years old or younger, 3.9% from 20 to 24, 23.0% from 25 to 44, 37.7% from 45 to 64, and 14.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 46.3 years. For every 100 females, there were 99.9 males. The median income for a household in the town was $57,674, and the median income for a family was $66,563. Full-time working males had a median income of $42,250 versus $31,725 for females. The

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for the town was $28,612. About 2.9% of families and 7.6% of the population were below the

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, including 12.2% of those under the age of 18 and 2.5% of those 65 and older. 2013 Guilford Country Store Broad Brook House Guilford Vermont

Historical timeline

* 1732 – Chartered as Gallup's Canada,

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* 1754 – Chartered as Guilford,

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* 1758 – Chartered as Guilford, New York * 1760 or 1761 – First settler arrives, either

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(1760) or Michah Rice (1761) * 1782 – First house and barn built in Guilford burn down * 1791 – Chartered as Guilford, Vermont * 1791-1820 – Guilford is most populous town in Vermont * 1816 – First Episcopal church in Vermont built in Guilford, Christ Church * 1817 – Broad Brook House built, now houses the Guilford Country Store * 1820 – East Guilford Cotton Mill on Bee Barn Road burns down * 1822 – First Guilford Town Hall built on Guilford Center Road in Guilford Center, now historical museum * 1837 – Universalist church built in Guilford Center * 1855 –

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(East Guilford) schoolhouse burns down * 1884 – Broad Brook Grange Hall #151 built in Guilford Center * 1885 – Green River Paper Mill burns down * 1889 – East Guilford Grist Mill, first mill built in Guilford, burns down * 1900 –

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close after establishment of RFD 3 * 1934 – Barn burns down on Yeaw Road, killing two young girls * 1948 – Guilford Recreation Club organized * 1949 – Broad Brook Fire Control organized * 1949 – Broad Brook Fire Control becomes Guilford Volunteer Fire Department * 1954 – First firehouse built in Algiers on Guilford Center Road * 1957 – Guilford Central School built, all old schoolhouses closed * 1970 – House burns down on Johnson Pasture Drive, killing four people * 1972 – Guilford Town Hall built on School Road * 2005 – New firehouse built on Guilford Center Road in Algiers * 2007 – Town constable given police cruiser, a step toward a town Police Department * 2007 – First full-time firefighter in Guilford

Notable people

* Benjamin Carpenter,

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, buried in West Guilford's Carpenter Cemetery * James Elliot, author and

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from

* Halbert S. Greenleaf, former US Congressman from New York * Christopher Hitchens, writer, was Olivia Wilde's babysitter for a time * Jonathan Hunt, former Lieutenant Governor of Vermont and early landowner in Guilford * Charles E. Phelps, US Army brigadier general;

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recipient; US congressman for

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in the

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and abolitionist *

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, Austrian pianist * John Shepardson, one of the first white settlers of Guilford. Soldier in the

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, justice of the

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, African-American poet * Royall Tyler, playwright * Olivia Wilde, actress.

References

Further reading *Wheatley, Phillis; Carretta, Vincent (ed.) ''Phylis Wheatley, Complete Writings'' New York: Penguin, 2001. p. 199

External links

Town of Guilford Website
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