Editing Caledonia County, Vermont (section)

== History ==
The county shares the same pre-Columbian history with the [[Northeast Kingdom]].

[[Rogers' Rangers]] were forced to retreat through the county following their attack on [[Saint-François-du-Lac, Quebec|Saint-Francis, Quebec]] in 1759. To confound their avenging pursuers, they had split up. One group came south over the summit into the [[Passumpsic River]] Valley.<ref>{{cite book | title=Sketches of Orleans, Vermont |year=1985 |isbn=0-9610860-2-5 |publisher=Mempremagog Press |author=Darrell Hoyt}}, page 1</ref>

Vermont was divided into two counties in March 1778. In 1781 the legislature divided the northernmost county, Cumberland, into three counties. Windham and Windsor Counties were located about where they are now. The northern remainder was called Orange County. The latter tract nearly corresponded with the old New York county of Gloucester, organized by that province March 16, 1770, with Newbury as the shire town.<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite book | author = Child, Hamilton. |title = Gazetteer of Lamoille and Orleans Counties, VT.; 1883-1884  | publisher = Hamilton Child |date=May 1887}}</ref>

On November 5, 1792, the legislature divided Chittenden and Orange Counties into six separate counties, as follows: Chittenden, Orange, Franklin, Caledonia, Essex, and Orleans.<ref name="autogenerated1" />  There is a supposition that the county was called [[Caledonia]], to commemorate the large number of Scottish settlers.<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20110928212917/http://www.e-referencedesk.com/resources/counties/vermont/orleans.html Orleans County, Vermont: History and Information]}}. E-referencedesk.com. Retrieved on April 12, 2014.</ref>

Caledonians joined the Union Army in response to a call for volunteers. In September 1861, they joined the Vermont [[6th Vermont Infantry]], and helped fill out Companies B, D and E. The regiment ultimately became part of the [[First Vermont Brigade]].<ref>{{Cite journal |first=Joan |last=Hueguenin |date=November 2011 |journal=Northeast Kingdom Civil War Roundtable |pages=4, 5 }}</ref>

In 2008, the county was declared a federal disaster area as the result of storms and flooding which occurred on July 18.<ref>{{cite book | author = Sutkowski, Matt |title = Part of Vt. declared a disaster area | publisher = Burlington Free Press | date = August 18, 2008}}</ref>