Editing Greensboro, Vermont (section)

==History==
Greensboro was chartered in 1781.  The town was named for Timothy Green, one of the original charter recipients and an original landowner under the charter.  However, there is no evidence that he ever visited the town, and his land was sold for non-payment of taxes a few decades after he received it.<ref name = "First200">Peter D. Watson, Wilhelmina Smith, Lewis Hill, Nancy Hill, Sally Fisher, Patricia Haslam, Rhoda Metraux, Dorothy Ling, and Gail Sangree, ''The History of Greensboro: The First Two Hundred Years''. Greensboro Historical Society, 1990. Pp. 13-14.</ref><sup>:13-14</sup> Only three of the original proprietors settled in the town; most likely, the others were land speculators who sold their land to others or let it be sold at tax sales when buyers could not be found.<ref name="First200" /><sup>:18</sup>

The [[Bayley Hazen Military Road]], built before the town was chartered, allowed its development. The road passed to the west of Caspian Lake, and a wooden [[blockhouse]] was constructed there in 1779<ref name="First200" /><sup>:21-22</sup><ref name="WPA">Federal Writers Project, ''Vermont: A Guide to the Green Mountain State''.  Vermont State Planning Board/Works Progress Administration, 1937. P. 242.</ref> on what is now known as Block House Hill<ref name="First200" /><sup>:frontispiece</sup>. In 1781, the blockhouse's party of four was attacked by [[Abenaki]]; two were killed and two were captured.<ref name="First200" /><ref name="WPA" /><sup>:22-23</sup> A second road was built by [[Timothy Hinman]] between 1791 and 1793. This road, which came to be known as the [[Hinman Settler Road]], branched off from the Bayley-Hazen in Greensboro and continued to [[Derby, Vermont|Derby]]. These two roads were of major importance to the settlement of northern Vermont.<ref name="First200" /><sup>:23</sup>

The town sent many soldiers to fight in the [[American Civil War|Civil War]]. Of eight prisoners of war from the town, confined to [[Andersonville Prison]], one returned.<ref name=c151222>{{Cite news |first=Joseph |last=Gresser |title=Greensboro's history - from Andersonville to Garbo | newspaper=The Chronicle |location=Barton, Vermont |pages= 1B |date=December 22, 2015}}</ref>

[[File:Caspian Lake from the golf links, Greensboro, Vt (69091).jpg|thumb|left|Postcard image {{circa|1940}}]]
In the early 20th century, a development near the Highland Lodge contained restrictive covenants in the title forbidding subsequent resale to Jews. These restrictions were found to be illegal by the [[US Supreme Court]] in [[Shelley v. Kraemer|1948]].<ref name=c151222/>

The Highland Lodge opened in 1954. It had a hotel and restaurant that was open year-round. It had a beach on Caspian Lake with sailboats, kayaks, and canoes; children's play programs and nature programs in the summer and nature hikes and cross-country ski trails in the winter. Special events included wedding, business retreats, music programs, workshops, and talks. It was largely closed in 2011,<ref>{{Cite news | first=Bethany M. | last=Dunbar | title=Highland Lodge closes its doors after 57 years | newspaper=the Chronicle |location=Barton, Vermont | pages= 1 | date=October 12, 2011 }}</ref> being open only for room and cottage rentals, but a group of investors purchased the property in December 2016 and have reopened the Lodge and restaurant seasonally.{{citation needed|date = August 2024}}