Editing Highgate, Vermont (section)

==History==
[[File:Grateful Dead at Franklin County Airport Concert Ticket (6-15-1995).jpg|thumb|180px|left|1995 Grateful Dead concert ticket]]
Highgate was named after [[Highgate]] in England.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ | title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States | publisher=Govt. Print. Off. | author=Gannett, Henry | year=1905 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n155 156]}}</ref>

The [[Grateful Dead]] played two shows in Highgate at the [[Franklin County State Airport]] in July 1994 and June 1995. An estimated 60,000 people attended in 1994 and an estimated 100,000 in 1995, when [[Bob Dylan]] opened and on-site camping was allowed.<ref>{{cite book |last1=The Editors of LIFE |title=LIFE The Grateful Dead - The Long Strange Trip of the World's Greatest Jam Band |date=August 16, 2019 |publisher=Time Home Entertainment |location=Essay by Patrick Leahy |isbn=978-1547852055 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kYOqDwAAQBAJ&q=highgate+vermont+largest+grateful+dead+concerts&pg=PT163 |access-date=July 1, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Hallenbeck |first1=Brent |title=VT security firm now ubiquitous |url=https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/money/2015/02/26/grateful-dead-phish-security-firm-turns/24009819/ |access-date=July 1, 2020 |work=Burlington Free Press |date=February 26, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Novack |first1=Jay |title=June 15 - Franklin County Airport - Highgate, VT |journal=Unbroken Chain |date=Fall 1995 |volume=October / November / December 1995 |issue=53 |page=21 |url=https://gdsets.com/magazines/uc53.pdf |access-date=July 1, 2020}}</ref>

In town, there is an egg farm which has 100,000 chickens. In 2008, the farm wanted to double its operation, requiring state permission. Neighbors objected to this increase.<ref>{{cite book | author = Page, Candace |title = Neighbors fear farm has the advantage | publisher = Burlington Free Press | date = July 17, 2008}}</ref>