Editing Vernon, Vermont (section)

==History==
The town was chartered in 1672 as part of the Massachusetts Grant. In 1736 the area was granted by Massachusetts as part of Fall Town, and in 1753 the area was granted as [[Hinsdale, New Hampshire|Hinsdale]]. When the [[Connecticut River]] was established as a boundary, two separate towns were created: [[Hinsdale, New Hampshire]] and Hinsdale, Vermont.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.virtualvermont.com/towns/vernon.html |title=Welcome to the Town of Vernon Website |publisher =Town of Vernon, Vermont|access-date= May 14, 2014}}</ref> The people who lived in Hinsdale, Vermont wanted a separate name, and in 1802 the Vermont legislature changed the town's name to Vernon.<ref>{{cite web|url =http://www.virtualvermont.com/towns/vernon.html|title=Vernon, Vermont |publisher =Virtual Vermont|access-date= May 14, 2014}}</ref> The name is said to have been chosen after [[George Washington|President George Washington's]] plantation home, [[Mount Vernon]].<ref>{{cite web|url =http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=25253|title=Profile for Vernon, Vermont, VT|publisher =ePodunk|access-date= May 14, 2014}}</ref>

Fort Bridgman, in Vernon, was burned in 1755, a casualty of the [[French and Indian War]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historicvermont.org/sites/html/history.html |title=Vermont History Timeline - www.HistoricVermont.org |access-date=December 17, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070609150236/http://www.historicvermont.org/sites/html/history.html |archive-date=June 9, 2007 }}</ref>