Editing Montgomery, Vermont (section)

==History==
The town of Montgomery was granted a charter by the [[Vermont General Assembly]] on March 15, 1780. Montgomery was named in honor of General [[Richard Montgomery]] (1738–1775), [[American Revolutionary War|Revolutionary War]] hero.<ref name="mhs">Branthoover, W.R. & Taylor, Sara, Montgomery Vermont - The History of a Town (1976, 1991, 2013) Montgomery Historical Society, Montgomery, Vermont</ref>

The Montgomery Historical Society was formed in 1974. The society was initially created to acquire and restore the [[St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church (Montgomery, Vermont)|St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church]] in Montgomery Village.<ref name="mhs" />

The following buildings and bridges in Montgomery are listed on the National Register of Historic Places:<ref>National Register of Historic Places listings in Franklin County, Vermont</ref>

* [[Comstock Covered Bridge (Montgomery, Vermont)|Comstock Covered Bridge]]
* [[Fuller Covered Bridge]]
* Hectorville Covered Bridge (Disassembled and stored awaiting restoration)
* [[Hopkins Covered Bridge]]
* [[Hutchins Covered Bridge]]
* [[Longley Covered Bridge]]
* [[West Hill Covered Bridge]]
* Montgomery House (Montgomery, Vermont)
* [[St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church (Montgomery, Vermont)|St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church]] (Now known as Pratt Hall, Montgomery Historical Society)
* First Baptist Church (Now known as Kelton Hall, Montgomery Center for the Arts)

In 2008, the state notified residents of the town, and twelve other towns in the adjacent counties of Lamoille and Orleans, that a review of health records from 1995 to 2006 had revealed that residents within {{convert|10|mi}} of the former asbestos mine on Belvidere Mountain had higher than normal rates of contracting [[asbestosis]]. The state and federal government continues to study this problem.<ref>{{cite book | author = Rathke, Lisa |title = Neighbors worry about mine's impact on health | publisher = Burlington Free Press | date = December 12, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://healthvermont.gov/enviro/asbestos/documents/VAG-Mine-Report120908.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=January 15, 2009 |archive-date=May 27, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100527130600/http://www.healthvermont.gov/enviro/asbestos/documents/VAG-Mine-Report120908.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> A critic replied that the entire basis of the study were three unidentified people who died from asbestosis from 1995 to 2005 out of a total population of 16,700.<ref>{{cite book | author = Avery, Don |title = Letter to the editor:The Vermont Department of Health has done a great disservice to the people of Eden and Lowell | publisher = the Chronicle | date = January 7, 2009}}</ref>