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== Historical timeline == {{cleanup rewrite|There are no citations and this should all be in prose form. Cut the non-notable things.|section|date=April 2022}} * '''1732''' – Chartered as Gallup's Canada, [[Massachusetts]] * '''1754''' – Chartered as Guilford, [[New Hampshire]] * '''1758''' – Chartered as Guilford, [[New York (state)|New York]] * '''1760 or 1761''' – First settler arrives, either [[Lucy Terry]] (1760) or Michah Rice (1761)<ref>Vincent Carretta notes that [[Lucy Terry]], who is credited as being the first woman [[African-American]] poet, moved to Guilford in 1760, raising six children in the town, contrary to reports that one Micah Rice was the town's first settler, as Rice did not arrive in Guilford until 1761. {{cite book|last=Caretta|first=Vincent|title=Lucy Terry Prince (c.1730-1821)|year=2001|publisher=Penguin|location=New York|isbn=9780140424300|pages=199|editor=Vincent Caretta}}</ref> * '''1782''' – First house and barn built in Guilford burn down * '''1791''' – Chartered as Guilford, Vermont * '''1791-1820''' – Guilford is most populous town in Vermont * '''1816''' – First [[Episcopal Church (United States)|Episcopal church]] in Vermont built in Guilford, [[Christ Church (Guilford, Vermont)|Christ Church]] * '''1817''' – Broad Brook House built, now houses the [[Guilford Country Store]] * '''1820''' – East Guilford Cotton Mill on Bee Barn Road burns down * '''1822''' – First Guilford Town Hall built on Guilford Center Road in Guilford Center, now historical museum * '''1837''' – [[Universalist Church of America|Universalist church]] built in Guilford Center * '''1855''' – [[Algiers, Vermont|Algiers]] (East Guilford) schoolhouse burns down * '''1884''' – Broad Brook Grange Hall #151 built in Guilford Center * '''1885''' – Green River Paper Mill burns down * '''1889''' – East Guilford Grist Mill, first mill built in Guilford, burns down * '''1900''' – [[United States Postal Service|Post offices]] close after establishment of RFD 3 * '''1934''' – Barn burns down on Yeaw Road, killing two young girls * '''1948''' – Guilford Recreation Club organized * '''1949''' – Broad Brook Fire Control organized * '''1949''' – Broad Brook Fire Control becomes Guilford Volunteer Fire Department * '''1954''' – First firehouse built in Algiers on Guilford Center Road * '''1957''' – Guilford Central School built, all old schoolhouses closed * '''1970''' – House burns down on Johnson Pasture Drive, killing four people * '''1972''' – Guilford Town Hall built on School Road * '''2005''' – New firehouse built on Guilford Center Road in Algiers * '''2007''' – Town constable given police cruiser, a step toward a town Police Department * '''2007''' – First full-time firefighter in Guilford
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