Editing Guilford, Vermont

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'''Guilford''' is a [[New England town|town]] in [[Windham County, Vermont|Windham County]], [[Vermont]], United States. The town was named for [[Francis North, 1st Earl of Guilford]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=25139|title=Profile for Guilford, Vermont|publisher=[[ePodunk]]|access-date=May 10, 2010|archive-date=February 8, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100208160728/http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=25139|url-status=dead}}</ref> The population was 2,120 at the [[2020 United States Census|2020 census]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/profile?g=0600000US5002530925|title=Census - Geography Profile: Guilford town, Windham County, Vermont|access-date=December 30, 2021}}</ref>

== Geography ==
According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the town has a total area of {{convert|40.0|mi2|km2}}, of which {{convert|39.9|mi2|km2}} is land and {{convert|0.1|mi2|km2}} (0.20%) is water.

==Demographics==
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|1800= 2256
|1810= 1872
|1820= 1862
|1830= 1760
|1840= 1525
|1850= 1389
|1860= 1291
|1870= 1277
|1880= 1096
|1890= 870
|1900= 782
|1910= 769
|1920= 684
|1930= 663
|1940= 686
|1950= 796
|1960= 823
|1970= 1108
|1980= 1532
|1990= 1941
|2000= 2046
|2010= 2121
|2020= 2120
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As of the [[census]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=May 14, 2011|title=U.S. Census website}}</ref> of 2010, there were 2,121 people, 902 households, and 574 families residing in the town. The [[population density]] was {{convert|53.2|/sqmi|/km2|disp=preunit|people&nbsp;|people|abbr=out}}. There were 1,038 housing units at an average density of {{convert|26.0|/sqmi|/km2|abbr=out}}. The racial makeup of the town was 97.2% [[White (U.S. Census)|White]], 0.5% [[African American (U.S. Census)|African American]], 0.0% [[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]], 0.2% [[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]], 0.6% from [[Race (U.S. Census)|other races]], and 1.5% from two or more races.  [[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]] of any race were 1.1% of the population.

There were 902 households, out of which 25.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 49.9% were husbands and wives living together, 8.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 5.4% had a male householder with no wife present. 36.4% of all households were non-families, and 27.1% of all households were made up of individuals. The average household size was 2.35 and the average family size was 2.85.

In the town, the population was spread out, with 22.2% 19 years old or younger, 3.9% from 20 to 24, 23.0% from 25 to 44, 37.7% from 45 to 64, and 14.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 46.3 years. For every 100 females, there were 99.9 males.

The median income for a household in the town was $57,674, and the median income for a family was $77,431.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Explore Census Data |url=https://data.census.gov/profile?g=060XX00US5002530925 |access-date=June 8, 2023 |website=data.census.gov}}</ref> Full-time working males had a median income of $42,250 versus $31,725 for females. The [[per capita income]] for the town was $28,612. About 2.9% of families and 7.6% of the population were below the [[poverty line]], including 12.2% of those under the age of 18 and 2.5% of those 65 and older.

[[File:2013 Guilford Country Store Broad Brook House Guilford Vermont.jpg|thumb|right|260px|[[Guilford Country Store]], built in 1817 as Broad Brook House]]
[[Image:Guilford vermont covered bridge 20040820.jpg|thumb|260px|A [[covered bridge]] in Guilford]]

== Historical timeline ==
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* '''1732''' &ndash; Chartered as Gallup's Canada, [[Massachusetts]]
* '''1754''' &ndash; Chartered as Guilford, [[New Hampshire]]
* '''1758''' &ndash; Chartered as Guilford, [[New York (state)|New York]]
* '''1760 or 1761''' &ndash; 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''' &ndash; First house and barn built in Guilford burn down
* '''1791''' &ndash; Chartered as Guilford, Vermont
* '''1791-1820''' &ndash; Guilford is most populous town in Vermont
* '''1816''' &ndash; First [[Episcopal Church (United States)|Episcopal church]] in Vermont built in Guilford, [[Christ Church (Guilford, Vermont)|Christ Church]]
* '''1817''' &ndash; Broad Brook House built, now houses the [[Guilford Country Store]]
* '''1820''' &ndash; East Guilford Cotton Mill on Bee Barn Road burns down
* '''1822''' &ndash; First Guilford Town Hall built on Guilford Center Road in Guilford Center, now historical museum
* '''1837''' &ndash; [[Universalist Church of America|Universalist church]] built in Guilford Center
* '''1855''' &ndash; [[Algiers, Vermont|Algiers]] (East Guilford) schoolhouse burns down
* '''1884''' &ndash; Broad Brook Grange Hall #151 built in Guilford Center
* '''1885''' &ndash; Green River Paper Mill burns down
* '''1889''' &ndash; East Guilford Grist Mill, first mill built in Guilford, burns down
* '''1900''' &ndash; [[United States Postal Service|Post offices]] close after establishment of RFD 3
* '''1934''' &ndash; Barn burns down on Yeaw Road, killing two young girls
* '''1948''' &ndash; Guilford Recreation Club organized
* '''1949''' &ndash; Broad Brook Fire Control organized
* '''1949''' &ndash; Broad Brook Fire Control becomes Guilford Volunteer Fire Department
* '''1954''' &ndash; First firehouse built in Algiers on Guilford Center Road
* '''1957''' &ndash; Guilford Central School built, all old schoolhouses closed
* '''1970''' &ndash; House burns down on Johnson Pasture Drive, killing four people
* '''1972''' &ndash; Guilford Town Hall built on School Road
* '''2005''' &ndash; New firehouse built on Guilford Center Road in Algiers
* '''2007''' &ndash; Town constable given police cruiser, a step toward a town Police Department
* '''2007''' &ndash; First full-time firefighter in Guilford

== Notable people ==
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* [[Benjamin Carpenter]], [[List of lieutenant governors of Vermont|Lieutenant Governor]], buried in West Guilford's Carpenter Cemetery<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_M6xFv628ziMC |quote=History of Vermont: Natural, Civil, and Statistical, by Zadock Thompson. |title=History of Vermont: Natural, Civil, and Statistical |first=Zadock |last=Thompson |year=1842 |page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_M6xFv628ziMC/page/n88 83]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KLY3AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA118 |title=Records of the Governor and Council of the State of Vermont |publisher=E. P. Walton |location=Montpelier |volume=1 |year=1873 |pages=117–118}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qH6HdWPdoj4C&pg=PA229 |title=Inscriptions on the Grave Stones in the Grave Yards of Northampton and of the Other Town in the Valley of the Connecticut |first=Thomas |last=Bridgman |year=1850 |page=195|publisher=Heritage Books |isbn=9780788405907 }}</ref>
* [[James Elliot (politician)|James Elliot]], author and [[United States Representative]] from [[Vermont]]<ref>{{cite dictionary|url= http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=E000122|title=ELLIOT, James, (1775 - 1839)|dictionary= Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date= October 24, 2012}}</ref>
* [[Halbert S. Greenleaf]], former US Congressman from New York<ref>{{cite web|url=  http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000432|title=GREENLEAF, Halbert Stevens, (1827 - 1906)|publisher= Biographical Directory of the United StatesCongress|access-date= May 15, 2014}}</ref>
*[[Christopher Hitchens]], writer, was Olivia Wilde's babysitter for a time<ref name=Elle>{{cite web|title=Fashion Spotlight: Olivia Wilde|url=http://www.elle.com/fashion/spotlight/fashion-spotlight-olivia-wilde-416074|work=[[Elle (magazine)|Elle]]|access-date=May 1, 2014|author=Christopher Hitchens|date=February 23, 2010}}</ref>
* [[Jonathan Hunt (Vermont lieutenant governor)|Jonathan Hunt]], former [[List of lieutenant governors of Vermont|Lieutenant Governor of Vermont]] and early landowner in Guilford<ref>{{cite book|last=Jennings|first=Isaac|title=Memorials of a Century: Embracing a Record of Individuals and Events, Chiefly in the Early History of Bennington, Vt., and Its First Church|date=1869|publisher=Gould and Lincoln|page=323|url=https://archive.org/details/memorialsacentu00jenngoog|quote=jonathan hunt northampton.}}</ref>
* [[Charles E. Phelps]], US Army brigadier general; [[Medal of Honor]] recipient; US congressman for [[Maryland]]<ref>{{cite dictionary|url= http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000292|title=PHELPS, Charles Edward, (1833 - 1908)|dictionary= Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date= October 24, 2012}}</ref>
* [[John W. Phelps]], [[Brigadier General (United States)|brigadier general]] in the [[American Civil War]] and [[Abolitionism in the United States|abolitionist]]<ref>United States Military Academy Association of Graduates, [https://books.google.com/books?id=DVEuAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22john+wolcott+phelps%22+guilford&pg=PA73 Annual Report], 1885, pages 73-86</ref>
* [[Rudolf Serkin]], Austrian pianist<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1182421/bio|title=Rudolf Serkin|publisher= Internet Movie Database |access-date= October 24, 2012}}</ref>
* [[John Shepardson]], one of the first white settlers of Guilford. Soldier in the [[American Revolution]], justice of the [[Vermont Supreme Court]]<ref>{{cite book |last=Ullery |first=Jacob G. |date=1894 |title=Men of Vermont Illustrated |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Nvg_AAAAYAAJ |location=Brattleboro, VT |publisher=Transcript Publishing Company |page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Nvg_AAAAYAAJ/page/n166 169]}}</ref>
* [[Lucy Terry]], African-American poet<ref>{{cite book|last1=Gerzina|first1=Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina; researched with Anthony|title=Mr. and Mrs. Prince : how an extraordinary eighteenth-century family moved out of slavery and into legend|date=2008|publisher=Amistad|location=New York|isbn=978-0060510732|edition=1st|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/mrmrsprincehow00gerz}}</ref>
* [[Royall Tyler]], playwright<ref>{{cite web|url= https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:AhJ8QdAzl2wJ:www.vermonthistory.org/documents/findaid/tyler.pdf+&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESg3aW3iDzgLQP9BvFqrWDcmNb8sMduBRGft-aDmX2F-CaMmm2aFMhckdvBfVJfXgxeGBSi0ogFqXFh7StCzcLCF_P2CZlDBGczjr4OD0KBELyfGdjiEKriVLEIT4UXIk8lkbt0l&sig=AHIEtbQpFyFRy8vt_rshE-22-E2dDrDoTw|title=Royall Tyler Collection, 1753-1935 |publisher= Vermont Historical Society |access-date= October 24, 2012}}</ref>
* [[Olivia Wilde]], actress.<ref name="Wilde1">{{cite news |last=Vilkomerson |first=Sara |title=Wilde At Heart |work=The New York Observer |date=April 11, 2007 |url=http://www.observer.com/2007/wilde-heart |access-date=April 11, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071211231244/http://www.observer.com/2007/wilde-heart |archive-date=December 11, 2007  }}</ref>

==References==
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'''Further reading'''
*Wheatley, Phillis; Carretta, Vincent (ed.) ''Phylis Wheatley, Complete Writings'' New York: Penguin, 2001. p.&nbsp;199

==External links==
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* [http://www.guilfordvt.net/ Town of Guilford Website]

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