April 8, 2024
Rare VERMONT DRUGGIST-BARTON LANDING VT -NO LONGER HERE
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Rare VERMONT DRUGGIST-BARTON LANDING VT -NO LONGER In fact Barton Landing has been gone since 1908, I have inlcuded some of the History of Barton Landing below. I believe Barton Landing is now "Orleans" Vermont. Anyway some neat history - preserved in an early Vermont druggist bottle - what more could the collector want.. (why am I selling this bottle?). Thanks to the site for the History account provided below: "The Town of Barton was first granted by the legislature in response to a petition from some sixty Revolutionary War veterans in 1781 under the name "Providence" after their home town in Rhode Island, but was not chartered until October 20, 1789. In the intervening years, the number of grantees dropped to only 29, one of whom was Ira Allen, who was assigned 19/70 of the whole town. Another grantee was the first American naval hero, John Paul Jones, although he never took up residence in Barton . T are now two incorporated villages in the Town of Barton. Barton Village was incorporated on November 21, 1874. (Baldwin, 1921) It is located at the outlet of Crystal Lake a little bit south of the central part of the town's boundary. The second is Orleans Village, found at the northern corner of the town on Barton River incorporated in the first half of the 19th century. (Child, 1883) Before 1810 much of the land area that
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