|
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
About Canaan, Vermont 
Essex County
*Area, Population and Density rankings above refer to Canaan's relative position among Vermont's 255 civic entities (9 cities, 242 towns, 4 gores and grants). Complete rankings are here.
Canaan was chartered to a group of men from Connecticut and named for that state's Canaan. During the peak of the 18th century's religious fervor known as The Great Awakening, a score of Connecticut towns had been given biblical names, many of which were carried north to new towns in New Hampshire (Bethlehem, Hebron, Lebanon) and Vermont (Bethel, Goshen, Sharon). Biblically, Canaan is the land the Lord promised to the Israelites: "I am come down...to bring them...unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites". Developers in both Connecticut and Vermont promoted their towns as desirably rich and fertile, in both cases the name more euphemistic than anything else: the former were barren and rocky, the latter heavily forested and mountainous. The first US census (1791) recorded only 19 residents of Canaan. Ten years later, a new charter was issued, now including the former town of Norfolk, which had been chartered in 1782 and named also for a Connecticut town.
Material excerpted or adapted from Esther Munroe Swift's
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Activities
Goings-on in and near Canaan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Contact Info Emergency Services (Statewide): 911
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Churches, Ministries, Charitables Episcopal : St. Paul |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Schools Essex North Supervisory Union 802-266-3330 |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Neighboring Towns | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
This is a basic geographic reference, intended to show relative location of adjacent towns. Directional accuracy is limited to 16 compass points. There isn't even the slightest suggestion that one can necessarily travel directly from one town to the next (as in "You can't get there from here").
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Utilities Notes about utilities:
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
