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About Chester, Vermont 
Windsor County
*Area, Population and Density rankings above refer to Chester's relative position among Vermont's 255 civic entities (9 cities, 242 towns, 4 gores and grants). Complete rankings are here.
Originally Flamstead (after a very old town in Hertfordshire), the grantees made no effort to settle it, and it was re-granted as New Flamstead in 1763. It was permanently settled in 1764 and renamed Chester in 1766, unquestionably for George Augustus Frederick, the eldest son of King George III, among whose hereditary titles was Earl of Chester. A progressive bunch they were, the early residents of Chester: they adopted their own Declaration of Independance in 1774, some twenty months ahead of the Continental Congress. Chester is the type of picture-postcard town that comes to mind when you think of Vermont. Just minutes from Bellows Falls and Springfield, the Village's beckoning Main Street, with its quaint shops and elegant buildings, offers your eyes respite from bustling cities. A traditional common with churches, restaurants, shops and lodging brings back the nostalgia of a bygone time.
Material excerpted or adapted from Esther Munroe Swift's
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Contact Info Emergency Services (Statewide): 911
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Churches, Ministries, Charitables Episcopal : St. Luke 802-875-6000 |
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Schools Windsor Southwest Supervisory Union 802-875-3365 |
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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").
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