Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:
- That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
- We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
- On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.
By learning about Notown (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.
As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Notown. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.
Neighboring Counties ...
When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.
For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.
So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived: their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the west contained birth and death records; the county to the south contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.
If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.
Notown is located in Windsor County.
To see how the shape of Vermont's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Windsor County: Grafton (NH), Sullivan (NH), Addison, Bennington, Orange, Rutland & Windham.
Below are the counties that are near Notown. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Notown:
- Windsor County (The home county of Notown)
- The following are listed by their distance from Notown, with the one closest to Notown listed first.
- Stockbridge
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Stockbridge is located in Windsor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stockbridge
- Population from the 2020 Census: 704 people
- Gaysville
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Gaysville is located in Windsor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gaysville
- Barnard
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Barnard is located in Windsor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barnard
- Population from the 2020 Census: 929 people
- Barnard
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Bridgewater
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Bridgewater is located in Windsor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bridgewater
- Population from the 2020 Census: 967 people
- Prosper
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Prosper is located in Windsor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prosper
- Lilliesville
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Lilliesville is located in Windsor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lilliesville
- South Pomfret
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Pomfret
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Pomfret is located in Windsor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pomfret
- Population from the 2020 Census: 849 people
- Bethel
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Bethel is located in Windsor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bethel
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,939 people
- Emerson
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Emerson is located in Windsor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Emerson
- Bethel
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
- Woodstock
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Woodstock is located in Windsor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodstock
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,911 people
- Addison County
- The following are listed by their distance from Notown, with the one closest to Notown listed first.
- Hancock
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
- Goshen
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Goshen is located in Addison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goshen
- Population from the 2020 Census: 165 people
- Hancock
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Hancock is located in Addison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hancock
- Population from the 2020 Census: 334 people
- Lower Granville
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Lower Granville is located in Addison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lower Granville
- Granville
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Granville is located in Addison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Granville
- Population from the 2020 Census: 308 people
- Granville
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Leicester
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- Leicester is located in Addison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leicester
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,096 people
- Leicester
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- Leicester Junction
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Leicester Junction is located in Addison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leicester Junction
- Ripton
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Ripton is located in Addison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ripton
- Population from the 2020 Census: 566 people
- Ripton
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Salisbury
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Salisbury is located in Addison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salisbury
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,105 people
- Whiting
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Whiting is located in Addison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whiting
- Population from the 2020 Census: 412 people
- Bennington County
- Landgrove
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Landgrove is located in Bennington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Landgrove
- Population from the 2020 Census: 156 people
- Orange County
- The following are listed by their distance from Notown, with the one closest to Notown listed first.
- South Randolph
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
- South Randolph is located in Orange County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Randolph
- Randolph
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
- Randolph Center
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
- Randolph
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
- Randolph is located in Orange County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Randolph
- Population from the 2020 Census: 4,558 people
- Tunbridge
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- Braintree
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Braintree is located in Orange County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Braintree
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,189 people
- Braintree
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Braintree is located in Orange County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Braintree
- East Randolph
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- East Randolph is located in Orange County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Randolph
- Tunbridge
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Tunbridge is located in Orange County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tunbridge
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,335 people
- Braintree Hill
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Braintree Hill is located in Orange County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Braintree Hill
- North Randolph
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
- North Randolph is located in Orange County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Randolph
- South Strafford
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- Strafford
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- Rutland County
- The following are listed by their distance from Notown, with the one closest to Notown listed first.
- Killington
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Killington is located in Rutland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Killington
- Population from the 2020 Census: 749 people
- Sherburne
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Sherburne is located in Rutland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sherburne
- Telemark Village
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Telemark Village is located in Rutland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Telemark Village
- Killington Village
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Killington Village is located in Rutland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Killington Village
- West Bridgewater
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- West Bridgewater is located in Rutland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Bridgewater
- Pittsfield
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Mendon
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Mendon is located in Rutland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mendon
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,015 people
- Chittenden
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Chittenden is located in Rutland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chittenden
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,170 people
- Pittsfield
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Pittsfield is located in Rutland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pittsfield
- Population from the 2020 Census: 551 people
- Mendon
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Chittenden
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- East Pittsford
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- East Pittsford is located in Rutland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Pittsford
- Shrewsbury
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Shrewsbury is located in Rutland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shrewsbury
- Population from the 2020 Census: 979 people
- Washington County
- The following are listed by their distance from Notown, with the one closest to Notown listed first.
- Alpine Village
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Alpine Village is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alpine Village
- Roxbury
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Roxbury is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roxbury
- Population from the 2020 Census: 709 people
- Roxbury
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Warren
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Northfield Center
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Northfield Center is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Northfield Center
- Warren
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Warren is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Warren
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,667 people
- Grafton County (NH)
- The following are listed by their distance from Notown, with the one closest to Notown listed first.
- Meadow Brook Village
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Meadow Brook Village is located in Grafton County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadow Brook Village
- West Lebanon
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- West Lebanon is located in Grafton County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Lebanon
- Hanover
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Pinewood Village
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Pinewood Village is located in Grafton County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinewood Village
- Sachem Village
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Sachem Village is located in Grafton County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sachem Village
- Lebanon
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Etna
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- Etna is located in Grafton County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Etna
- Mascoma
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Mascoma is located in Grafton County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mascoma
- Enfield
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Montcalm
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Montcalm is located in Grafton County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Montcalm
- Lower Shaker Village
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Lower Shaker Village is located in Grafton County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lower Shaker Village
- Lyme
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Lyme is located in Grafton County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lyme
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,685 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lyme <1>
- Upper Shaker Village
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Upper Shaker Village is located in Grafton County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Upper Shaker Village
- Sullivan County (NH)
- The following are listed by their distance from Notown, with the one closest to Notown listed first.
- Plainfield
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Squag City
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Squag City is located in Sullivan County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Squag City
- Mill Village
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Mill Village is located in Sullivan County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mill Village
- Cornish
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Balloch
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Balloch is located in Sullivan County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Balloch
- Cornish City
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Cornish City is located in Sullivan County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cornish City
- Meriden
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Meriden is located in Sullivan County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meriden
- South Cornish
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
- South Cornish is located in Sullivan County (NH)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Cornish
- Claremont
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
- Washington County (NY)
- Hampton
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Hampton is located in Washington County (NY)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hampton
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Notown, see our County-by-County Page for Notown.
Cemeteries Near Notown ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Notown.
This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.
Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Notown - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Notown covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Notown, with the one closest to Notown listed first.
- Riverside Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Anthony Family Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Nye Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nye Cemetery
- The Nye Cemetery has also been known as:
- Nye Family Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2528160 <2>
- South Hill Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Mt. Pleasant Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Church of Our Saviour Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Hillside Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Bridgewater Hill Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Bridgewater Center Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Betsy Bartlett Grave
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Village Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Old Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Continue List (506 more) ...
- Wood - Clement Episcopal Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Maplewood Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- North Bridgewater Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
Nearby Communities in 1895 ...
We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<3>
While we didn't find Notown in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Notown.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Notown, with the one closest to Notown listed first.
- Sherburne
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Sherburne is located in Rutland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sherburne
- Barnard
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Gaysville
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Gaysville is located in Windsor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gaysville
- North Sherburne
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- North Sherburne is located in Rutland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Sherburne
- Stockbridge
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- West Bridgewater
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- West Bridgewater is located in Rutland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Bridgewater
- Bridgewater Corners
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Pittsfield
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Bridgewater
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- South Pomfret
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- East Barnard
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- East Barnard is located in Windsor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Barnard
- Mendon
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Continue List (18 more) ...
- West Woodstock
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- West Woodstock is located in Windsor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Woodstock
- Pomfret
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Pomfret is located in Windsor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pomfret
- Bethel
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Notown. See our List of 1890's Communities around Notown.
Newspapers Published in Notown ...
An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.
Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 9 newspapers that have been published in the area around Notown.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Notown, there are papers which were published within 18 miles [29 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Notown.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.
To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Notown:
- Websites specific to Vermont
- Pages specific to Windsor County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Addison County
- Bennington County
- Orange County
- Rutland County
- Washington County
- Grafton County
- Sullivan County
- Washington County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Vermont
Footnotes ...
| <1> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <2> | The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com. |
| <3> | We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Notown, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <4> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Notown) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |