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History · Highgate Center

Highgate Center’s post office opened in 1867, and 25% of its homes were built before 1940

2 places in town are on the National Register. Below: maps from 1914 on.

1867first post office
2on the National Register
25%homes built before 1940
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How Highgate Center began

When was Highgate Center founded?

1867

The Highgate Center post office opened in 1867, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 361159 years
Founding year: the first Highgate Center post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Highgate Center’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Highgate Center are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.On the map since 19145 editions of the USGS map, 1914 to 1987. Watch Highgate Center change.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Highgate Center’s history is told.

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On the map

Highgate Center on the map, 1914 to 1987

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Highgate Center. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Highgate Center on the 1914 USGS mapHighgate Center on the 1943 USGS mapHighgate Center on the 1964 USGS mapHighgate Center on the 1972 USGS mapHighgate Center on the 1987 USGS map1914St Albans sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Highgate Center.

The story so far

Highgate Center, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Highgate Center yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Highgate Center is the primary village and a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Highgate, Franklin County, Vermont, United States. As of the 2020 census it had a population of 361, out of 3,472 in the entire town of Highgate.

Its first post office opened in 1867.

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

By decade

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Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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On the National Register

2 historic places in Highgate Center

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

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National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Famous people

Famous people close to Highgate Center

Nobody well known was born in Highgate Center itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Chester A. ArthurPresident of the United States from 1881 to 1885 · b. 1829
Samuel CurtisAmerican Union Army general · b. 1805
Warren AustinAmerican politician · b. 1877
E. Mason HopperFilm director · b. 1885
John Fillmore HayfordAmerican geodesist · b. 1868
John Godfrey SaxeAmerican poet · b. 1816

Questions about Highgate Center’s history

What year was Highgate Center founded?

The Highgate Center post office opened in 1867, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From U.S. Geological Survey historical maps. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.