The Hubbardton post office opened in 1811, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, East Hubbardton (1855) and Hortonville (1858), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
First census: 404 in 17902020 census: 735215 years
Founding year: the first Hubbardton post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
What stands out about Hubbardton’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Lost two-thirds of its people between 1830 and 1970, then grew 3-fold.
24 censuses, 1790–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Hubbardton’s Wikipedia page.
Places that used to be
Lost post offices, old corners and burying grounds
Hubbardton had its own post office from 1811 to 1987. Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.
Hubbardton
1811–1987
East Hubbardton
1855–1907
Hortonville
1858–1913
18101920today
Hamlets and corners on the map
East HubbardtonHortonia
6cemeteries and burying grounds inside Hubbardton
Bradley FamilyEast HubbardtonHortonvilleHubbardton NorthPleasant ViewRessegrie Family
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
The story so far
Hubbardton, in brief
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Hubbardton yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Hubbardton is a town in Rutland County, Vermont, United States. The town was named for Thomas Hubbard, a landholder. The population was 735 at the 2020 census. The town was the site of the Battle of Hubbardton, where British forces attacked Americans during the Saratoga Campaign of 1777.
Its first post office opened in 1811. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 706 to 735 (+4%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
From the old history books
What they wrote about Hubbardton in 1886
Passages that mention Hubbardton, cut from the printed page as they were published.
History of Rutland County, Vermont, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers1886 · page 455Read the page →
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Town of Benson. 455 southwestern part and extends into Fairhaven and Castleton. There are several smaller ponds in various parts of the town, giving to the general landscape a high order of natural beauty. Hubbardton River, with its tributaries, is the principal stream ; it rises in the town of Hubbardton and flows southwesterly through Benson and into Westhaven.
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History of Rutland County, Vermont, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers1886 · page 865Read the page →
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The first saw-mill in town, as before stated, " the Hunt mill," was erected on the lower fall of Hubbardton River in 1785. There have been three other saw-mills on that stream in town ; the first being a saw-mill erected by Erastus Coleman about one and one-half miles above the Hunt mill ; Ouartus Torrey operated one between the spoke factory site and the Coleman mill, and Isaac Norton ran one between the Torrey mill and the spoke factory.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Timeline
Hubbardton, 1811 to 1987
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
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 Wikimedia Commons (3), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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