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Victory’s post office opened in 1858

Most of Victory was built recently: 7% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1986. Below: maps from 1951 on and the census since 1810.

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How Victory began

When was Victory founded?

1858

The Victory post office opened in 1858, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Damon's Crossing (1884) and Gallup Mills (1887), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

First census: 6 in 18102020 census: 70168 years
Founding year: the first Victory post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Victory’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 Victory are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Boom and bustPeaked at 564 in 1890; 70 people lived here in 2020.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Victory, and 2 old place names are still on the map.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Victory’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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People over time

Victory, census by census

01002003004005006001850190019502000Peak: 564

Peaked at 564 in 1890; 70 people lived here in 2020.

21 censuses, 1810–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Victory’s Wikipedia page.

Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners and burying grounds

Victory had its own post office from 1858 to 1952. Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Victory
1858–1952
Damon's Crossing
1884–1896
Gallup Mills
1887–1925
18501940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Damon CrossingGallup Mills
3cemeteries and burying grounds inside Victory
North VictoryVictoryVictory Hill

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

The story so far

Victory, in brief

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

Victory is a town in Essex County, Vermont, United States. The population was 70 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Berlin, NH –VT Micropolitan Statistical Area. Victory was, along with neighboring Granby, one of the last two towns in Vermont to be linked to the electric grid, in 1963.

Its first post office opened in 1858. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 62 to 70 (+13%).

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

Timeline

Victory, 1858 to 1952

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1858Post officeThe Victory post office opens
  3. 1884Post officeThe Damon's Crossing post office opens
  4. 1887Post officeThe Gallup Mills post office opens
  5. 1890CensusPopulation peaks at 564
  6. 1896Post officeThe Damon's Crossing post office closes
  7. 20th century
  8. 1925Post officeThe Gallup Mills post office closes
  9. 1951On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  10. 1952Post officeThe Victory post office closes
By decade

Victory, decade by decade

Today3 recent
Rusted Farm Machinery Victory VT September 20182018Rusted Farm Machinery Victory VT September 2018Jacked Toyota FJ40 Victory VT September 20182018Jacked Toyota FJ40 Victory VT September 2018Victory vt highlight2004Victory vt highlight
On the map

Victory on the map, 1951 to 1988

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

Victory on the 1951 USGS mapVictory on the 1988 USGS map1951Burke 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 Victory.

Famous people

Famous people close to Victory

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

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Eleanor H. PorterAmerican novelist · b. 1868
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Chris HedgesAmerican journalist · b. 1956
Thaddeus StevensAmerican statesman · b. 1792
William StokoeScholar of American Sign Language · b. 1919
John W. WeeksAmerican politician · b. 1860
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Bob SmithAmerican physician and surgeon · b. 1879
Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

GranbyIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townKirbyIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townConcord1 historic placeA−Lunenburg1 historic placeA−Burke3 historic placesAEast HavenIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Victory’s history

What year was Victory founded?

The Victory post office opened in 1858, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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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 Wikimedia Commons (3), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.