Trip 9 - Granville, Hancock And Sharon

It was my 36th birthday yesterday and I wanted to do a 251 jaunt to celebrate.  After all the hot, sticky weather we've been having, we were blessed with some cooler temps and lower humidity:  gorgeous sunny day as though I'd ordered it up special!

We grabbed some lunch at the Austrian Tea Room at the Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe, then we headed south on Route 100...

Our first official stop was in Granville (history, demographics):

Granville was granted to Reuben King and six other members of his family, and named Kingston in the charter. Unlike the grantees of some other towns, the Kings took part in the settlement of their town. The first proprietors' meeting was held at Windsor in the spring of 1783, at which Reuben King was elected proprietors' clerk. The following year the proprietors offered 100 acres of land to any woman who would make a permanent settlement in Kingston with her family. Mrs. Daniel King was given the first award, and her husband became the proprietors' clerk. Daniel later became the first justice of the peace and built the first sawmill and gristmill, for which he was awarded four more 100-acre lots. Their son, Henry King, was the first child born in town.

Hemenway's Gazetteer (1868) said about Kingston: "This name it retained until 1834 when, for some local prejudice on the part of the inhabitants, it was changed by the legislature to Granville." It seems more probable that it was changed because there weren't enough Kings left for the name to be meaningful any longer. The town's name was changed by the legislature in November 1834; the name of the post office was not changed by postal authorities until a year later.

Moss Glen Falls in Granville.