Sixty years later, a sizable village had
grown up near the confluence of the
Winooski River and the North Branch. The
good folks of Montpelier Village had
begun to pave their streets and install a
water system. They tended to view the
larger rural portion of the town as a "black
hole" for tax money for roads, bridges,
cemeteries and care of the indigent.

[Map shows the original list divisions.]