Place:Newport (city), Orleans, Vermont, United States

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NameNewport (city)
Alt namesNewport
Duncansborosource: USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS50003432
Duncansboroughsource: USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS50003432
Salemsource: Family History Library Catalog
TypeCity
Coordinates44.933°N 72.2°W
Located inOrleans, Vermont, United States
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Newport is a city and the county seat of Orleans County, Vermont, United States. As of the 2020 Census, the population was 4,455. The city contains the second-largest population of any municipality in the county (only neighboring Derby is larger), and has the smallest geographic area. It is the second-smallest city by population in Vermont. Newport is also the name of a neighboring town in Orleans County.

Newport was founded by European Americans as a settlement in 1793 and was first called Pickeral Point. It was the place where Rogers' Rangers retreated to in 1759, during the French and Indian War (or Seven Years War between the French and British).

In the 19th century, the village was stimulated by construction of the railroad here in 1863, during the American Civil War. The lumbering firm Prouty & Miller operated here from 1865. Long after the post-war Reconstruction era, the village was the site for a Reunion Society of Vermont Officers in 1891. Newport has two public schools, one private school and a branch of the Community College of Vermont. As of the 2010 census there were 4,589 people.

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