Selectmen's Meeting The Stamford Board of Selectmen meet at 7:00 p.m. in the town office meetings to be held second and fourth Thursday of the month.
Recycling Hours Saturday 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon Summer - Last Wednesday in April to last Wednesday in October 3:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
Taxes Taxes are due the third Thursday of November by 9:00 p.m. If not received in the treasurer's office by the due date, they become delinquent and are subject to penalty and interest.
School Director's Meeting The Stamford School Directors meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Stamford Elementary School on the second Thursday of each month.
Stamford
is one of the oldest towns in Vermont, chartered in 1753 by Benning
Wentworth, Governor of New Hampshire. It is possible that it was named
after Governor Wentworth's friend, the Earl of Stamford of Stamford,
England. For a short time, the town was called New Stamford.
BRIEF HISTORY OF STAMFORD Excerpts from articles written in 1993 by the Stamford Historical Society
and Anthony Coniglio for the Sesquicentennial Edition of The Transcript
It
is stated in the book, "Vermont the Land of Green Mountains," issued by
the Vermont Bureau of Publicity in 1913, that "The Hoosac Range of
mountains lies on the east and the Taconic Range of mountains on the
west of Stamford, like natural fortification" A dome-shaped elevation
east of the village is called Allen's Peak - local legend tells that a
man by the name of Allen hid in a cave on this peak so he wouldn't have
to fight in the Revolutionary War. Every generation of young people
since that time has tried to find the cave. Perhaps the next generation
will be luckier!
According
to an article published in 1860 in the Heminway Gazetteer, "The first
settler in town is reported to have been a man named Raymond who built
his cabin against a large rock, giving him the name 'Rock Raymond'."
Some of the first settlers came to Stamford from Connecticut and
eastern Massachusetts. The Millard family history tells us that the
family drove their oxen and their belongings from Rehobeth, MA, which
had become "too crowded" and that Squire had '4his cattle shod so that
they could keep their footing on the icy ground and set out toward the
northwest, following the beds of creeks." They finally settled in a hut
on the North Branch of the Hoosac River in Stamford, eventually
building several family homes still standing in the village today.
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