Kirby
Facts:
Caledonia County
Chartered: October 28, 1807 (Vermont Act of Incorporation)
Area: 15,713 Acres = 24.55 Square Miles
Population (US Census, 2000): 456
Town
History:
Kirby, a township in the eastern part of Caledonia county, was
granted to Roswell Hopkins of Vergennes, (a former secretary of
state for fourteen years), on October 20, 1786. It was chartered as
Hopkinsville on October 27, 1790. The town was organized August 8,
1807. In October of the same year, 2,527 acres of the town of Burke
was annexed to Hopkinsville and the name of the town changed to
Kirby. Theophilus Grout and Phineas Page, the first settlers in
town, came about A. D. 1792, locating in the southerly part of the
town, near Moose river. They were soon after followed by Josiah
Joslin, Jonathan Leach, Ebenezer Damon, Antipas Harrington,
Jonathan Lewis, Asahel Burt, and others, mostly from Massachusetts
and New Hampshire.
No proof has been found for the origin of Kirby's name, but several
possibilities exist. Since there was no older town of the same name
within any of the American colonies, it probably came from a
surname. Kirby might have gotten its name from one of several
Kirbys in England, where the name is said to mean "a village with a
church."
The closest thing to a village that Kirby ever had is in the
extreme southern part of the town, where two roads coming in from
Concord meet at a kind of double four corners. In the middle to
late 1800's the hamlet had a church, a school, a cemetery and a few
houses. The cemetery is still there to mark the spot. You can visit
Virtual Vermont to learn more interesting facts about
Kirby
The
Cache:
The cache will bring you to the 'double four corners' described
above as "..the closest thing to a village that Kirby ever had".
The posted picture was taken from that spot on a gorgeous (if not
freezing cold) morning when we placed the cache.
You are looking for a small round lock-n-lock. No Fences need to
be climbed to get to this cache! It is a nice winter friendly
hide.
We hope you have fun searching for the cache, and a great time
exploring Vermont!
QSeekers