The Orleans County Monitor was a weekly newspaper published in Barton, Vermont from January 8, 1872, to 1953.[1][2] It was published by Ellery H. Webster in 1872.[3] An American Civil War veteran, he named it after the USS Monitor.[4] George H. Blake published the paper in 1877. The circulation was 1,400.[5] Wallace Harry Gilpin owned the paper from 1904 to 1953.[2]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ "VtGenWeb-Orleans County Vermont Newspapers". users.rootsweb.com. Retrieved 2015-01-12.
  2. 1 2 Young, Darlene (1998). A history of Barton Vermont. Crystal Lake Falls Historical Association.
  3. ↑ American Newspaper Directory. Vol. 4. 1872. pp. 1–667. Retrieved 2014-10-11.
  4. ↑ Taylor, Dan (June 2010). "Barton Believables". Vermont's Northland Journal. 9 (3): 18.
  5. ↑ Pettengill, firm, Newspaper Advertising Agents (1877). Pettengill's Newspaper Directory and Advertisers' Hand-book. S. M. Pettengill & Company. p. 6. Retrieved 2014-10-11.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)


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