Gazetteer/Almanac
Headnote
ESSEX COUNTY, situated at the northeast corner of Vermont, with Connecticut river on the east. Area, 225 square miles. Face of the country hilly and mountainous; soil, on the streams, fertile. Seat of justice, Guildhall. Pop. in 1810, 3,087; in 1820, 3,284; in 1830, 3,981; in 1840, 4,226; in 1850, 4,650. (Fanning's, 1853)