Cabot is a six-mile-square New England town located in the northeast corner of Washington County, Vermont, United States.

Molly’s Pond State Park has over 1,000 acres and includes the 411-acre reservoir created by a dam built in 1926-27 that flooded the small farming community of Petersville.

Organized as a cooperative in 1919 by 94 members with a total of 863 cows,[5] the creamery has struggled and re-invented itself several times as economic and population changes have occurred.

The creamery draws from other towns for the massive amount of product needed to sustain the ever-growing demand for Cabot cheese.

Crafters, wood carvers, arborists, gardeners/landscapers, musicians, authors and other professionals or retirees make their home in the historic scenic landscape of rural Cabot.

There is also an 8-unit senior housing complex, Cabot Commons, opened in 2005, within easy access of downtown businesses and the town offices and library located in the Willey Memorial Building.

The historical society houses an impressive collection of artifacts, along with a library of genealogy and reference materials.

The two-story former school and community hall that was built in 1849 has been uniquely preserved to display the town’s historical artifacts.

Throughout the year, the village common hosts a variety of concerts, field days, farmers’ markets, and craft events.

There is a community skating rink on the common in the winter, and hiking and snowmobile trails run through the town.

[9] When the Bayley-Hazen Military Road opened in 1775-1776 from Newbury northwest to what is now known as Cabot Plain, the original intent was to build a road through the unexplored wilderness from the northernmost town of Newbury to St. Johns, Quebec, Canada, to facilitate getting supplies to the army that hoped to defeat the British and capture Canada.

A meeting house was constructed, also a pound to contain wandering farm animals, and a whipping post that was used only once to punish an errant citizen.

As the town grew, mills, businesses, and farms clustered near the Winooski River and extended south to form a community known as Lower Cabot.

The early buildings had few windows, no electricity or plumbing, and usually a large iron stove set in the middle of the room for heat.

[citation needed] Cabot Plains Cemetery has views of Camel's Hump, the Worcester Range and Mt.

[citation needed] The historic Bayley-Hazen Road crosses Cabot Plain from the Danville-Cabot town line near Route 2 and West Shore Road and continues in a generally northwesterly direction to cross Route 215 into Walden and ends at Hazen’s Notch in Lowell, Vermont.

The road was intended to provide a shorter supply route to America's Continental Army in St. Johns, Quebec, Canada during the American Revolution of 1776.

[citation needed] Colonel Jacob Bayley initiated the idea of the road in the spring of 1776, and Thomas Johnson and a small party of men blazed the trail and measured the distance.

Washington agreed to Bayley's proposal; however, the Continental Congress was slow to make a decision, Approval for the work was finally granted, and in the early summer of 1776, James Whitelaw began surveying the route and Bayley and his crew of 110 men began work, following closely behind the surveying crew.

[citation needed] There were plans in the summer of 1778 for another invasion of Canada, and General Moses Hazen was sent to complete the road Colonel Bayley had begun.

There were a few skirmishes when small scouting parties ventured south along the trail, and by the end of the summer of 1779, work ceased entirely and the road was never finished beyond Hazen’s Notch in Lowell.

[citation needed] There are markers on Cabot Plain showing the location of the military road and Hazen's encampment site.

[citation needed] Cabot has a typical northern Vermont climate with a generally short growing season.

[citation needed] Winters can be harsh with high snow amounts and long periods of below-zero temperatures.