Craftsbury is a town in Orleans County, Vermont, United States.

The state granted the town to Ebenezer Crafts, Timothy Newell, and sixty-two associates, on November 6, 1780.

[4] As mills multiplied around the town in the early 1800s additional settlements were made at Mill Village and in Craftsbury Village, while a predominantly Scottish settlement was made in East Craftsbury.

The drop from its source to Lake Memphremagog, including the falls at Irasburg and Coventry, is 190 feet.

Wild branch, a tributary of the Lamoille, rises in Eden and flows through the western part of the town.

The valley of the Black river in Craftsbury is a muck bed averaging a quarter of a mile in width.

In the central portions of town, the previous rocks are replaced by dark argillaceous slate.

State Route 14 runs along a seam where these east and west rock formation converge.

This rock is filled with nodules of black mica and quartz, in concentric layers.

In much of the area, the biotite orbicules are so numerous that a hundred may be counted within a circle two feet in diameter.

In some parts of the ledge these nodules are flattened, as if subjected to an immense vertical pressure when the mass was in a semi-fluid state.

In the nineteenth century these rocks were once believed to be unique from any other found in America or Europe.

[8] As the last glacial period ended, part of the town became submerged under the transient Lake Winooski which drained when its ice dam melted 14,000 years ago.

[15] Alfred Hitchcock shot the scenery for his 1955 movie The Trouble with Harry in Craftsbury.

Assuming that the town would be in full foliage, the company showed up for outdoor shots on September 27, 1954.

To the filmmakers' shock, there was hardly any foliage left; to achieve a full effect, leaves were glued to the trees.

[26] The 1976 IMAX film To Fly!, a history of human flight, directed by Jim Freeman and Greg MacGillivray and produced for the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum opens with a hot air balloon passing over the Wee House and the United Church of Craftsbury on the Common.

The Craftsbury Outdoor Center has 105 kilometres (65 mi) of Nordic skiing trails, used for running in the summer months.

The center is also home to the Green Racing Project, an Olympic development team with both rowing and skiing components.