The eastern portion of the town drains southward via Boomhour Branch and Wiley Brook to the Green River, another tributary of the Lamoille.

Eden Central School is located at 140 Knowles Flat Road just off route 100.

In 2018, ECS was the recipient of a Year of the Book Grant from the Children's Literacy Foundation.

Open houses, concerts, celebration events and graduations are all widely attended.

The two-member at-large Essex-Orleans Senate district includes the town of Eden, as well as parts or all of Essex, Orleans, Franklin and Lamoille counties.

Eden was chartered in 1781 to 72 Green Mountain Boys who fought in the Revolutionary War.

An asbestos mine on Belvidere Mountain which operated from 1936 to 1993 left an estimated 3,500,000 cubic yards (2,700,000 m3) of mill tailings.

In 2008, the state warned residents of Eden and nearby towns that there was a "health risk" for people living within a 10-mile (16 km) radius of the mine.

The aboveground mill tailings had seeped into the ground water systems and were estimated at 16,000,000 cubic yards (12,000,000 m3).

[10] In April 2009, the Vermont Department of Health released a revised study which found that all of the deaths related to the asbestos mine were caused by exposure, residing with in the ten-mile radius, and consuming ground waters.