He had been given a land grant as a veteran in lieu of pay after the Revolutionary War; he may also have purchased this parcel from Herman Allen.

It was at the confluence of the Willoughby and Barton rivers, providing sufficient water for flotation.

Jesse Cook bought this building in 1830 to convert to a textile mill for weaving cloth, part of the northern economy using cotton from the South.

His son, who founded the E. L. Chandler Company, expanded the business here and in Barton Village in the 1890s.

On November 9, 1909, a crew member was killed in a head-on collision between two locomotives, just north of the rail intersection with Main Street.

It gradually expanded into northern and midwestern cities, where anxieties about migration, immigration, and social changes had heightened because of rapid industrialization and movement of peoples.

In this period, it was primarily opposed to Catholic and Jewish immigrants, but kept some of its racist background.

A 1918 photograph shows children at the old Opera House, a number of them dressed in KKK hoods, and others in blackface.

[11] In the late 1970s, as efforts were made to improve water quality and the environment, the federal and state governments stopped the village from dumping raw sewage into the Barton River.

Orleans built a new treatment plant, which cost $2.8 million, 90% of which was paid for by state and federal governments.

This dropped substantially in the 21st century, as it moved some manufacturing offshore or to areas with lower labor costs.

Second Assistant Chief – Ronald Hoyt In 2008, the fire department provided service to the village and to the adjacent town of Brownington.

[15] The village pumps water from the Willoughby River to its high reservoir during off-peak hours.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 0.7 square mile (1.8 km2), all land.

In spring rainbow trout migrate up the river and falls from Lake Memphremagog in order to spawn.

[21] Christian Ministries owns radio station W243AE which broadcasts out of Orleans on 96.5 FM.

The library is unique in the county for having an endowment left as an estate which also constructed the building.

It also exceeded state averages in every category on the standardized NECAP test and was the only school in the area to do so.

[31] While the Washington County Railroad (The Vermont Railway System) runs through Orleans, it does not service the town.