Eden,
Vermont
Eden was chartered to a group of Green Mountain
Boys officers and troops and heirs of men killed in the Revolution. The list of 72 names
reads like a veritable "Who's Who of Vermont", virtually all of the men who
figured in the conduct of the revolt itself or in the establishment of the Republic.
The town was chartered to the veterans in the
hopes that it would be a post-war "Eden" to them; however, as far as can be
determined, none of the them ever settled there. It was not at all topographically suited
to live up to its Biblical name. Rough and mountainous (several peaks over 2,000 feet),
with numerous lakes and rivers, and not settled until after 1800.