Johnson,
Vermont
The first named grantee of the town was a son of the famed religious
leader, Jonathan Edawrds; the second was William Samuel Johnson, for whom the town was
named, considered of equal rank to Edwards as an exponent of idealist philosophy in
colonial America. For more than half a century, he was active in three fields: jurist,
statesman, educator.
A graduate of Yale, Johnson quickly became a leader in the
Connecticut Bar, and served several years in that colony's House of Representatives and on
its council. He was the colony's Representative to England, later to the Continental
Congress. He was a member of the convention that wrote the US Constitution as well as one
of Connecticut's two signatories to that document. Upon leaving government service, he
became the first president of Kings College in New York, now Columbia University.
Johnson is in the Green Mountains of Northern Vermont, just
minutes to Smugglers Notch and Stowe.
The town is perhaps most well known as the
location of Johnson State College and Johnson Woollen Mills, but also has a rich tradition
of farming and horses. The village of Johnson is home to a number of antique shops,
several small eateries, gift shops, world-class craft producers and an art school.
The Gihon River joins the Lamoille River here on
its journey to Lake Champlain; both are excellent trout water. Johnson reflects the
beauty, clean water, and rich soil of all of Lamoille County.
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