Lyndonville, Vermont

Lyndonville sits in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom, a term credited to the late Senator George Aiken in nineteen forty-nine to capture the wild, half-forgotten character of this corner of the state. The village grew as a railroad town on the Passumpsic River, and the railroad shaped local life for generations. Lyndon State College, founded in nineteen eleven, later made it a college town in miniature.

In twenty twenty-three, Lyndonville formally merged with the surrounding town of Lyndon, dissolving its charter as a separate village after more than a century. The Northeast Kingdom as a whole draws people seeking what Vermont's busier corridors have largely lost: working farms, few traffic lights, and a sense of landscape that has not been entirely organized for someone else's vacation.