Plymouth is a town in Windsor County, Vermont, United States. The population was 641 at the 2020 census. Calvin Coolidge, the 30th president of the United States, was born and raised in Plymouth and is buried there in the Plymouth Notch cemetery. The State of Vermont Division for Historic Preservation owns and maintains the Coolidge Homestead and the village of Plymouth Notch.

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which is land and , or 1.15%, is water.

History

The old Coolidge store, run by John Calvin Coolidge, Sr., the president's father, housed the post office in the 1920s. John Coolidge's wife, Carrie, served as postmaster 1903–1917. Coolidge's father also founded Plymouth Cheese, which continues to produce artisan cheese today.

Plymouth was one of thirteen Vermont towns isolated by flooding caused by Hurricane Irene in 2011.

Demographics

As of the census

  • Calvin Galusha Coolidge, Vermont state legislator, grandfather of Calvin Coolidge
  • Esther Sumner Damon, last widow of an American Revolutionary War veteran to receive a pension
  • Ernest E. Moore, Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives
  • Henry M. Pollard, US Congressman from Missouri
  • Achsa W. Sprague, spiritualist and medium
  • Hiland Orlando Stickney, college football player and coach
  • William W. Stickney, governor of Vermont
  • Julius A. Willcox, associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court

References

  • Town of Plymouth community website
  • President Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site