Westford is a town in Chittenden County, Vermont, United States. The population was 2,062 at the 2020 census.
History
The area that is today described as Westford, Vermont originally fell within the traditional territories of the Sokoki, Missisquoi, and Cowasuck bands of the Western Abenaki tribes. Newly introduced infectious diseases and attacks by English settlers greatly impacted native populations and prompted their emigration to Quebec by the 1670s, opening the land for settlement by European immigrants. The original charter for the Town of Westford was granted at a cost of by New Hampshire's provisional governor Benning Wentworth on June 8, 1763, as part of a series of what came to be known as New Hampshire Grants.
As of the census
Notable people
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- Steven T. Byington (1869–1957), intellectual and American individualist anarchist born in Westford
- Philo Judson Farnsworth (1832–1909), physician born in Westford
- Seneca Haselton (1848–1921), mayor of Burlington, Vermont, Associate Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court
- Paul Languedoc (born 1958), soundman for Vermont jam-band Phish.
- Jonathan Mann (born 1982), musician who grew up in Westford
- Dewey H. Perry (1898–1970), U.S. Marshal for Vermont
- Luke P. Poland (1815–1887), United States senator and representative from Vermont born in Westford
- Torrey E. Wales (1820–1902), lawyer and second Mayor of Burlington, Vermont born in Westford
- William Cleaver Wilkinson (1833–1920), professor of theology and poetry born in Westford
See also
- Westmore, Vermont – Originally chartered as Westford by the Republic of Vermont in 1781.
- The Finger (Westford, Vermont) – an outdoor sculpture in Westford