Orleans County Monitor

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The Orleans County Monitor was a weekly newspaper published in Barton, Vermont from January 8, 1872, to 1953.{{cite web|url=http://users.rootsweb.com/~vtorlean/orl_news.htm |title=VtGenWeb-Orleans County Vermont Newspapers|publisher=users.rootsweb.com|access-date=2015-01-12}}{{cite book | author = Young, Darlene |title = A history of Barton Vermont | publisher = Crystal Lake Falls Historical Association|year = 1998}} It was published by Ellery H. Webster in 1872.{{cite book|title=American Newspaper Directory|date=1872|volume=4|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b2ADAAAAYAAJ|pages=1–667|access-date=2014-10-11}} An American Civil War veteran, he named it after the USS Monitor.{{Cite journal|first=Dan|last=Taylor|date=June 2010|title=Barton Believables|journal=Vermont's Northland Journal|volume=9|issue=3|pages=18}} George H. Blake published the paper in 1877. The circulation was 1,400.{{cite book|title=Pettengill's Newspaper Directory and Advertisers' Hand-book|author=Pettengill, firm, Newspaper Advertising Agents|date=1877|publisher=S. M. Pettengill & Company|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0InQAAAAMAAJ|page=6|access-date=2014-10-11}} Wallace Harry Gilpin owned the paper from 1904 to 1953.