Saint Johnsbury, town, seat of Caledonia County, northeastern Vermont, on the Passumpsic, Moose, and Sleepers rivers; incorporated 1790. Maple-sugar products, weighing scales, and electrical equipment are the chief manufactures. The Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium and the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum (1871) are here. The town was settled in 1786; its name was suggested by the American patriot Ethan Allen as a tribute to the writer Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur, whose pseudonym was J. Hector St. John. Population 7,938 (1980); 7,608 (1990); 6,424 (1996 estimate).Microsoft® Encarta® Online Encyclopedia 2001
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