About Us:

In 1761, Middlebury was chartered with most people settling in the town after the Revolutionary War. Some say the town was named because it is located midpoint between the towns of New Haven in the north and Salisbury to the south, which were chartered the very same day. Middlebury is a beautiful quintessential

New England village with its white steepled church overlooking Main Street and its vibrant citizenry. To demonstrate our industrial heritage, a historic marker is found on Main Street commemorating John Deere and his invention "the plow that broke the plains." This marker is located in Cannon Park near the blacksmith shop where Deere apprenticed in from 1821-1825. John Deere left Vermont and moved to Illinois where he built the world's first steel moldboard plow.