Essex, Vermont 05451, 05452 Essex & Essex Jct.
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Essex and Essex Junction, Vermont are located just east of Vermont's largest city of Burlington. The Town of Essex, which is inclusive of the Village of Essex Junction, is a modern urban community with a friendly rural character. Essex is attractive to new businesses and residents because of its nationally recognized school system, its many parks and recreational facilities, diverse shopping opportunities from the local general store to major national retailers, and as the home of IBM - one of the most advanced computer chip manufacturing plants in the United States.
The Village of Essex Junction is a dynamic community known as "the Economic Engine of Vermont". Essex Junction is the home of numerous business including the Champlain Valley Exposition. Essex Junction is also known for its 'village atmosphere,' with neighborhoods residing in close proximity to schools, churches, employment, dining, shopping, and recreational activities.
The Essex communities provide numerous facilities and services including 6 shopping centers, 2 museums, 2 municipal pools, 2 public libraries, 18-hole golf course, 15 tennis courts, 27 parks, indoor/outdoor skating rinks, cross country ski trails, 3 fitness trails, fitness clubs and sports centers, a municipal lake, bowling alley, and the Vermont Voltage Professional Soccer Team.
Once a great freight and passenger railroad center, Essex and Essex Junction, Vermont are now home to a number of wholesale merchants and manufacturers such as Brown's River Book Bindery, Hydro Logic, Morse Hardwoods, Philip W. Noyes Co., Cabin Country Food, White Tail Mfg. Co., East Coast Printers, Belden Electronics Wire & Cable, Twin Turbines, Ben & Jerry's, Bouyea-Fassetts, IBM Corp., FoodScience Corp., and more... Essex is also home to the Essex Reporterweekly newspaper. Now a thriving Northwestern Vermont tourism center, Essex was once a great freight and passenger railroad center located just east of Burlington -Vermont's largest city.
