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The Wheelocks and Parkers were the first families to settle the town, in the latter part of the 18th century. In the early and mid 19th century, the Vermont wool industry spawned Sheep pastures in the town. Photos of the time show a heavily de-forested Calais. Like many small Vermont towns, Calais was devastated by the Civil War. Volunteers from Calais flocked to the Union cause, most serving in the Army's volunteer regiments. In the post Civil War era, agriculture turned from sheep to dairy and new families came to fill farms that were sold by the families and widows of Civil War Veterans. Until the 1960s and 1970s the town was a Republican stronghold, like much of Vermont but is now firmly Democratic, a combination of an influx of out of staters moving in during the same period, and native-born Vermont Republicans finding that party's increasing social conservatism incongruous with their beliefs. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calais%2C_Vermont
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