Arlington, Vermont

Arlington
Green Covered Bridge in Arlington
Location in Vermont
Arlington
Basic data
Foundation :	July 28, 1761
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Bennington County
Coordinates :	43 ° 4 ′  N , 73 ° 14 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 4 ′  N , 73 ° 14 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	2,317 (as of 2010)
Population density :	21.2 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	109.9 km 2  (approx. 42 mi 2 ) of which 109.4 km 2  (approx. 42 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	351 m
Postal code :	05250
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-01450
GNIS ID :	1462027
Website :	www.ArlingtonVT.org
Downtown in Arlington

Arlington is a town in Bennington County of the state of Vermont in the United States with 2,317 inhabitants (according to the 2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

Arlington is between the Taconic Mountains and the Green Mountains , west of Bennington County, on the border with New York State . The main river is the Batten Kill , on whose banks the main settlement of the parish, Arlington Village , is located. The surface of the town is hilly and the highest point is the centrally located 947 m high Grass Mountain .

Neighboring communities

All information as air lines between the official coordinates of the places from the 2010 census.

• North: Sandgate , 4 miles
• North-East: Manchester , 11.5 miles
• East: Sunderland , 10.9 miles
• Southeast: Glastenbury , 10.9 mi
• South: Shaftsbury , 2 miles
• Southwest: Cambridge, New York , 15 mi
• West: Jackson, New York , 10.9 mi
• Northwest: Salem, New York , 6.9 mi

climate

Arlington
Climate diagram
J F. M. A. M. J J A. S. O N D.     86   -2 -13     71   1 -12     91   5 -7     89   12 -1     109   19th 5     119   24 10     117   26th 13     112   25th 12     97   21st 7th     109   14th 1     102   8th -2     102   1 -8th Temperature in ° C ,  precipitation in mm Source: www.weatherbase.com

Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Arlington Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Max. Temperature ( ° C ) -1.9 0.9 4.9 12.4 18.8 24.1 25.8 25.1 20.9 14.1 7.7 1.3 O 12.9 Min. Temperature (° C) -12.5 -11.6 -6.9 -0.6 5.2 9.8 12.5 11.7 6.8 1.3 -2.3 -8.2 O 0.5 Precipitation ( mm ) 86.4 71.1 91.4 88.9 109.2 119.4 116.8 111.8 96.5 109.2 101.6 101.6 Σ 1,203.9 Rainy days ( d ) 14.7 11.2 13.5 12.6 14.3 13.3 12.6 11.8 11.0 12.3 12.9 14.7 Σ 154.9 Source: www.weatherbase.com

The mean average temperature in Arlington is between -7.2 ° C (19 ° Fahrenheit ) in January and 19.2 ° C (66.5 ° Fahrenheit) in July. This means that the place is around 9 degrees cooler than the long-term average in the USA. At more than five meters, the snowfall between October and May is about twice as high as the average snow depth in the USA, the daily sunshine duration is at the lower end of the range in the USA.

history

The place was proclaimed on July 28, 1761 by the Governor of New Hampshire , Benning Wentworth , as part of the New Hampshire Grants for settlement. The first meeting of buyers, in which the systematic reclamation of the area was discussed and decided, took place in 1762 in the nearby municipality of Pownal . Most of the new owners never settled on the acquired land, so at the first meeting in the new town, which took place on June 1, 1763, a premium was decided on for the first ten settlers to settle in Arlington. Only four families are known to have permanently settled in the town in 1763; the first large number of settlers did not settle here until spring 1764. A grain mill and a sawmill were built at the same time. The settlement continued until 1780, so that a stable community existed at the latest from this point in time.

In the summer of 1764, the young community was burdened by the decision of the British King that the lands sold by New Hampshire should belong to the colony of New York. Among the mostly poor settlers, New York's desire to sell them their land again, since the sale through New Hampshire had been illegal, led to strong rejection of the new administration; there were raids by New York militias and armed resistance. The unrest escalated over the course of several years. The attempted arrest of community leader Remember Baker by New York troops on March 22, 1772 led to open violence; it was one of the occasions for the establishment of an organized counter-militia, the Green Mountain Boys under Ethan Allen , which finally enforced the independence of the entire disputed area from 1776 under the name Vermont Republic . Significant numbers of the later leaders of the Green Mountain Boys and the Vermont Republic were in Arlington at the time of these operations. They included Seth Warner , one of the leading figures in the Green Mountain Boys and the Revolutionary War , and Thomas Chittenden , first president of the Vermont Republic .

With the construction of the Rutland – Hoosick Junction railway line , Arlington opened up additional sales markets from 1851 onwards. The large number of suitable watercourses for the operation of machines and a number of important mineral resources resulted in a large number of factories. In the early 20th century, Arlington was an important industrial center with several mills and factories for working marble.

Religions

A first wooden church was built from 1784, and a first community cemetery was laid out at the same time. This church was replaced by a stone building between 1829 and 1830 by resolution of the community assembly. This building, which still exists today, the St. James Episcopal Church , is considered the second oldest neo-Gothic church in Vermont. Several other parishes followed in quick succession, but not all of them remained.

Today there are five parishes in Arlington: two Methodist parishes ( Church on the Green and East Arlington Federated UMC ) and one each of the Catholics ( St. Margaret Mary ), Episcopal ( St. James ) and the United Church of Christ .

Population development

Census Results - Town of Arlington, Vermont
year	1700	1710	1720	1730	1740	1750	1760	1770	1780	1790
Residents										991
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	1597	1463	1354	1207	1035	1084	1146	1636	1532	1352
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	1193	1307	1370	1441	1418	1463	1605	1934	2184	2299
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	2397	2317

Culture and sights

Buildings

Portions of downtown Arlington, the Arlington Village Historic District with 190 historic buildings, were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989 . The only Carthusian monastery in the United States, the Charterhouse of the Transfiguration , is also located near the city .

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The community is connected to the US road network by Vermont Route 7A and Vermont Route 313 , both of which run through the town. The nearest expressway is US Route 7 , east of the territory's border , which is a north-south axis between nearby Bennington and Canada. On the other hand, only goods have been transported on the railway line since the early 1960s; passenger traffic has ceased.

Public facilities

There are no public facilities in Arlington other than the usual municipal facilities and elementary and middle schools. The closest hospital is Southwestern Medical Center in Bennington.

education

There are two primary schools in Arlington, Fisher Elementary School and Sunderland Elementary School . Then there is the secondary school at Arlington Memorial High and Middle School . Colleges and universities can be found in Bennington, Middlebury and Burlington .

Arlington is part of the Battenkill Valley Supervisory Union .

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Augustus Young (1784–1857), politician and Vermont representative in the US House of Representatives
• Gideon Hard (1797–1885), politician and New York State representative in the US House of Representatives

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . 3rd volume. Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. 4th f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont historical Gazetteer . 1st volume. Burlington 1867, p. 121 ff .

Web links

Commons : Arlington (Vermont)  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

• Homepage of the municipality (English)
• Profile of the municipality on the official portal www.Vermont.gov
• Entry on VirtualVermont (English) ( Memento from December 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Arlington in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed October 1, 2014
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ^ Grass Mountain. In: peakery.com. Retrieved March 30, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
5. ↑ Climate data at www.City-Data.com (English)
6. ↑ ^{a b} Arlington Village Historic District ( Memento from October 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
7. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
8. ^ Battenkill Valley Supervisory Union , accessed July 4, 2017