Barnard (Vermont)

Barnard
Barnard Town Hall
Location in Vermont
Barnard
Basic data
Foundation :	July 17, 1761
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Windsor County
Coordinates :	43 ° 44 ′  N , 72 ° 37 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 44 ′  N , 72 ° 37 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	947 (as of 2010)
Population density :	7.5 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	126.6 km 2  (approx. 49 mi 2 ) of which 126.0 km 2  (approx. 49 mi 2 ) are land
Height :	407 m
Postal code :	05031
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-02725
GNIS ID :	1462033
Website :	www.trorc.org/towns/barnard/

Barnard is a town in Windsor County , Vermont , United States with 947 residents (2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

The place is in the foothills of the Green Mountains . In the center of the Town lying Silver Lake north includes the Silver Lake State Park at Silver Lake on. To the southwest is Barnard State Park . The State Route 12 runs from Woodstock in the southeast to Bethel in the northwest.

Neighboring communities

All distances are given as straight lines between the official coordinates of the places from the 2010 census.

• North: Royalton , 5.8 mi
• Northeast: Sharon , 14 mi
• East: Pomfret , 8.6 miles
• Southeast: Woodstock , 6.6 mi
• South: Bridgewater , 4.1 mi
• Southwest: Killington , 10 mi
• West: Stockbridge , 14.0 km
• Northwest: Bethel , 5.1 mi

climate

The mean mean temperature in Barnard is between −8.3 ° C (17  ° F ) in January and 20.0 ° C (68 ° F) in July. This makes the place about 2 degrees cooler compared to the long-term mean of Vermont. The snowfall between October and May is well over two meters (with a peak in January of almost 50 cm) about twice as high as the mean snow depth in the USA. The daily sunshine duration is at the lower end of the range in the USA.

history

Barnard was founded on July 17, 1761 as a New Hampshire Grant . The town was named after the second named in the Grant, Sir Francis Bernard Governor of the Province of New Jersey and later the Province of Massachusetts Bay . In August 1780, four residents of Barnard were captured in an Indian raid and taken to Canada. Two escaped and the others were released a year later.

Sinclair Lewis , who later won the Nobel Prize for Literature , bought two farms in Barnard in 1928 for his future wife, the writer and journalist Dorothy Thompson , who only wanted to marry him on these conditions. Thompson lived on twin farms for thirty years and, after separating from Lewis in 1943, married the Czech painter and sculptor Maxim Kopf , who had come to the United States on the run from Hitler's troops .

In 1941 the writer leased Carl Zuckmayer and his wife Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer the Backwoods Farm . They had been coming to Barnard for the summer holidays since 1939 with the help of Dorothy Thompson. The Zuckmayers worked on the farm until 1946. His drama Des Teufels General was written there. Her time in Barnard is described in the autobiography As if it's a piece of me (Carl Zuckmayer, 1966) and in The Farm in the Green Mountains (Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer, 1949).

Religions

Silver Lake Chapel

There are two churches in Barnard, the Unitarian First Universalist Church and the Congregationalist Silver Lake Chapel .

Population development

Census Results - Town of Barnard, Vermont
year	1700	1710	1720	1730	1740	1750	1760	1770	1780	1790
Residents										673
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	1236	1848	1691	1881	1774	1647	1487	1208	1191	918
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	840	737	653	584	486	439	435	569	790	872
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	958	947

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The main thoroughfare in Barnard is State Route 12, which runs north-south . Closest passenger rail stations are in Randolph , White River Junction and Killington, Vermont .

Public facilities

The Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon , New Hampshire is the hospital for Barnard and the region of the Connecticut River .

Barnard has a public library, the Charles B. Danforth Public Library , affiliated with Barnard Academy.

education

Barnard is home to the Barnard Academy with classes from pre-kindergarten through sixth grade. Barnard is part of the Windsor Central Supervisory Union . High school students attend Woodstock Union Middle School and High School . The nearest colleges are in Hanover, New Hampshire , Norwich and Middlebury , the nearest university in Plymouth, New Hampshire .

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Horace Eaton (1804–1855), governor of Vermont
• Danielle Bean , biathlete

Personalities who have worked on site

• Maxim Kopf (1892–1958), Czech painter and sculptor
• Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951), writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
• Dorothy Thompson (1893–1961), writer and journalist
• Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer (1901–1991), writer
• Carl Zuckmayer (1896–1977), writer

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in Three Parts . Part 3. Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. 7th f . ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Barnard, 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 March 26, 2017 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Barnard in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed July 13, 2016
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e} climate, traffic and school data at www.City-Data.com (English)
5. ^ Barnard, Vermont, New England, USA. In: virtualvermont.com. Retrieved July 13, 2016 . 
6. ^ Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in Three Parts . Part 3. Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. 7th f . ( Digitized version ).
7. ↑ About Our All Inclusive Resort | Twin Farms. In: twinfarms.com. Retrieved July 13, 2016 (American English). 
8. ^ Biography - Carl Zuckmayer Society Mainz. (No longer available online.) In: carl-zuckmayer.de. Archived from the original on March 23, 2016 ; accessed on October 28, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
9. ↑ 45-Year Wait Ends At The Zuckmayer Farm ( Memento from September 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
10. ↑ Vermont Women: Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer. In: vpr.net. Retrieved July 13, 2016 . 
11. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results