Barre (City)

Barre City
Nickname : Granite Capital of the World
Location in Vermont
Barre City
Basic data
Foundation :	November 23, 1894
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Washington County
Coordinates :	44 ° 12 ′  N , 72 ° 30 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 12 ′  N , 72 ° 30 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	9,052 (as of 2010)
Population density :	870.4 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	10.4 km 2  (about 4 mi 2 ) of which 10.4 km 2  (about 4 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	301 m
Postal code :	05641
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-03175
GNIS ID :	1462036
Website :	www.BarreCity.org

Barre City is a city in Washington County of the state of Vermont in the United States with 9052 inhabitants (according to the 2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

Barre City is located in the east of Washington County in a plateau of the Green Mountains . Surrounded by the Town Barre . The city borders on Berlin in the west. Barre is the center of Vermont's granite production. The Stevens Branch River and the Jail Branch River flow through the city. Both flow into the Winooski River .

Neighboring communities

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

• North: East Montpelier , 6.2 mi
• Northeast: Groton , 13.5 miles
• East: Ryegate 33.5 km
• South-east: Orange , 9.0 km
• South: Williamstown , 5.6 mi
• Southwest: Northfield , 7.8 mi
• West: Fayston , 17.2 miles
• North-west: Montpelier , 9.0 km

climate

The mean average temperature in Barre is between −8 ° C in January and 19 ° C in July. This means that the place is around 10 degrees cooler than the long-term average in the USA. The snowfall between mid-October and mid-May is up to six meters, about twice as high as the average snow depth in the USA, the daily sunshine duration is at the lower end of the range of values ​​in the USA, and in the period from September to December even significantly less.

history

The city was spun off as a separate administrative unit from the surrounding country, Barre Town , in 1895 , after the population of the region had increased from around 2,000 to around 10,000 from 1880 onwards by immigrants from various countries who had been attracted by the well-known quarries.

Today the city is the economic and cultural center of the wide area. After the extensive decline of the granite industry - today only 97 people are employed in the remaining Barres quarries - a large number of medium-sized industries have settled in the village. One of the bigger employers is Bombardier , which operates a wagon factory here.

Historical Society and Robert Burn Monument

The city's cemetery has developed into a tourist attraction because the gravestones there are not only made of the local, light gray granite, but also represent some unusual works.

The Vermont Historical Society is based in Barre City.

There are a large number of listed buildings in Barre. Many are located in the Barre Downtown Historic District . Many of the buildings were erected in the 1880s when Barre went from being an agricultural community to being an economic center thanks to the granite industry. The construction of the railway accelerated this development.

Population development

Census Results - City of Barre, Vermont
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	8,448	10,734	10,008	11.307	10,909	10,922	10,387	10,209	9,824	9,482
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	9,291	9,052

Culture and sights

Museums

Barre granite

The Vermont Granite Museum is located on the northern edge of the city. It is located in the former granite quarry of the Jones Brothers Company in the granite shed from 1895. It was restored in 2002. The museum is still under development, with exhibits on all aspects of the region's granite.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Barre is connected to the outside world in a variety of ways. In addition to Interstate 89 , which passes west of the city, Vermont State Route 62 begins in the center of the village into Vermont's industrial center, Burlington ; and the US Highway 302 runs through Barre City. The Edward F. Knapp State Airport is located about six kilometers west of the city center. A railway connection, the New England Central Railroad , also still exists. Other rail connections, including the Montpelier Junction – Williamstown railway line and the Montpelier – Barre tram , are no longer in operation or stop in Barre.

Public facilities

In Barre, besides the usual municipal facilities and public schools up to the middle school, no additional public facilities are represented. The closest hospital is the Central Vermont Medical Center in neighboring Berlin.

education

In Barre City, an elementary and middle school, the Barre City Middle and Elementary School with classes from pre-kindergarten through eighth grade, and the Spaulding High School with grades 9 through 12 are available as public schools. They are located in the City of Barre, which runs a joint school administration with the Town of Barre. In addition, the Barre Technical Center , also in the city, offers vocational training in technical professions.

Aldrich Public Library

The Aldrich Public Library is located in Downtown Barre City. The library building was constructed in 1908 and the area was renovated and expanded in 1999. The library has a branch in East Barre.

Personalities

Note: Due to the lack of a distinction in the biographies as to whether the persons listed here were born in the Town of Barre or the City of Barre, this information is the same in both articles.

sons and daughters of the town

• Socrates N. Sherman (1801–1873), politician and Vermont representative in the US House of Representatives
• Alson Sherman (1811–1903), politician and mayor of Chicago
• Deane C. Davis (1900–1990), politician and governor of Vermont
• Charles Poletti (1903–2002), politician and governor of New York State
• William Bradford (1905–1959), Hollywood cameraman
• Alexander V. Acebo (1927–2019), politician and Vermont State Auditor
• Richard Romanus (born 1943), actor
• Miranda July (* 1974), artist
• Elizabeth Stephen (* 1987), cross-country skier

Personalities who have worked on site

• James Fisk (1763-1844), lawyer and Vermont representative in the US Congress; Barre lawyer
• Lucius Benedict Peck (1802–1866), lawyer and Vermont representative in the US House of Representatives; Barre lawyer
• Hollister Jackson (1875–1927), politician and lieutenant governor of Vermont, died in office in the 1927 flood

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont: natural, civil, and statistical, in three parts . 3rd volume. George H. Salisbury, Burlington 1842, p. 9 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search). for history up to 1840 (English)
• Thomas Nelson Dale: The Granites of Vermont . US Government Printing Office, Washington 1909 ( limited preview in Google Book search). (Also available as PDF for download on the United States Geological Survey website )

Web links

Commons : Barre (city), Vermont  - collection of images, videos, and audio files

• Homepage of the municipality (English)
• Entry on VirtualVermont (English) ( Memento from November 15, 2017 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Barre City in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed March 15, 2012
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010 (English)
4. ↑ Barre, Vermont (VT 05641) profile: population, maps, real estate, averages, homes, statistics, relocation, travel, jobs, hospitals, schools, crime, moving, houses, news, sex offenders. In: city-data.com. www.city-data.com, accessed on February 27, 2017 (English). 
5. ↑ Historical outline on the City's homepage (in English) ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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.  
6. ↑ Summary of the current granite centers on UVM.edu ( Memento from June 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
7. ↑ Illustrated article from the RoadsideAmerica website : "Granite Sculptures of Hope Cemetery" (in English)
8. ↑ Photo gallery of selected tombstones on About.com (in English)
9. ↑ Homepage of the Vermont Historical Society (in English)
10. ↑ ^{a b c d} City Plan 2014 Barre City , accessed February 27, 2017
11. ↑ Population 1900–2010 according to census results
12. ↑ Homepage of Spaulding High School (English)