Bradford (Vermont)

Bradford
Bradford Town Hall
Location in Vermont
Bradford
Basic data
Foundation :	May 3, 1770
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Orange County
Coordinates :	44 ° 1 ′  N , 72 ° 9 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 1 ′  N , 72 ° 9 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	2,797 (as of 2010)
Population density :	36.2 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	77.4 km 2  (approx. 30 mi 2 ) of which 77.2 km 2  (approx. 30 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	263 m
Postal code :	05033
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-07375
GNIS ID :	1462046
Website :	bradford-vt.us

Bradford is a town in Orange County , Vermont , United States with 2,797 inhabitants (according to the 2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

Bradford is in east Orange County, on the New Hampshire border . This is formed by the Connecticut River , which is the border river between Vermont and New Hampshire. The Waits River flows west-east through the town and flows into the Connecticut River. The only, smaller lake in the area of ​​the town is the Blodgett Pond in the northeast. The highest point is the 555 m high Wrights Mountain . Bradford is located in central Vermont on a plateau of the Green Mountains , the so-called Upper Valley .

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Newbury , 3.6 miles
• East: Piermont, New Hampshire , 11 mi
• Southeast: Fairlee , 2.5 mi
• Southwest: West Fairlee , 4.7 mi
• West: Corinth , 13.8 km

climate

The mean mean temperature in Bradford is between −9.44 ° C (15 ° Fahrenheit ) in January and 18.3 ° C (65 ° Fahrenheit) in July. This means that the place is around 9 degrees cooler than the long-term average in the USA. The snowfall between mid-October and mid-May is more than two 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, between September and mid-December it is even significantly lower.

history

The settlement of Bradford began before the land was declared for settlement. John Hosmer settled near the mouth of the Waits River in 1765. More settlers followed and in 1772 the first grist mill was built. The area was initially known under the name Waitstown , or Waits River Town . It goes back to Joseph Wait, who was involved in the raid on the Indians of St. Francis in Canada in 1759 and returned with a group of other soldiers along the Connecticut River. Half starved, they shot a deer and he marked the spot by carving his name on a tree next to the river that has since been known as the Waits River.

Since the settlers could no longer count on a New Hampshire Grant due to the disputes , they hired lawyer William Smith to get a New York patent. This was granted on May 3, 1770 for the area. The town was named Mooretown . The name goes back to Henry Moore , the then incumbent governor of the province of New York . He received the grant and handed it over to the 30 settlers in the area. The town's constituent assembly took place on May 4, 1773. On October 23, 1788, the name was changed from Mooretown to Bradford .

In 1848 the White River Junction – Lennoxville railway reached the town, which had its own train station. Today the railway line is only used for freight trains. The main source of income for the town was agriculture. Mills were built on the rivers and in the mid-19th century Bradford had a foundry, machine factory, two grist mills, three sawmills, a paper mill and a brick factory. Bradford also made farm implements, wood goods and dishes.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Bradford, Vermont
year	1700	1710	1720	1730	1740	1750	1760	1770	1780	1790
Residents										654
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	1064	1302	1411	1507	1655	1723	1689	1492	1520	1429
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	1338	1372	1422	1235	1507	1551	1619	1527	2191	2522
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	2619	2797

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Interstate 91 leads through the town in a north-south direction from Newbury in the north to Fairlee in the south. To the east of the interstate, US Highway 5 also runs in a north-south direction. The Vermont Route 25 runs east to west from Corinth to the west of Piermont to the east. The White River Junction – Lennoxville railway had a stop in Bradford.

Public facilities

There is no hospital in Bradford. The Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Hanover, New Hampshire, is the nearest hospital.

education

Woods Library, circa 1897

Bradford is part of the Orange East Supervisory Union .

Bradford Elementary School is located in Bradford , with classes from kindergarten through sixth grade. Around 250 students attend the school.

The Oxbow High School is a secondary high school with classes from the seventh to twelfth grade in Bradford. It opened in 1971 and its catchment area includes the towns of Bradford and Newbury and five other towns in Vermont and New Hampshire. The River Bend Career and Technical Center , a regional professional technical center, is affiliated with the high school.

The Bradford Public Library was founded back in 1796. John L. Woods donated $ 15,000 in 1895 to build a new building for the library. The building, made of red bricks in Romanesque style, was inaugurated on July 4, 1895. The Woods Library Building is located on US Highway 5, South Main Street.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• John Putnam Chapin (1810–1864), politician and mayor of the city of Chicago
• Albert Sleeper (1862–1934), politician and governor of the state of Michigan
• Ursula B. Marvin (1921–2018), geologist, mineralogist and science historian

Personalities who have worked on site

• James Wilson (1763–1855), globe maker

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. Volume III, p 25 ( limited preview in Google Book search). (for development up to 1840)
• Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont historical Gazetteer, Volume 2 . Burlington 1870, p. 807 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

Commons : Bradford, 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 May 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bradford in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey , accessed 25 May 2012
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ^ Wrights Mountain . In: peakery.com . ( peakery.com ).
4. ↑ Index of / geo. In: census.gov. Retrieved May 18, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Bradford, Vermont (VT 05033) profiles: 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 March 25, 2017 (English). 
6. ^ Bradford, Vermont, New England, USA. In: virtualvermont.com. Retrieved March 25, 2017 . 
7. ^ The Vermont Historical Gazetteer: A Magazine, Embracing a History of Each Town, Civil, Ecclesiastical, Biographical and Military . Miss AM Hemenway, January 1, 1871 ( books.google.de ).
8. ^ History of Vermont, Natural, Civil, and Statistical . For the author, by C. Goodrich, January 1, 1842 ( books.google.de ).
9. ^ Bradford History & Geography. In: bradford-vt.us. Bradford Vermont. Retrieved March 25, 2017 (American English). 
10. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
11. ^ Orange East Supervisory Union. In: oesu.org. Orange East Supervisory Union, accessed March 25, 2017 . 
12. ^ Bradford Elementary School. In: beschool.org. Bradford Elementary School, accessed March 25, 2017 . 
13. ↑ OxbowHS | Bradford, Vermont. In: oxbowhighschool.org. Retrieved March 25, 2017 (American English). 
14. ^ Bradford Public Library | 21 S. Main Street, Bradford, VT 05033 Phone: [phone]. In: bradfordvtlibrary.org. Retrieved March 25, 2017 (American English).