Bridgewater, Vermont

Bridgewater
Bridgewater Historical Society building
Location in Vermont
Bridgewater
Basic data
Foundation :	July 10, 1761
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Windsor County
Coordinates :	43 ° 44 ′  N , 72 ° 36 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 44 ′  N , 72 ° 36 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	936 (as of 2010)
Population density :	7.3 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	128.3 km 2  (approx. 50 mi 2 ) of which 128.0 km 2  (approx. 49 mi 2 ) are land
Height :	335 m
Postal code :	05034
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-08275
GNIS ID :	1462050
Website :	www.bridgewater.vt.gov

Bridgewater is a town in Windsor County , Vermont , United States with 936 residents (2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

The place is in the western area of ​​Windsor County, in the eastern foothills of the Green Mountains . The terrain is hilly. Some smaller rivers flow through the town and in the southern area the US Highway 4 runs from Woodstock in the east to Killington in the west. Highway 4 follows the course of the Ottauquechee River .

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Barnard , 4.1 mi
• North-east: Pomfret , 19.9 km
• East: Woodstock , 9.8 miles
• Southeast: Reading , 6.9 mi
• South: Plymouth , 2.9 mi
• West: Killington , 6.5 miles
• Northwest: Stockbridge , 5.4 mi

City structure

In the town area are the Hamlets Bridgewater Village, Bridgewater Corners, West Bridgewater and Bridgewater Center which was originally known as Briggs.

climate

The mean mean temperature in Bridgewater ranges from −8.3 ° C (17  ° F ) in January to 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

Bridgewater was founded on July 10, 1761 as a New Hampshire Grant . A group of 61 people, including the future first Governor of New Hampshire Meshech Weare , acquired the grant. The town was probably named by Benning Wentworth after Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater .

Sources of income for the residents of the town were agriculture and the production of economic goods.

Religions

Congregational Church in Bridgewater

There is one church in Bridgewater, the congregational Bridgewater Congregational Church .

The first parish of the congregational church was established in 1793. The parish church was built in 1828. A Universalist Church of America church was built in 1829, but it burned down a few years later. There are also Baptist and Methodist churches .

Population development

Census Results - Town of Bridgewater, Vermont
year	1700	1710	1720	1730	1740	1750	1760	1770	1780	1790
Residents										293
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	781	1125	1125	1311	1363	1311	1292	1141	1084	1124
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	972	874	808	741	895	903	776	783	867	895
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	980	936

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The main route in Bridgewater is US Highway 4, which runs east to west, from Woodstock in the east to Killington in the west. The closest passenger rail stations are in Killington and Rutland .

Public facilities

The Rutland Regional Medical Center in Rutland is the closest hospital to Bridgewater.

Bridgewater does not have a public library; the closest ones are in Woodstock and Killington.

There are 12 cemeteries in Bridgewater 9 municipal and 3 private which are privately owned.

education

The Bridgewater Village School merged with the Pomfret Elementary School in March 2015. The new school is now called The Prosper Valley School and is located in Pomfret. She has classes from pre-kindergarten through sixth grade. Bridgewater 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

• Hezekiah Bradley Smith (1816–1887), inventor and politician

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in Three Parts . Part 3. Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. 30th f . ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Bridgewater, 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. ↑ Bridgewater 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. ^ ^{A b c} Lewis Cass Aldrich, Frank R. Holmes: History of Windsor county Vermont. D. Mason & Co., Syracuse NY 1891, pp. 601 ff., ( Digitized version ).
4. ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
5. ↑ Bridgewater, Vermont. In: vt.gov. Retrieved July 16, 2016 . 
6. ↑ ^{a b c d} climate, traffic and school data at www.City-Data.com (English)
7. ^ Bridgewater, Vermont, New England, USA. In: virtualvermont.com. Retrieved July 16, 2016 . 
8. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
9. ^ Bridgewater Historical Society | Bridgewater, Vermont “Cemeteries. In: bridgewaterhistory.org. Retrieved July 16, 2016 . 
10. ^ Schools - Bridgewater, Vermont. In: vt.gov. Retrieved July 16, 2016 . 
11. ^ The Prosper Valley School. In: google.com. sites.google.com, accessed July 16, 2016 .