Calais (Vermont)

Calais
Town Hall of Calais
Location in Vermont
Calais
Basic data
Foundation :	August 15, 1781
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Washington County
Coordinates :	44 ° 22 ′  N , 72 ° 28 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 22 ′  N , 72 ° 28 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	1,607 (as of 2010)
Population density :	16.3 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	99.9 km 2  (approx. 39 mi 2 ) of which 98.5 km 2  (approx. 38 mi 2 ) are land
Height :	353 m
Postal code :	05667
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-11350
GNIS ID :	1462062
Website :	www.calaisvermont.gov

Calais is a town in Washington County in the state of Vermont in the United States . In 2010 there lived 1607 inhabitants in 842 households on an area of ​​99.9 km².

geography

Geographical location

Calais is in northeast Washington County. Cabot is to the northeast , Woodbury to the north, Worcester to the west, East Montpelier to the south and Marshfield to the east . The US Highway 2 leads south-east on the territory of the Town over and the State Route 14 crosses the town in north-south direction. In the area of ​​the town is Adamant and Bliss Pont to the south, Curtis Pont to the west and Mirror Lake to the north. To the east of Mirror Lake is the 425 m high Foster Hill.

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Elmore , 4.3 mi
• Northeast: Woodbury , 4.5 mi
• East: Cabot , 12 miles
• Southeast: Marshfield , 7.4 mi
• South: Plainfield , 5.3 mi
• Southwest: East Montpelier , 3.2 mi
• West: Middlesex , 11.5 miles
• Northwest: Worcester , 11.5 mi

Note: The town of Plainfield does not share a border with Calais. However, the distance between the two municipalities is so small that it makes sense to mention them on this list.

City structure

There are several villages in the town, Moscow was named after an incident in the flour mill by Samel Rich. When a large millstone was lifted into it, it fell, making a noise that was compared to the sound of the bells of Moscow during the siege by Napoleon.

Adamant was previously called Sodom - supposedly because the employees of the Granite Company there behaved like a bunch of hooligans - and as such had its own post office. After residents complained about the name, the Granite Company owner suggested the name Adamant. Today only the Sodom Pont reminds of the old name.

Pekin was named after Beijing . A farmer had contacts with a missionary in China who was sending him Chinese wheat to Vermont. He planted this and the field developed into a signpost: right behind the Peking wheat . Eventually the position of the field came to be known simply as the Pekin.

climate

The mean mean temperature in Calais ranges from −9.44 ° C (15 ° Fahrenheit ) in January to 20.0 ° C (68 ° 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

Calais got its name from Colonel Jacob Davis, who, along with Stephen Fay and 86 other men, held the Grant for Calais on October 1, 1780 from the Vermont General Assembly . Davis initially settled in Montpelier . This town also got its name from him. The first settlers to clear the land reached Calais in 1787. The first city meeting was held in Charlton , Massachusetts on November 20, 1780 .

The charter was signed on August 15, 1781. At Christmas 1783 the land surveying committee submitted a plan of the parish to the community and on that day they were assigned to the owners of the grants by lot.

A small sawmill was established in Gospel Hollow by Colonel Davis in 1793. Likewise a flour mill in the same year. He called the area around the mills "Calais Center". In 1828 there were nine sawmills and other companies in Calais, producing wooden watches, axes, scythes, shoes and bells. There was a schnapps distillery, a starch factory and a wool factory. After most of the land had been cleared, the farms also became larger and easier to work with.

The Walton's Directory from 1899 lists 4 post offices, 2 cheese factories, 6 mills, 12 shops selling everything from animal feed to fashion, 1 hotel, 3 stone bridges, 3 active churches and 2 doctors for Calais. The Great Flood of 1927 also caused severe damage to bridges and roads in Calais. In the 1930s the roads were expanded. State Route 14 was laid out in 1949.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Calais, Vermont
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	443	841	1111	1539	1709	1410	1409	1309	1253	1062
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	1101	1042	860	812	818	778	684	749	1207	1521
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	1529	1607

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The Vermont State Route 14 runs north-south through the west of Calais. It runs from Woodbury in the north to East Montpellier in the south. There it meets the US Highway 2 .

Public facilities

Since there is no hospital in Calais, the closest one is the Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin .

education

Together with Berlin, East Montpelier, Middlesex and Worcester, Calais is part of the Washington Central Supervisory Union

The Calais Elementary School is located in Calais . No high school, however. The older students attend Union 32 Middle and High School in Montpelier. The residents of Calais as well as the residents of Montpelier, East Montpelier, Middlesex, and Worcester have the opportunity to use the Kellogg Hubbard Library in Montpelier for free.

graveyards

There are thirteen cemeteries in Calais, some of which contain only a few graves and are privately owned, with four cemeteries mainly in use. These are Ainsworth Cemetery, Fairview Cemetery, Robinson Cemetery, and Short Cemetery.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Calvin C. Bliss (1823-1891), politician and Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas
• J. Ward Carver (1881–1942), politician and Vermont Attorney General

Web links

Commons : Calais, Vermont  - Collection of images, videos, and audio files

• official website of the municipality
• Profile of the community on the official portal www.Vermont.gov (English)
• Citi-Data Calais
• History of Calais
• Entry at VirtualVermont.com (English) ( Memento from July 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Data Access and Dissemination Systems (DADS): American FactFinder - Community Facts. In: census.gov. factfinder.census.gov, accessed October 5, 2015 . 
2. ^ Foster Hill. In: peakery.com. Retrieved October 3, 2015 . 
3. ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
4. ↑ ^{a b} Calais, Vermont, New England, USA. (No longer available online.) In: virtualvermont.com. Archived from the original on September 30, 2015 ; Retrieved October 3, 2015 . 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.  
5. ↑ Calais on the City Daty portal , accessed June 10, 2017
6. ↑ Carol Eddleman: Vermont Roots - History of Calais, Vermont. In: vt-roots.org. www.vt-roots.org, accessed October 4, 2015 . 
7. ↑ ^{a b} A short history of Calais in the Calais Town Plan 2009 ( memento of October 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on October 4, 2015
8. ↑ Population 1800–2010 according to census results
9. ↑ Calais, Vermont, New England, USA. (No longer available online.) In: virtualvermont.com. Archived from the original on September 30, 2015 ; accessed on November 29, 2015 . 
10. ^ Washington Central Supervisory Union , accessed June 11, 2017
11. ↑ Getting a Card - Kellogg Hubbard Library. (No longer available online.) In: kellogghubbard.org. Archived from the original on December 8, 2015 ; accessed on November 29, 2015 . 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.  
12. ^ Cemeteries of Vermont - Washington Co. In: nekg-vt.com. www.nekg-vt.com, accessed on November 29, 2015 .