Cambridge (Vermont)

Cambridge
Cambridge Meeting House
Location in Vermont
Cambridge
Basic data
Foundation :	November 7, 1780
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Lamoille County
Coordinates :	44 ° 38 ′  N , 72 ° 50 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 38 ′  N , 72 ° 50 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	3,659 (as of 2010)
Population density :	22.2 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	164.9 km 2  (approx. 64 mi 2 ) of which 164.9 km 2  (approx. 64 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	231 m
Postal code :	05444
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-11500
GNIS ID :	1462063
Website :	townofcambridgevt.org

Cambridge is a town in Lamoille County of the state of Vermont in the United States with 3,659 inhabitants (according to the 2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

Cambridge is in the west of Lamoille County, in a rugged part of the Green Mountains and is traversed by the Lamoille River in a westerly direction. The highest mountain in Vermont, the 1339 m high Mount Mansfield , lies in the southeast, in the Mount Mansfield State Forest, partly on the territory of the town.

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Enosburgh , 16.5 miles
• Northeast: Lowell , 21.3 mi
• East: Johnson , 7.5 mi
• Southeast: Morristown , 12 mi
• South: Waterbury , 21 miles
• Southwest: Essex , 12 mi
• West: Fairfax , 14.0 km
• Northwest: Fletcher , 9.0 km

City structure

The main settlements are the Villages Jeffersonville and Cambridge Village . Cambridge is predominantly agricultural.

climate

The mean mean temperature in Cambridge is between -11.67 ° C (11 ° Fahrenheit ) in January and 16.1 ° C (61 ° 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

Cambridge was proclaimed on November 7, 1780 by Governor Benning Wentworth with an area of ​​23,533 acres (about 952 hectares) for settlement and on August 13, 1781 a group of 67 settlers and their families assigned. The first settlement is noted for 1783, the constituent city assembly took place on March 29, 1785.

Farm near Cambridge about 1908

The area of ​​the parish grew through two acquisitions of areas of adjacent towns: On October 30, 1828, the western part of Sterling was added to the area of ​​Cambridge with a width of about 3.5 km (2 miles), and the areas became Fletcher's which lay south of the Lamoille River, incorporated on November 1, 1841 to Cambridge. The area of ​​the municipality grew by these two increases by about 40% to 32,721 acres (approx. 13,241 hectares). At that time it was the largest town in Vermont; today it is in third place. Further areas were added after the civil war.

The exact number of citizens of the city who fought on the Northern side in the American Civil War is not known because the mobilization volunteers of 1861 were not recorded on the city's files; but the influx is said to have been considerable. This was different with the second mobilization in 1862: since too few men had volunteered to meet the required quota, the town decided to pay out bonuses for volunteers, which were funded by citizens who bought themselves off the service. Only in this context were lists of war participants drawn up by the city. According to this, 215 soldiers were drafted between the second mobilization and the end of the civil war; 37 of them died on the battlefield or in captivity; 41 were prematurely discharged from military service because of war injuries. The amount of hand money has also been handed down; they rose from $ 75 in 1862 to $ 500 at the end of the war. A total of more than $ 33,000 was given to 114 soldiers from Cambridge.

The times after the civil war changed the structures of the community only insignificantly. Neither notable industrial companies settled there, nor did the job creation measures of the Great Depression of 1929 change the structure of the community, which was oriented towards agricultural production. In contrast to neighboring Stowe , tourism has also largely failed to materialize, although the main town of the community, Jeffersonville, lies at the foot of Mount Mansfield with its ski resorts. The originally widespread sheep breeding was almost completely converted to dairy farming between 1840 and 1870, which is still the main industry of the municipality today.

Cambridge station was on the Burlington – Cambridge Junction railway, which operated from 1877 to 1938 .

religion

There are two parishes in Cambridge: a Roman Catholic and a United Church of Christ branch , which is located in Jeffersonville.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Cambridge, Vermont
year	1700	1710	1720	1730	1740	1750	1760	1770	1780	1790
Residents										359
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	733	990	1176	1613	1790	1849	1784	1651	1750	1689
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	1606	1696	1593	1402	1383	1435	1295	1528	2019	2667
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	3186	3659

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The municipality is connected to Vermont Route 108 , which connects the surrounding towns in a north-south direction, and Vermont Route 15 , which forms an east-west axis. Both streets cross in Jeffersonville.

Public facilities

There is no hospital in Cambridge. The closest hospital is Copley Hospital in Morrisville.

education

Cambridge is part of the Lamoille North Supervisory Union with Belvidere, Eden, Hyde Park, Johnson and Waterville . The Cambridge Elementary School offers classes from pre-kindergarten through fifth grade. Secondary schools in the school district are Lamoille Union Middle School and Lamoille Union High .

The Varnum Memorial Library is located on Main Street in Jeffersonville.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Harmon Northrop Morse (1848–1920), chemist, discoverer of paracetamol and researcher of osmotic pressure

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . tape III . Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. 43 ( limited preview in Google Book Search - for development up to 1840).
• Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont historical Gazetteer, Volume 2 . Burlington 1870, p. 595 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

Commons : Cambridge, Vermont  - collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

• Homepage of the community
• Profile of the municipality on the official portal www.Vermont.gov
• Entry on VirtualVermont (English) ( Memento from May 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cambridge in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed July 10, 2012
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Mount Mansfield . In: peakery.com . ( peakery.com ). peakery.com ( Memento of the original from July 11, 2017 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.  
4. ↑ Index of / geo. In: census.gov. Retrieved May 18, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Cambridge, Vermont (VT 05444, 05464) 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 April 17, 2017 (English). 
6. ^ Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont: natural, civil, and statistical, in three parts . 3rd volume. George H. Salisbury, Burlington 1842, p. 43 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
7. ^ Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont Historical Gazetteer: A Magazine, Embracing a History of Each Town, Civil, Ecclesiastical, Biographical and Military . AM Hemenway, 1871, p. 595 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
8. ^ Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont Historical Gazetteer: A Magazine, Embracing a History of Each Town, Civil, Ecclesiastical, Biographical and Military . AM Hemenway, 1871, p. 606 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
9. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
10. ↑ Home. In: lnsu.org. LNSU, accessed April 17, 2017 . 
11. ↑ Cambridge Elementary School - A great place to learn! In: cesvt.net. Retrieved April 17, 2017 (American English). 
12. ↑ Home. In: thevarnum.org. Varnum Memorial Library, accessed April 17, 2017 (American English).