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Basic data
Foundation :	December 26, 1753
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Windham County
Coordinates :	42 ° 55 ′  N , 72 ° 36 ′  W Coordinates: 42 ° 55 ′  N , 72 ° 36 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	1,864 (as of 2010)
Population density :	23.5 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	79.9 km 2  (approx. 31 mi 2 ) of which 79.2 km 2  (approx. 31 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	221 m
Postal code :	05301
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-18325
GNIS ID :	1462084

Dummerston is a town in Windham County , Vermont , United States with 1,864 inhabitants (2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

The village is on the west bank of the Connecticut River , the west bank of which forms the border with New Hampshire . The area belongs to the eastern foothills of the Green Mountains and is heavily forested. The West River , a tributary of the Connecticut River, crosses the western half of the town. The town's main settlement, West Dummerston, is also in its river valley .

The highest point in the area of ​​the town is Dummerston Hill with 499 m (1637 ft ) in the southwest of the area; other important elevations are Black Mountain, (367 m / 1204 ft) and Prospect Hill (335 m / 1099 ft)

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Putney , 5.1 mi
• Northeast: Westmoreland, New Hampshire , 11.8 mi
• Southeast: Chesterfield, New Hampshire , 10.4 mi
• South: Brattleboro , 2.7 mi
• Southwest: Marlboro , 15.3 km
• Northwest: Newfane , 7.3 mi

climate

The snowfall between October and May, with a peak in January of 43 cm (17 inches), is around two meters, about twice the mean snow depth in the USA. The daily sunshine duration is at the lower end of the range in the USA.

history

Historical view

The area of ​​today's Dummerston was around 1713 part of an area that was transferred from Massachusetts to Connecticut . The reason was an accidental sale of land to settlers from Massachusetts, which actually belonged to Connecticut. In 1716 this area was offered for settlement and sold to a group of investors, including William Dummer , who gave the town its name . On December 26, 1753, the area was officially proclaimed under the name Fulhum - very likely after the city of Fulham in England - by Governor Benning Wentworth . Due to Indian raids and the war with the French in this area, the consolidating meeting of the settlers could not take place within the prescribed five years, so that the area fell back to Connecticut. Wentworth renewed the proclamation three times: 1760, 1764 and 1781. The official name of the town, Fulhum , was almost never used; its residents continued to call it Dummerston . It was not until 1937 that the official name was adapted to the real conditions.

The newly married writer Rudyard Kipling lived with his wife in Dummerston between 1892 and 1896 . In his Naulakha house, built in 1892 , Kipling wrote, among other things, his most famous work, The Jungle Book . In order to keep pushy admirers away, Kipling put his postal address in the neighboring town of Brattleboro , where the postmaster very quickly discovered that Kipling received more mail than even the largest local business. For this reason, he had his own Waite post office set up with a neighbor of Kipling, which existed between 1895 and 1897 , exclusively for Kipling's post . This post office is the only post office in Vermont history designed for an individual. Postage stamps and envelopes with this stamp are coveted philatelic collectibles. Kipling's Naulakha house now serves as a museum and has been declared a National Historic Landmark .

Population development

Census Results - Town of Dummerston, Vermont
year	1700	1710	1720	1730	1740	1750	1760	1770	1780	1790
Residents										1501
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	1692	1704	1658	1592	1263	1645	1021	916	816	860
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	726	643	570	604	615	790	872	1295	1574	1863
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	1915	1864

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The town is on the American expressway system with Interstate 91 , which follows the west bank of the Connecticut River in a north-south direction . US Route 5 is parallel .

The Vermont State Route 30 crosses West Dummerston north-south and connects the place with Newfane and Townshend in the north and Brattleboro in the south.

Dummerston is also connected to the railway network: there are stations for Amtrak passenger trains in Brattleboro (about 10 km away) and Bellows Falls , a good 25 km away.

Public facilities

There are no public facilities available in Dummerston other than the public school and library listed below. The closest hospital is the Brattleboro Memorial Hospital .

education

Located in West Dummerston, Dummerston School offers education from kindergarten to middle school, i.e. eighth grade. For school education through high school (12th grade), students must travel to neighboring Brattleboro. The nearest colleges are Keene State College in Keene, New Hampshire , approximately 30 km away and Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, some 50 km away . The closest study locations are Franklin Pierce University in Rindge, New Hampshire and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst in Amherst, Massachusetts .

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• George Aiken (1892–1984), governor of Vermont and longtime US senator.
• Charles Sweetser (1808–1864), politician, member of the United States House of Representatives for Ohio

Personalities who have worked on site

• Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), writer. Lived and wrote here for a few years
• Robert J. Flaherty (1884–1951), film director who, among other things, created the first long American documentary Nanuk, the Eskimo

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in Three Parts . Part 3. Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. 65 (English, digitized version ).

Web links

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

• Homepage of the town (English)
• Profile of the municipality on the official portal www.Vermont.gov
• Entry at VirtualVermont.com (English) ( Memento from March 26, 2017 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 1462084 Dummerston in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey , accessed October 1, 2014
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Entry of Dummerston Hill on peakery.com (English)
4. ↑ Entry of Black Mountain on peakery.com (English)
5. ^ Prospect Hill. In: peakery.com. Retrieved July 22, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
7. ↑ Climate data at www.City-Data.com (English)
8. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
9. ↑ Description of the Dummerston School on their website