Duxbury (Vermont)

Duxbury
View from Camel's Hump
Location in Vermont
Duxbury
Basic data
Foundation :	June 7, 1763
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Washington County
Coordinates :	44 ° 19 ′  N , 72 ° 46 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 19 ′  N , 72 ° 46 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	1,337 (as of 2010)
Population density :	12 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	111.6 km 2  (approx. 43 mi 2 ) of which 111.2 km 2  (approx. 43 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	688 m
Postal code :	05676
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-18550
GNIS ID :	1462085
Website :	www.duxburyvermont.org

Duxbury is a town in Washington County in the state of Vermont in the United States . In 2010 there were 1,337 inhabitants in 639 households on an area of ​​111.6 km².

geography

Geographical location

Duxbury is in western Washington County. To the north is Waterbury , south Fayston , east Moretown and in the West Town bordering Huntington in Chittenden County . The Interstate 95 leads to the north past the area of Town. Camel's Hump State Park is located in the western half of the town. Centrally located in the town is the 694 m high Crossett Hill.

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Bolton , 4 miles
• Northeast: Waterbury , 8.0 km
• East: Moretown , 9.7 miles
• South: Waitsfield , 3.4 mi
• Southwest: Fayston , 2.7 mi
• West: Huntington , 8.5 miles

City structure

Duxbury Corner , on the Winooski River , was the town's first village to be populated. There were several shops in Duxbury Corner, a blacksmith, a cobbler, and a hotel. In 1915 a primary school was built on the hotel grounds.

North Duxbury is at the junction of Ridley Brook and River Road . The village had its own school and cemetery, sawmills, a train station and a post office. The first hotel was also built here, mainly accommodating tourists on the way to Camels Hump.

Just north of Ridley Brook Road is Durkeeville . Durkeeville has a private cemetery where Professor Monroe, his sister and his nine dogs were buried.

Scrabble Hill also had its own school and cemetery. An unusually beautiful view of Camel's Hump can be enjoyed from Scrabble Hill, especially from the cemetery.

In South Duxbury , the old schoolhouse is south of Harwood Union High School . Today it is a private house. The Old South Duxbury Cemetery, however, is still in use. In South Duxbury there was a fulling mill and a combined saw and apple mill. The town's first church was built by Samuel Turner in 1855. This church was shared by six denominations. The Church of Jehovah's Witnesses, built in 1986, is the second church in the city. There are two marble quarries in South Duxbury.

Other smaller parishes, but not properly delineated, sprang up near the north end of Dowsville Road, Boyden Brook, Dowsville Brook, and Ward Hill Road.

Another village with a school and cemetery was built on Crossett Hill , named after the Crossett family from Ireland.

In addition to the division into the villages and small settlements, the town is divided into a northern and a southern part. The northern part is still connected to Waterbury today, so there are shared telephone connections as well as shared mail, rescue services and fire protection. The southern part, however, is connected to Moretown and Waitsfield.

climate

The mean mean temperature in Duxbury is between -11.7 ° C (11 ° Fahrenheit ) in January and 17.2 ° C (63 ° 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

On June 7, 1763, the Governor awarded Benning Wentworth as part of the New Hampshire Grants Grant for the area around Duxbury to a group of 65 people, including a woman. However, these new owners were not settlers, but land speculators. However, since the province of New York had also granted grants for these areas and, after the end of the French-Indian War , difficulties arose with the rebellious American colonies, it was not until 1786 that the first settlers arrived in Duxbury. In 1790 Duxbury had 39 residents. A first meeting was held in 1792.

The area of ​​the town of Duxbury was divided into small villages from the beginning. These always included a school, where the service was held, and the cemetery.

In addition to agriculture, forestry was one of the sources of income in Duxbury. In addition to wood, charcoal and bark were produced. The bark was used to tan leather. In 1858 there were seven sawmills powered by water power. Sheep breeding gained importance after 1820. There were more than 100 wool mills in Duxbury. However, increasing competition and the removal of tariffs on imported wool led to a decline and dairy cattle were kept.

Duxbury was connected to the Windsor – Burlington railway in 1849 . In 1860 the population was over 1000 people. The great flood of 1927 caused great damage to houses, sawmills, railroads, bridges and roads in Duxbury along the River Road. In Duxbury and Waterbury, 20 people died in the flood.

The Great Depression in 1929 hit Duxbury hard again after the flood. The population fell to 489 people in 1950. The town was then converted. The small elementary schools were closed and a shared school was used in Duxbury Corner. Likewise, the high school, which was merged in 1966 as Harwood Union High School in Moretown. Roads were expanded in the town area in the early 1960s and the construction of Interstate 89 created additional jobs.

religion

There are several parishes in Duxbury, the Green Mountain Community Alliance Church , the Unitarian First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church , the Congretional Pilgrim Church of Duxbury, and the Baptist First Baptist Church of Duxbury .

Population development

Census Results - Town of Duxbury
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	153	326	440	652	820	895	1000	893	894	912
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	778	648	631	553	854	489	546	621	877	976
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	1289	1337

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The Vermont State Route 100 runs north to south through the east of Duxbury. It runs from Waterbury in the north to Moretown in the south. To the north it crosses Interstate 89 , which runs along the northern boundary of the town.

Public facilities

As there is no hospital in Duxbury, the closest one is the Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin .

education

Duxbury is part of the Washington West Supervisory Union with Fayston, Moretown, Waitsfield, Warren and Waterbury . Crosset Brook Middle School is located in Duxbury . It offers school classes from kindergarten through eighth grade.

Duxbury does not have its own library. However, Duxbury residents can share the Waterbury Library with Waterbury residents.

graveyards

There are thirteen cemeteries in Duxbury, four of which are operated by the town. These are the Phillips, Landon-Hayden, Sprague, and Crossett Hill cemeteries.

Personalities

Personalities who have worked on site

• Emeline Meaker (1838–1883), murderess, was the first woman to be hanged in Vermont
• Will S. Monroe (1863–1939), teacher, professor, founder of the Camel Hump Trail and author of Monroe's Cyclopedia of Education

Web links

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

• official website of the municipality
• Profile of the community on the official portal www.Vermont.gov (English)
• Citi-Data Duxbury
• 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 3, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Crossett Hill. In: peakery.com. Retrieved October 5, 2015 . 
3. ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l} History of Duxbury Vermont. (No longer available online.) In: central-vt.com. www.central-vt.com, archived from the original on October 7, 2015 ; accessed on October 6, 2015 . 
5. ^ Monroe Cemetery - Duxbury, VT. In: ancestry.com. www.rootsweb.ancestry.com, accessed October 6, 2015 . 
6. ^ Duxbury on the City Daty portal , accessed June 10, 2017
7. ↑ Population 1800–2010 according to census results
8. ^ Duxbury, Vermont, New England, USA. (No longer available online.) In: virtualvermont.com. Archived from the original on December 26, 2015 ; accessed on November 29, 2015 . 
9. ^ Washington West Supervisory Union , accessed June 11, 2017
10. ↑ Crosset Brook Middle School , accessed June 11, 2017
11. ^ Waterbury Public Library Home Page, Waterbury Vermont 05676. (No longer available online.) In: waterburypubliclibrary.com. Archived from the original on December 10, 2015 ; accessed on November 29, 2015 . 
12. ^ Cemeteries of Vermont - Washington Co. In: nekg-vt.com. www.nekg-vt.com, accessed on November 29, 2015 . 
13. ^ Duxbury Cemetery Commission. In: duxburyvermont.org. Retrieved November 29, 2015 .