Fayston

Fayston
Bridge over Pine Brook
Location in Vermont
Fayston
Basic data
Foundation :	February 27, 1782
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Washington County
Coordinates :	44 ° 13 ′  N , 72 ° 52 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 13 ′  N , 72 ° 52 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	1,353 (as of 2010)
Population density :	14.3 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	94.5 km 2  (approx. 36 mi 2 ) of which 94.5 km 2  (approx. 36 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	624 m
Postal code :	05673
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-25825
GNIS ID :	1462096
Website :	www.faystonvt.com

Fayston is a town in Washington County in the state of Vermont in the United States . In 2010 there were 1353 inhabitants in 1201 households on an area of ​​94.5 km².

geography

Geographical location

Fayston is located in southwest Washington County. State Route 17 runs west-east through the town and opens up the Mad River Glen Cooperative ski area .

The town is the highest town in Vermont and borders in the south on the 1244 m high Mount Ellen. In the north the Shepard Brook flows through and in the south the Mill Brook with its tributaries flows through the town, both of which flow into the Mad River.

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Duxbury , 4 miles
• Northeast: Moretown , 11 mi
• East: Waitsfield , 5.6 mi
• South: Warren , 2.3 mi
• Southwest: Lincoln , 7.1 mi
• West: Buels Gore , 8.0 km
• Northwest: Huntington , 5.7 mi

climate

The mean mean temperature in Fayston 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

Mad River Glen ski area under construction

The town was founded in 1782 and named after Stephen Fay from Hardwick, Massachusetts, the owner of the Green Mountain Tavern, also known as Catamount Tavern , in Bennington. The Catamount Tavern was the headquarters of the Council of Safety and the Green Mountain Boys before the revolution. Five of Stephen Fay's seven sons fought in the Battle of Bennington . Among them the future Secretary of State of Vermont Joseph Fay , whose older brother John was the first to be killed in the Battle of Bennington.

The land was parceled out and sold in 1788, mostly to speculators. These bought land to aid the government of the independent Vermont Republic , but did not settle on the land. The town organized itself in 1805. The first school for 25 students opened in 1812. In 1800 10 families lived in the area of ​​the town, in 1860 the town had 800 inhabitants.

The soil in the town's area is unsuitable for agriculture due to the steep slopes and thin surface. Sheep breeding, on the other hand, was widespread, as well as the timber industry and a very small amount of talc was mined.

After the unrest and hardship in Ireland, many Irish settlers immigrated and in 1860 about a third of the population were from Ireland. The farmland was relatively cheap and the Irish immigrants use this as an opportunity to start over. However, after a few years they were forced to give up their farms and many moved away.

Until shortly after World War II, the economy and the population shrank, only when Roland Palmedo built the Fayston Stark Mountain ski area as the second largest ski area in Vermont, the population grew again. There are now two major ski areas in the town, the Mad River Glen and Mt. Ellen.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Fayston, Vermont
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	18th	149	253	458	635	684	800	694	638	533
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	466	452	424	318	284	172	158	292	657	846
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	1141	1353

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The Vermont State Route 100 runs in a north-south direction along the eastern border of the Town, of Moretown by Warren. Vermont State Route 17 branches off from it in a west-east direction . It opens up the ski area and continues to Starksboro.

Public facilities

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

education

Fayston is part of the Washington West Supervisory Union with Duxbury, Moretown, Waitsfield, Warren and Waterbury .

The Fayston Elementary School is located on German Flats Road . It has a preschool, a kindergarten and grades 1 to 6. There is also a public library in Fayston.

graveyards

There are 4 cemeteries in Fayston, but 1 of them has only a few graves. The town includes Center Fayston Cemetery, Martin Cemetery, North Fayston Cemetery and South Fayston Cemetery.

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . 3rd volume. Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. 71 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont historical Gazetteer . 4th volume. Vermont Security Guard and State Press, Montpelier 1882, p. 177 ff . 

Web links

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

• official website of the municipality
• Profile of the municipality on the official portal www.Vermont.gov
• Entry on VirtualVermont (English) ( Memento from July 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Fayston in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed June 11, 2017
2. ↑ US Census Bureau: American FactFinder - Community Facts. In: census.gov. factfinder.census.gov, accessed November 23, 2015 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e} History of Fayston Vermont. (No longer available online.) In: central-vt.com. www.central-vt.com, archived from the original on November 23, 2015 ; accessed on November 23, 2015 . 
4. ↑ Mount Ellen. In: peakery.com. Retrieved July 22, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Google Maps. In: google.de. Google Maps, accessed November 23, 2015 . 
6. ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
7. ^ Fayston on the City Daty portal , accessed June 11, 2017
8. ^ Fayston, Vermont, New England, USA. (No longer available online.) In: virtualvermont.com. Archived from the original on November 23, 2015 ; accessed on November 23, 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.  
9. ↑ Population 1800–2010 according to census results
10. ^ Fayston, Vermont, New England, USA. (No longer available online.) In: virtualvermont.com. Archived from the original on November 23, 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.  
11. ^ Washington West Supervisory Union , accessed June 11, 2017
12. ↑ faystonschool1. In: faystonschool.org. faystonschool1, accessed December 3, 2015 . 
13. ^ Public Library Fayston Vermont. The Fayston, VT Public Library Company. (No longer available online.) In: local-publiclibrary.com. Archived from the original on December 8, 2015 ; Retrieved December 3, 2015 . 
14. ^ Cemeteries of Vermont - Washington Co. In: nekg-vt.com. www.nekg-vt.com, accessed on November 29, 2015 .