Ferrisburgh

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Ferrisburgh
Rokeby Museum
Rokeby Museum
Location in Vermont
Ferrisburgh (Vermont)
Ferrisburgh
Ferrisburgh
Basic data
Foundation : June 25, 1762
State : United States
State : Vermont
County : Addison County
Coordinates : 44 ° 12 ′  N , 73 ° 17 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 12 ′  N , 73 ° 17 ′  W
Time zone : Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents : 2,775 (as of 2010)
Population density : 22.6 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 158.4 km 2  (approx. 61 mi 2 ) of
which 122.8 km 2  (approx. 47 mi 2 ) is land
Height : 36 m
Postal code : 05456
Area code : +1 802
FIPS : 50-26300
GNIS ID : 1462098
Website : www.FerrisburghVT.org

Ferrisburgh is a town in Addison County of the state of Vermont in the United States with 2,775 inhabitants (according to the 2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

It is located on the plains southeast of Lake Champlains near the New York State border. There are no large surveys; important rivers are Otter Creek , Little Otter Creek, and Lewis Creek. The area consists of fertile pastureland, which is used particularly for livestock farming, the predominant branch of the economy in the area. The surface of the town is flat. The highest point is the 217 m high Shellhouse Mountain .

Neighboring communities

All information as air lines between the official coordinates of the places from the 2010 census.

climate

The mean mean temperature in Ferrisburgh is between −7.8 ° C (18 ° Fahrenheit ) in January and 20.6 ° C (69 ° Fahrenheit) in July. This means that compared to the long-term mean in the USA, the place is around 10 degrees cooler in winter, while the lower mean in the USA is reached in summer. The snowfall between October and April is up to five and a half 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 in the USA.

history

Before the European settlement, the areas around Lake Champlain , including Ferrisburgh, were primarily used by the indigenous people as a hunting ground. The areas of what is now Vermont were probably not permanently inhabited, but were used by temporary camps, especially in the summer months. In the area of ​​today's Ferrisburgh, Abenaki were apparently initially resident, but they were driven out by the warring Iroquois shortly before the arrival of the first European settlers and became part of the tribes of the Saint Francis Indians in Canada bordering to the north (see Odanak ). The Iroquois in turn were ousted by the Europeans. In the south of Lake Champlain, to which Ferrisburgh also belongs, this apparently mostly happened without a fight; in the scanty documents handed down by the settlers there are no references to acts of war.

The French explorers of the area sought to settle the area for the first time; a map from 1748 shows today's Ferrisburgh as part of an area that was assigned to Monsegnieur Contrecoer, but for which no settlers could be found despite an additional amount of money and which therefore fell back to the French crown. After the victory of the British over the French, the area became the property of the British crown, and a claim back in 1772 was unsuccessful.

A first British colonization attempt, led by two officers, was also unsuccessful. With the land allocation of 24 June 1762 one of the first parcelling as part of the New Hampshire Grants , was Benning Wentworth , the governor of New Hampshire , more successful. The area was bought by a group of 64 settlers around the family of the namesake Benjamin Ferris; the purchase price and the size of a plot are recorded: $ 7.50 for 400 acres (around 16 hectares) of wilderness. This corresponded to the purchase price of a new saddle. Many of the settlers came from Dutchess County in what was then the colony of New York.

At that time the area also comprised the area of ​​today's Vergennes , which was administratively separated only on October 23, 1788 and became independent as a city. Right here, at the first waterfall of Otter Creek, which is navigable up to this point from Lake Champlain, the first settlement was built. The settlers were forcibly evicted after a short time by New York Colonel Reid, who had also bought the settlement rights for this area from the New York colony. The area claims by both the colony of New Hampshire and by New York, which also referred to other doubly sold areas, lasted until 1796 and led to civil war-like conditions in the affected settlements. So here too: The claims of Col. Reid were rejected by the military intervention of Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys , and the settlers from New Hampshire were reinstated in their rights. In 1773 Col. Reid returned with a group of Scottish settlers and expelled the resident settlers, but was again expelled by all; the Scottish settlers left the area.

These first settlements were pure summer settlements; the first wintering took place in 1784/1785. The constituent community meeting probably took place in 1786 (according to Thompson); Another source (Deming) gives March 29, 1785 as the day of the constituent city assembly.

A measles epidemic that raged in the area in the winter of 1812/1813 left more than 60 dead, mostly adults.

Several grain mills and sawmills were built at the waterfalls of the rivers in the area. The area originally entirely covered with deciduous trees (especially birch, maple and walnut) was converted into arable and pasture land through deforestation; Around 1840 sheep breeding as well as maize and potato cultivation were registered as defining agricultural products in the census statistics.

From the time of slavery in the southern states until the end of the civil war , an escape route emerged from the south of America to the northern states and to Canada, where slavery was rejected. Ferrisburgh was integrated into this escape route, the so-called Underground Railroad , as a supply point for the refugees. The Rockeby Museum , a former farm a little north of the main settlement, shows exhibits from this period. The former homestead is inscribed on Vermont's National Historic Landmarks list.

With the opening of the Bellows Falls – Burlington railway line , Ferrisburgh was connected to the local industrial centers of Burlington , Rutland and Vergennes in 1849 . This significantly improved the sale of agricultural products and accelerated the switch from sheep to dairy farming. The conversion was largely completed in 1870, while other communities in the area needed until around 1890.

Since industrialization of the community failed to materialize, the economic depression of 1929 did not have a major impact on the community; however, there was a slight emigration of residents to the cities as a result. With the construction of expressways, especially Vermont Route 7, and the establishment of two nature reserves with bathing and camping facilities on Lake Champlain in the late 1960s ( Kingsland Bay State Park and Button Bay State Park ), tourist sources of income were also opened up and migration stopped. The main source of income in the area is still the dairy industry.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Ferrisburgh
year 1700 1710 1720 1730 1740 1750 1760 1770 1780 1790
Residents 481
year 1800 1810 1820 1830 1840 1850 1860 1870 1880 1890
Residents 956 1647 1581 1822 1755 2075 1738 1768 1684 1501
year 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990
Residents 1619 1433 1338 1285 1347 1387 1426 1875 2117 2317
year 2000 2010 2020 2030 2040 2050 2060 2070 2080 2090
Residents 2657 2775

Economy and Infrastructure

Public facilities

With the exception of the usual public administration buildings, Ferrisburgh has no public facilities. The closest hospital, Fletcher-Allen Health Acre , is in Burlington.

education

Ferrisburgh is part of the Addison Northwest School District with Addison, Panton, Waltham and Vergennes .

Ferrisburgh has a six-class elementary school, the Ferrisburgh Central School , with 40 teachers and assistants for an average of 200 students; secondary schools are particularly offered in neighboring Middlebury. The closest universities are in Burlington and Norwich .

The Bixby Memorial Free Library in Vergennes is the jointly operated public library for the towns of Addison, Ferrisburgh, Panton, Vergennes and Waltham.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

  • Martin F. Allen (1842–1927), politician and Lieutenant Governor of Vermont

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ferrisburgh 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. ↑ Shell House Mountain on Peakery.com , accessed on July 28, 2017
  4. ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
  5. ↑ Climate data at www.City-Data.com (English)
  6. ↑ Economic reports of the relevant census results
  7. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
  8. ^ Addison Northwest School District. In: anwsd.org. Retrieved July 27, 2017 .
  9. ^ General Information • Bixby Memorial Free Library . In: Bixby Memorial Free Library . ( bixbylibrary.org ).
Municipalities in Addison County in Vermont (USA):
City

Vergennes

County location in Vermont
towns

Addison  | Bridport  | Bristol  | Cornwall  | Ferrisburgh  | Goshen  | Granville  | Hancock  | Leicester  | Lincoln  | Middlebury  | Monkton  | New Haven  | Orwell  | Panton  | Ripton  | Salisbury  | Shoreham  | Starksboro  | Waltham  | Weybridge  | Whiting

CDPs

Bristol (CDP) | East Middlebury (CDP) | Middlebury (CDP)

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