Franklin (Vermont)

Franklin
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Location in Vermont
Franklin
Basic data
Foundation :	March 19, 1789
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Franklin County
Coordinates :	44 ° 58 ′  N , 72 ° 53 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 58 ′  N , 72 ° 53 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	1,405 (as of 2010)
Population density :	14.1 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	105.6 km 2  (approx. 41 mi 2 ) of which 100.0 km 2  (approx. 39 mi 2 ) are land
Height :	186 m
Postal code :	05457
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-27100
GNIS ID :	1462100
Website :	www.FranklinVermont.com

Franklin is a town in Franklin County in the state of Vermont in the United States with 1,405 inhabitants. (according to the 2010 census)

geography

Geographical location

Franklin is located in the north of Franklin County near the Canadian border , in the middle of the Green Mountains . In the center of the settlement lies the approximately 5 km² large Lake Carmi , which was a thorn in the side of the first settlers, and the Lake Carmi State Park located on it are now considered the tourist attractions of the place. Several small streams run through the town, they flow in a southerly direction and flow into the Lamoille River . The area is hilly, with no significant elevations, the highest being Gates Hill, 253 m high .

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Bedford, Canada, 17 mi
• Northeast: Frelighsburg (Canada), 6.2 mi
• East: Berkshire , 5.9 miles
• South-east: Enosburgh , 14.5 km
• South: Fairfield , 12 miles
• Southwest: Sheldon , 5.9 mi
• West: Highgate , 10 miles
• Northwest: Saint-Armand , Canada, 7.5 mi

City structure

The three settlement centers of the village are located around Lake Carmi : Franklin in the northwest, North Franklin and South Franklin in the northeast and southeast of the lake.

climate

The mean mean temperature in Franklin is between −9.44 ° C (15 ° Fahrenheit ) in January and 18.3 ° C (65 ° 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

When it was founded in 1789 after the owner of the land, Jonathan Hunt, still known as Huntsburg , the residents of the village named their settlement Franklin after a vote in 1802 in order to increase the likelihood of becoming the administrative seat of the district, which was founded in 1792 and after the close Benjamin Franklin , who died two years earlier, had been named. The administrative seat was moved to St. Albans . Central Lake Carmi has also only had this name since a vote in 1920; previously it was known as Huntsburg Pond , later as Franklin Pond and from the end of the 19th century as Silver Lake . The Lake Carmi is named after Carmi Marsh, the builder of a great Civil War monument in the center.

religion

Franklin has two parishes: a Roman Catholic and a Methodist . A primary school is also located in the village.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Franklin, Vermont
year	1700	1710	1720	1730	1740	1750	1760	1770	1780	1790
Residents										46
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	280	714	631	1129	1410	1646	1781	1612	1439	1300
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	1145	1108	994	1001	1021	878	796	821	1006	1068
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	1268	1405

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The Vermont Route 120 runs north of Lake Carmi in west-east direction. In the west of Lake Carmi it turns south, in a north-westerly direction the Vermont Route 235 leads from this junction towards the Canadian border, in the east of the lake Vermont Route 236 also branches off in a south direction. There is no Amtrak station in Franklin. The next is in St. Albans.

Public facilities

The Northwestern Medical Center in St. Albans is the closest hospital for residents of the Town.

education

Franklin is part of the Franklin Northwest Supervisory Union with Highgate, Sheldon and Swanton . The Franklin Central School caters for school classes from kindergarten through sixth grade.

The Haston Library goes back to Elvira S. Haston, who after her death in North Broofield, Massachusetts in 1906 left $ 12,297.16 in her estate from the Town of Franklin for building a library.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Seth Wakeman (1811–1880), American politician and New York representative in the US House of Representatives
• Charles W. Gates (1856–1927), American politician and governor of Vermont

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . 3rd volume. Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. 72 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont historical Gazetteer . 2nd volume. Burlington 1870, p. 217 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

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

• Community website
• Profile of the community on the official portal www.Vermont.gov (English)
• Entry to VirtualVermont (English) ( Memento of 4 June 2016 Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Franklin in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey , accessed March 17, 2012.
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Gilson Mountain on Peakery.com , accessed on May 8, 2017
4. ↑ Index of / geo. In: census.gov. Retrieved May 18, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Franklin on the City Daty portal , accessed May 9, 2017
6. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
7. ^ Franklin Northwest Supervisory Union. Retrieved May 9, 2017
8. ^ Franklin Central School , accessed May 9, 2017
9. ^ Haston Library ( Memento October 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed May 9, 2017