Goshen (Vermont)

Goshen
Town Offices of Goshen
Location in Vermont
Goshen
Basic data
Foundation :	February 2, 1792
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Addison County
Coordinates :	43 ° 52 ′  N , 72 ° 59 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 52 ′  N , 72 ° 59 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	164 (as of 2010)
Population density :	3.1 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	53.9 km 2  (approx. 21 mi 2 ) of which 53.5 km 2  (approx. 21 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	516 m
Postal code :	05733
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-28600
GNIS ID :	1462104

Goshen is a town in Addison County of the state of Vermont in the United States with 164 inhabitants (according to the 2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

Goshen is located in the middle of the ridge of the Green Mountains and offers little agricultural land due to the unevenness of the terrain. The most important watercourse is the Leicester River , the highest point with about 1017 m is the Cape Lookoff Mountain in the west of the town.

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Ripton , 17.3 km
• Northeast: Hancock , 5.9 mi
• East: Rochester , 2.8 miles
• South: Chittenden , 10.5 km
• Southwest: Brandon , 16.7 mi
• West: Leicester , 18.2 miles
• Northwest: Salisbury , 18 miles

climate

The mean mean temperature of Goshen is between −7 ° C (19 ° Fahrenheit ) in January and 20 ° C (68 ° 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 mid-October and mid-May 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

Goshen is one of the late land grants in what is now Vermont: it was designated on February 23, 1782 with 13,000 acres (about 52.6 km²); in addition, two gores were struck in neighboring Caledonia County : unintentionally created pieces of land with 2828 and 7839 acres (11.4 and 31.7 km²), which came about through incorrect surveys. The land was only sold to 66 interested parties, mostly from Litchfield County in Connecticut , on February 2, 1792 , after which a discussion arose as to whether the two Gores might be large enough to be offered as independent towns. After this discussion was decided in favor of the annexation of the land to Goshen, in a second grant on November 1, 1798, the same 66 land buyers of the first grant confirmed the ownership of the land again. The first settler was registered in March 1807, the second one a year later. The constituent city assembly took place on March 29, 1814; at that time 17 families lived in the area of ​​the town. The census of 1800 already documents 4 residents in Goshen, whose origin or whereabouts are unknown and cannot be reconciled with the various histories of Vermont.

On November 9, 1814, the northern part of the poorly located, uninhabitable ridge, physically divided into two and only sparsely populated, Town Philadelphia was added to the Goshen area.

The remote location of the community in the middle of the mountains, which only allow extensive settlement in the valley basins, meant that the railway lines that were built through Vermont from around 1845 onwards passed Goshen, so that there was no industrialization and no notable expansion of the sales area for agricultural products . However, the transport options now available led to an emigration from the town to the metropolises on the east coast, which attracted jobs in new factories and ports, as well as to the pioneering cities of the west that were now accessible and promised better land use. Between 1840 and 1860 the population of the previously sparsely populated town fell to almost half. The trend continued.

The Civil War, World War I, the Great Depression in the late 1920s and World War II did not leave much of an impact on Goshen; only the population continued to decline - until the 1950 census - and then recovered only slightly. In June 1969 the last of the four one-room schools in the community was closed; the few children have since been taught in neighboring Brandon . Only since the development of nearby Middlebury into a local center, in particular through its college, has the population increased again, but without at least reaching the population density before the railway was built.

Since the first settlement, Goshen has been used primarily for agriculture. The timber industry has not developed on a large scale because of the inadequate transport routes; the residents earn their living growing potatoes and grain; sheep farming, which was widespread in Vermont until the second third of the 19th century, has been given up in favor of a poorly developed dairy industry. The Appalachian Trail , which runs over the Green Mountains in the east of the town , also has tourists in the town.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Goshen, Vermont
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	4th	86	290	555	621	486	394	330	326	311
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	286	212	131	84	83	94	76	120	163	226
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	227	164

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The Vermont State Route 73 leading into an east-west direction through the southern part of the town and connects through the Green Mountains across Rochester in the East with the Vermont State Route 7 and with the local centers Middlebury in the north and Rutland to the south.

Public facilities

Goshen does not have any independent public institutions. The closest hospital is the Porter Medial Center in Middlebury.

education

Goshen belongs to the Rutland Northeast Supervisory Union with Brandon, Chittenden, Leicester, Mendon, Pittsford, Sudbury and Whiting .

There is no library in Goshen. The closest are in Brandon, Middlebury or Killington.

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . 3rd volume. Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. 75 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Samuel Swift: History of Addison County . Middlebury 1859. Online versions and scans at archive.org
• Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont historical Gazetteer . 1st volume. Burlington 1867, p. 35 ff .
• History of Goshen to circa 1880
  Copy from an 1886 History of Addison County, published by HP Smith. Middlebury College website. ( Memento from August 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

Commons : Goshen, Vermont  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

• Profile of the municipality on the official portal www.Vermont.gov
• Entry on VirtualVermont (English) ( Memento from September 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
• goshenvt.org former homepage ( memento from March 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Goshen in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed October 1, 2014
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Cape Lookoff Mountain on Peakery.com , accessed July 28, 2017
4. ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
5. ↑ Climate data at www.City-Data.com (English)
6. ↑ Population 1800–2010 according to census results
7. ↑ Rutland Northeast Supervisory Union ( Memento of the original from July 28, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 28, 2017