Granville (Vermont)

Granville
Moss Glen Falls
Location in Vermont
Granville
Basic data
Foundation :	August 2, 1781
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Addison County
Coordinates :	44 ° 0 ′  N , 72 ° 50 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 0 ′  N , 72 ° 50 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	298 (as of 2010)
Population density :	2.2 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	133.4 km 2  (approx. 52 mi 2 ) of which 133.2 km 2  (approx. 51 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	504 m
Postal code :	05747
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-29575
GNIS ID :	1462108
Website :	www.GranvilleVermont.org

Granville is a town in Addison County of the state of Vermont in the United States with 298 inhabitants (according to the 2010 census). The residents find their income particularly in the construction industry and further training; in addition, the traditional timber industry is also pronounced.

geography

Geographical location

Granville is in the center of the Green Mountains ; its western part is formed by the main ridge of the mountain range. The main settlements, Granville Village and East Granville, are in the north-south running main valley. The area is heavily forested and rugged and largely unsuitable for agricultural use.

In the area of ​​the town, the White River rises from several tributaries, which often run in small ravines; they can be recognized by the part of their name Hollow .

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Warren , 3.2 mi
• Northeast: Roxbury , 7.9 mi
• East: Braintree , 9.2 mi
• Southeast: Rochester , 2.8 mi
• South: Hancock , 5.9 miles
• West: Ripton , 17.3 km
• Northwest: Lincoln , 9.3 mi

climate

Due to its location east of the main ridge of the Green Mountains, Granville has above-average rainfall; the long-term mean is almost double that of the US mean. This precipitation usually comes down as rain; only in the period from December to March there is snowfall, which is also above average. The mean winter temperatures are −15.0 ° C (5 ° Fahrenheit ), up to 12 degrees below the mean values ​​in the United States, and the summer mean, 17.2 ° C (63 ° Fahrenheit), only reach the lower end of the range.

history

The tracts of land in the interior of the Green Mountains were not settled until long after the fertile plains around Lake Champlain and the western bank of the Connecticut River. So does Granville. It was only proclaimed for settlement on November 7, 1780 by Vermont governor Thomas Chittenden and sold on August 2, 1781 to a group around Reuben King and his sons under the name of Kingston. At that time, the area was the usual Vermont size of six by six miles, making it 23,040 acres .

The constituent city assembly took place on July 8, 1788. During the dysentery epidemic that struck many of Vermont's towns in 1806, Granville was also dead; however, an exact number is not available.

On November 6, 1833, an adjacent small area, Avery's Gore, was integrated into the town, giving the area its current, irregular shape. At the same time the town was renamed from Kingston to Granville; It has been using this name since then.

In the winter of 1840/41 the town was ravaged by two epidemics: both typhus and rubella were rampant. Since there was no doctor in town, there were a number of deaths this time too.

The seclusion of the place was broken by the construction of the Windsor – Burlington railway , which reached the town in the northeast. The place that arose there was called Sandusky (today: East Granville) and, in addition to the train station, had a printing shop and a post office. The most important source of income at that time was the timber industry. Several sawmills were built, including a steam-powered one (which soon burned down). One of these foundations was a sawmill powered by the White River that still exists today; it primarily produces panel boards for exterior walls and is now the main employer of the place.

The boom triggered by the sawmills lasted until around the middle of the 1880s and was not slowed down by the American Civil War , which did not affect the community and was only noticeable through the provision of soldiers. Until the mobilization of 1863, 43 soldiers in Granville had been drafted for nine months to three years.

After the peak of wood processing between 1880 and 1885, the population continued to decline; by 1950 it had fallen by around three quarters and has only increased slowly since then.

In 2011, Granville was one of 13 Vermont Towns cut off from the outside world by the flooding caused by Hurricane Irene.

Religions

In 1871 a congregation of the Episcopal Church was settled in Granville, which built a meeting house in 1876/77 , but which burned down again in December 1882.

Today the United Church of Christ is the only religious community based in the village.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Granville, Vermont
year	1700	1710	1720	1730	1740	1750	1760	1770	1780	1790
Residents										101
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	185	324	328	403	545	603	720	726	830	637
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	544	464	393	280	247	213	215	255	288	309
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	303	298

Culture and sights

Parks

The Granville State Reservation , a nature reserve in the wooded area of ​​the Deer Hollow Brook , has been established as a protection zone for the river and the waterfall in it. The watershed between the Connecticut River in the east and the St. Lawrence River in the west also runs within the reserve .

The Long Trail , a traditional hiking trail through the Green Mountains, also touches the community and leads over one of the peaks in the east of Granville.

Natural monuments

The Moss Glen Falls of Deer Hollow Brook - not to be confused with the fall of the same name in Stowe - is a popular photo opportunity by tourists and in Vermont picture books.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

There are two highways connections through Granville. The more important is the Vermont Route 100 between Warren and Hancock, which follows the main valley running from north to south and uses part of the substructure of the old railway line. There is also Vermont Route 12A, which connects Roxbury and Braintree and also touches the Grandville area.

The municipality does not have a rail connection or a nearby airfield.

Public facilities

In Granville there are no public institutions apart from the town hall and the school. The responsible hospital is in Middlebury.

education

The Granville Village School , which ran through 7th grade, was run jointly with the neighboring Hancock community. The school was closed in 2010. School children now attend schools in the area.

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . 3rd volume. Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. 77 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont historical Gazetteer . 1st volume. Burlington 1867, p. 39 ff .
• History of Granville to about 1880
  Copy from an 1886 History of Addison County, edited by HP Smith. Middlebury College website. ( Memento from August 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

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

• Homepage of the municipality (English)
• Profile of the municipality on the official portal www.Vermont.gov
• Entry on VirtualVermont (English) ( Memento from May 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
• Homepage of the town's main employer, the Granville Manufacturing Company from 1857

Individual evidence

1. ^ Granville 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. ↑ Summary of the jobs and industries in Grandville on city-data.com (English)
4. ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
5. ↑ Climate data at www.City-Data.com (English)
6. ↑ New York Times report on the damage caused by Hurricane Irene
7. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
8. ^ School's Out Forever - in Hancock and Granville . In: Seven Days . ( sevendaysvt.com ).