Hardwick (Vermont)

Hardwick
Jeudevine Library Hardwick
Location in Vermont
Hardwick
Basic data
Foundation :	August 19, 1781
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Caledonia County
Coordinates :	44 ° 31 ′  N , 72 ° 21 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 31 ′  N , 72 ° 21 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	3,010 (as of 2010)
Population density :	30.2 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	100.7 km 2  (approx. 39 mi 2 ) of which 99.8 km 2  (approx. 39 mi 2 ) are land
Height :	408 m
Postal code :	05843
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-31825
GNIS ID :	1462115
Website :	http://HardwickVT.org

Hardwick is a town in Caledonia County of the state of Vermont in the United States with 3,010 inhabitants (according to the 2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

Hardwick is located in the west of Caledonia County, about 55 kilometers south of the Canadian border and is adjacent to the Lamoille County , the Orleans County and Washington County . The location in the northeast of the Green Mountains means that the surface of the town is hilly. The highest point is the 565 m high Jeudevine Mountain . Many smaller streams and rivers drain the town and flow into the Lamoille River . There are several lakes in the town area, the largest being Hardwick Lake in the center of the area.

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Greensboro , 4.8 mi
• Northeast: Stannard , 12 miles
• East: Walden , 14.2 km
• Southeast: Cabot , 5.3 mi
• South: Woodbury , 4 miles
• West: Elmore , 18.1 km
• Northwest: Wolcott , 7.4 mi

City structure

There are three centers in the parish: Hardwick, East Hardwick, and North Hardwick; the latter has since declined significantly in importance and is hardly recognizable as a settlement core.

climate

The mean mean temperature in Hardwick is between −9.44 ° C (15 ° Fahrenheit ) in January and 20.0 ° C (68 ° 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

The grant for Hardwick was proclaimed on November 7, 1780. It was fixed on August 19, 1781 in favor of Danforth Keyes and others, in the usual size of 23,040 acres . Immediately after the grant was set, there was an attempt to settle, but it failed. Permanent settlement started in 1790. In 1795 the constituent assembly of the town took place.

The name "Hardwick" was adopted from the hometown of many settlers: Hardwick , Massachusetts . In the course of the settlement history, three places in the county have borne this name (read: this postal address). The opening of the first post office of this name took place in 1810 in what is now East Hardwick, which was then called "Stevensville". The post office changed its name in 1846, but with a typo: “Set ph ens”. After three months, the post office was renamed back to "Hardwick". Until 1867, the name of the place and the post office changed several times between "Hardwick" and "East Hardwick", which has remained the last name since then. In 1864 the post office in what is now North Hardwick had adopted the name "Hardwick", which was taken over in 1867 with the closure of the post office from a third place in the area, what was then South Harwick (until 1842: Lamoilleville). Since then, this settlement has been the official bearer of the name.

Hartwick's residents make their living mainly from agriculture and forestry; until around 1910 it was also known for its granite production.

religion

There are a number of parishes in Hardwick: there are two parishes of the United Church of Christ , one each from the Assemblies of God , the Episcopal Church , the Roman Catholic Church and the Methodist . An independent church, the Promised Land Ministries , also operates.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Hartwick
year	1700	1710	1720	1730	1740	1750	1760	1770	1780	1790
Residents										3
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	260	735	867	1216	1354	1402	1369	1519	1484	1547
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	2466	3201	2641	2720	2605	2629	2349	2466	2613	2964
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	3174	3010

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The Vermont State Route 14 runs north-south through the western part of the Town. It connects Hartwick with Craftsbury in the north and Woodbury in the south. Also from the north, coming from Glover, Vermont State Route 16 runs through the eastern part of the town. It joins Vermont State Route 15, which runs in a west-east direction from Wolcott in the west to Walden in the east .

media

Hardwick Gazette

Based in Hardwick since 1889, The Hardwick Gazette is a weekly Wednesday newspaper for the parishes of Hardwick, Greensboro, Craftsbury, Wolcott, Walden, Stannard, Woodbury, Calais, Cabot and Marshfield.

Public facilities

There is no hospital in Hardwick. The closest is Copley Hospital in Morrisville.

education

Hardwick is part of the Orleans Southwest Supervisory Union , along with Stannard, Craftsbury and Greensboro in Orleans County, Wolcott in Lamoille County and Woodbury in Washington County . Hardwick Elementary School is located in Hardwick . It offers classes from kindergarten to sixth grade for 260 schoolchildren. The Hazen Union High School in Hardwick serves about 350 students from the seventh to the completion of high school in the twelfth grade.

The Jeudevine Memorial Library was donated by Malvina M. Jeudevine in memory of her husband, the merchant and politician Alden Jeudevine and their son Cornelius Jeudevine.

The Hardwick Historical Society takes care of the preservation of history .

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Thomas JD Fuller (1808–1876), politician and member of the US House of Representatives
• Levi Underwood (1821–1902), politician and Lieutenant Governor of Vermont
• David Hopkinson Nichols (1829–1900), politician and Lieutenant Governor of Colorado
• Guy W. Bailey (1876–1940), politician, lawyer, Vermont Secretary of State and President of the University of Vermont
• Ira W. Drew (1878–1972), politician and member of the US House of Representatives
• Lee E. Emerson (1898–1976), politician and governor of Vermont

Personalities who have worked on site

• Jim Fixx (1932–1984), runner and non-fiction author

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . tape III . Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. 86 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont historical Gazetteer, Volume 1 . Burlington 1867, p. 854 ff .

Web links

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

• City website
• Profile of the community on the official portal www.Vermont.gov (English)
• Entry at VirtualVermont.com (English) ( Memento from September 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Town of Hardwick in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey . Retrieved March 18, 2012
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Jeudevine Mountain on Peakery.com , accessed on June 11, 2017
4. ↑ Index of / geo. In: census.gov. Retrieved May 18, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Hardwick on the City Daty portal , accessed June 10, 2017
6. ^ Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, Natural, Civil, and Statistical , p. 86 , accessed June 11, 2017
7. ↑ Hartwick on Virtual Vermont ( Memento of the original from March 31, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 11, 2017 
8. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
9. ^ The Hardwick Gazette , accessed June 11, 2017
10. ^ Orleans Southwest Supervisory Union , accessed June 11, 2017
11. ^ Hardwick Elementary School , accessed June 11, 2017
12. ^ Hazen Union High School , accessed June 11, 2017
13. ↑ Jeudevine Memorial Library , accessed on June 10, 2017
14. ↑ Hardwick Historical Society ( Memento of the original from October 10, 2014 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 June 10, 2017