Hubbardton

Hubbardton
Hubbardton entrance sign
Location in Vermont
Hubbardton
Basic data
Foundation :	June 15, 1764
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Rutland County
Coordinates :	43 ° 44 ′  N , 73 ° 10 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 44 ′  N , 73 ° 10 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	706 (as of 2010)
Population density :	9.9 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	74.7 km 2  (approx. 29 mi 2 ) of which 71.1 km 2  (approx. 27 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	191 m
Postal code :	05732
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-34450
GNIS ID :	1462120
The battlefield at Hubbardton

Hubbardton is a town in Rutland County of the state of Vermont in the United States with 706 inhabitants (according to the 2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

Hubbardton is located in a wooded lake district on the western edge of the Green Mountains , which are part of the plains around Lake Champlain to the northwest and the Hudson River to the west. The town has no notable mountains; The southern part of Lake Hortonia and the northern part of Lake Bomoseen are the main bodies of water in their area .

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Sudbury , 1.4 mi
• Northeast: Brandon , 6.6 mi
• East: Pittsford , 8.3 miles
• Southeast: West Rutland , 7.6 mi
• South: Castleton , 1.9 mi
• Southwest: Fair Haven , 6.7 mi
• West: Benson , 9.3 miles
• Northwest: Orwell , 7.8 miles

Note: Hubbardton has no common border with West Rutland, Fair Haven and Orwell, but the parishes are so close together that it makes sense to include them on the above list.

climate

The mean mean temperature in Hubbardton ranges from −6.7 ° C (20 ° Fahrenheit ) in January to 21.1 ° C (70 ° Fahrenheit) in July. Thus, the place is largely in the long-term mean of Vermont. At more than two meters, snowfalls between October and May are considerably higher than the average snow depth in the USA. The daily sunshine duration is at the lower end of the range of values ​​in the USA, in the period from mid-October to mid-December it was even considerably lower.

history

The Hubbardton area was offered for settlement under the New Hampshire Grants by the Governor of the New Hampshire Colony, Benning Wentworth , and sold to a group of interested parties. The confirmation of the sale (charter) took place on June 15, 1764 and was one of the last founding of the New Hampshire colony; the last was in October 1764. The first settlers, two families from Norfolk, Connecticut , did not settle here until the spring of 1774, followed by a few other families. This area was far to the north of the settlement borders at that time and was exposed to the dangers of attacks by native Indians and the hostilities of the British army stationed in nearby Fort Ticonderoga as part of the looming War of Independence . After the outbreak of war, the American conquest of the fort and the British reconquest, the town was evacuated on July 6, 1777 as part of the evacuation of American troops. At that time there were nine families in Hubbardton.

In the wake of the evacuation, there was an Indian attack on the same day under the leadership of the British pursuing the American army; there were a number of prisoners among the settlers, some of whom were later able to free themselves or were freed in a later counter-attack by the American army. The day after the evacuation and capture of the residents, on July 7th, 1777, the Battle of Hubbardton broke out , the only war event on Vermont soil during the Revolutionary War. The bones of the mostly unburied dead were only recovered and laid to rest in 1784 by the settlers who returned from 1780, i.e. after the end of the war of independence. The battlefield is now listed as a Historic Site on the National Register of Historic Places under number 71000059.

From 1783 the influx of new settlers into the now safe area increased. In March 1785, the number of pioneers had increased so much that the constituent city assembly could be held. In 1785 the first barn was built from beams and boards, and in 1786 the first residential building that was not a log cabin. Both structures are remarkable because the first sawmill, which was otherwise one of the first structures in the repopulation of a site in Vermont, was not built until 1787; the materials for the structures had been carried here in an ox cart over a distance of 12.5 miles through the pathless wilderness.

The sawmill from 1787 was followed two years later by the grain mill, which was also one of the first buildings. Only then were the small watercourses in the area consistently used for all kinds of water mills.

Hubbardton developed purely agriculturally. At first, maize, potatoes and wool from sheep farming were the predominant products. This was also the case in the surrounding communities, and just as there, Hubbardton's agriculture switched to new products with the development of the markets of the east coast and the connection of the great lakes through the construction of the railway lines from about 1850 onwards; Wheat, barley and rye still determine production in the fields, and dairy farming that of the stables. The connection to the railway lines, however, also led to an emigration of the population, primarily to the new agricultural expanses of the west, but also as workers to the economic zones of the east coast, primarily Boston . This trend was only reversed with the economic and population boom in surrounding settlements such as Rutland and Castleton, during which Hubbardton became a popular place to live for commuters.

Religions

The first religious communities in the community were the Congregationalists (from 1782), the Baptists (from 1787), Methodists (from 1809) and the Universalists (from 1830). The first meeting house was built by the Baptists in 1800; the Congregationalists' Meeting House, built in 1818, burned down in January 1737 and was rebuilt the following year.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Hubbardton, Vermont
year	1700	1710	1720	1730	1740	1750	1760	1770	1780	1790
Residents										404
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	641	724	810	865	719	701	606	606	533	506
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	488	455	328	307	346	332	238	228	490	576
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	752	706

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Vermont State Route 30 runs through Hubbardton and connects the place with Sudbury in the north and Castleton in the south. The nearest Amtrak train station is in Castleton, the nearest airfield in Fair Haven.

Public facilities

Aside from the usual municipal offices and library, Hubbardton has no public facilities. The closest hospital is the Rutland Regional Medical Center in Ruland City .

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . 3rd volume. Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. 91 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

Commons : Hubbardton, 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 June 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hubbardton in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey , accessed 1 October 2014
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
4. ↑ Climate data at www.City-Data.com (English)
5. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results