Isle La Motte
Isle La Motte | ||
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Statue of Samuel de Champlain on the site of his first shore leave in what is now Vermont |
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Location in Vermont | ||
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Basic data | ||
Foundation : | October 27, 1779 | |
State : | United States | |
State : | Vermont | |
County : | Grand Isle County | |
Coordinates : | 44 ° 52 ′ N , 73 ° 21 ′ W | |
Time zone : | Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 ) | |
Residents : | 471 (as of 2010) | |
Population density : | 23.1 inhabitants per km 2 | |
Area : | 43.2 km 2 (approx. 17 mi 2 ) of which 20.4 km 2 (approx. 8 mi 2 ) is land |
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Height : | 30 m | |
Postal code : | 05463 | |
Area code : | +1 802 | |
FIPS : | 50-35875 | |
GNIS ID : | 1462125 | |
Website : | www.IsleLaMotte.org |
Isle La Motte is an island and town in Grand Isle County of the state of Vermont in the United States with 471 inhabitants (according to the 2010 census).
geography
Geographical location
Isle La Motte is located in Lake Champlain , around 15 kilometers south of the Canadian border and right on the border with New York State . It extends about nine kilometers in a north-south direction and about three kilometers in an east-west direction; the area of the island is 20.6 km². It is connected to Alburg in the east via a bridge. The surface is flat.
Neighboring communities
Since the Isle La Motte is an island, the road connections that were created via dams in Lake Champlain often have to cover much longer distances to the surrounding places than the straight-line distance indicates. Therefore, in the following list, the distances by road are given as an additional second item.
- North: Alburgh (11 km / 15 km)
- North: North Hero (7 km / 15 km)
- Northeast: Swanton (17 km / 28 km)
- South East: Grand Isle (18 km / 28 km)
- Southeast: St. Albans (18 km / 50 km)
- South: South Hero (26 km / 38 km)
- West: Plattsburgh (22 km / 37 km)
climate
The mean mean temperature in Isle La Motte ranges from −9.44 ° C (15 ° Fahrenheit ) in January to 20.6 ° C (69 ° 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
Like the entire area around Lake Champlain , Isle La Motte has been around since around 8000 BC. Inhabited as evidence of camps, spearheads and flint stones. The written history of the island did not begin until 1602 with the expedition of Samuel de Champlain , who later discovered Lake Champlain, which was later named after him, and who set foot in what is now Vermont on Isle La Motte. In 1666 a fort was built on the island to protect the French colonists living in the north against raids by the local tribes, which could hold 300 soldiers and was commanded by Pierre de St. Paul, Sieur de la Motte . The island is named after this first commander. A chapel was built inside the fort for St. Anne, mother of Mary. After four years of existence as the southernmost outpost of France on the American continent, the fort was abandoned and razed. The troops stationed here were ordered back to Canada. The St. Anne's Chapel was also torn down, but the local Mohawks remembered the place as Tgawistaniyonteh , which means "where a bell is hung".
After the conquest of the area by the English and subsequently the American War of Independence , the Isle La Motte was planned for settlement by veterans of the War of Independence at the same time as the areas of Alburgh and Two Heros in 1779. In the area of the Isle of Motte , as it was named in the declaration, 96 settlers were registered.
Between 1802 and 1830 the island was named Vineyard ; the reason for the renaming and renaming is unknown. The island's first post office, which opened in 1829, was still addressed as Vineyard until 1853 , when it was finally brought into line with its current name. Another post office, the Fisk Post Office - named after its operator - operated between 1892 and 1929.
religion
In 1892 Isle La Motte was rediscovered by a Burlington Catholic community as the site of the region's first St. Anne's Chapel; the Indian name of the island was decisive. The chapel was rebuilt with donations in 1893 and has served as an important place of pilgrimage for Vermont, New York and southeastern Canada ever since. On Isle La Motte there is a Roman Catholic and a Methodist congregation. The pilgrimage site of St. Anne's Chapel is constantly manned by a Catholic priest.
Population development
Census results - Town of Isle La Motte, Vermont | ||||||||||
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year | 1700 | 1710 | 1720 | 1730 | 1740 | 1750 | 1760 | 1770 | 1780 | 1790 |
Residents | 47 | |||||||||
year | 1800 | 1810 | 1820 | 1830 | 1840 | 1850 | 1860 | 1870 | 1880 | 1890 |
Residents | 132 | 338 | 312 | 454 | 435 | 476 | 564 | 497 | 504 | 551 |
year | 1900 | 1910 | 1920 | 1930 | 1940 | 1950 | 1960 | 1970 | 1980 | 1990 |
Residents | 508 | 510 | 385 | 352 | 335 | 295 | 238 | 262 | 393 | 408 |
year | 2000 | 2010 | 2020 | 2030 | 2040 | 2050 | 2060 | 2070 | 2080 | 2090 |
Residents | 488 | 471 |
Culture and sights
Natural monuments
The Chazy Fossil Reef
The black-gray, marble-like stone of the island turned out to be an essential geological relic, which was quarried in several quarries, especially on the southern tip of the island and used in many well-known buildings in the region such as the Brooklyn Bridge and the Radio City Music Hall in New York: it is the remains of one of the oldest reefs on earth. The reef formed 480 to 450 million years ago in a shallow body of water near the equator and extended over a length of 2,000 kilometers. It is particularly noteworthy that corals were found among the reef builders here for the first time, although not as a main contributor. The quarries were closed after the importance of the formations was recognized and are now used by geologists as profound outcrops. Since 2009 the fossil reef has been a national natural monument.
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
The Vermont Route 129 runs north to south through the center of Town. It connects Ilse La Motte with neighboring Alburgh via a bridge. There is no Amtrak stop in Isle La Motte. The nearest stops are in Rouses Point or St. Albans.
Public facilities
There is no hospital in Isle La Motte. The closest hospital is the University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington.
education
Isle La Motte belongs to the Grand Isle Supervisory Union with Alburgh, Grand Isle, North Hero and South Hero . The Isle La Motte School offers classes from kindergarten to sixth grade.
The Isle La Motte Free Public is located on Main Street. The Isle La Motte Historical Society was founded in 1925. She takes care of the preservation of the local relics of history; this also includes a school house from 1840, a forge and a log house from the same period, which have been put together to form a small historic village.
Personalities
sons and daughters of the town
- Nelson W. Fisk (1854–1923), Lieutenant Governor of Vermont
literature
- Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. Volume III, p 96 ( limited preview in Google Book search). (for development up to 1840)
- Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont historical Gazetteer, Volume 2 . Burlington 1870, p. 554 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
Web links
- Homepage of the municipality (English)
- Entry at VirtualVermont.com (English) ( Memento from August 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- Profile of the municipality on the official portal www.Vermont.gov
- Side of the Saint Annes Chapel
Individual evidence
- ↑ Isle La Motte in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed March 17, 2012
- ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
- ↑ Index of / geo. In: census.gov. Retrieved May 18, 2019 .
- ↑ Isle La Motte on the City Daty portal , accessed May 6, 2017
- ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
- ^ Grand Isle Supervisory Union , accessed May 6, 2017.
- ^ Isle La Motte School , accessed May 6, 2017.
- ^ Isle La Motte Free Public , accessed May 6, 2017.
- ↑ Isle La Motte Historical Society , accessed May 6, 2017