Leicester (Vermont)

Leicester
The Meeting House in Leicester
Location in Vermont
Leicester
Basic data
Foundation :	October 20, 1761
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Addison County
Coordinates :	43 ° 52 ′  N , 73 ° 6 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 52 ′  N , 73 ° 6 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	1,100 (as of 2010)
Population density :	20.4 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	56.4 km 2  (approx. 22 mi 2 ) of which 54.0 km 2  (approx. 21 mi 2 ) are land
Height :	152 m
Postal code :	05733
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-39325
GNIS ID :	1462132
Website :	www.LeicesterVT.org

Leicester is a town in Addison County of the state of Vermont in the United States with a population of 1,100 (according to the 2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

Leicester is located on the western edge of the Green Mountains , mostly in the fertile plain around Lake Champlain . Only the eastern quarter of the site is forested and, at up to 450 meters, is 300 meters above the plain. The most important watercourse is the Otter Creek , which flows through the town in the western quarter and also forms the western border to the neighboring town of Whiting. The rest of the town's watercourses, including the Leicester River , all flow into Otter Creek. Important lakes are Lake Dunmore , the southern half of which is in the Leicester area, and Silver Lake in the northeast corner of the town. The highest point in the area is Oak Hill at around 470 m.

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Salisbury , 1.3 mi
• East: Goshen , 7.5 miles
• South: Brandon 2.2 miles
• Southwest: Sudbury , 5.4 mi
• West: Whiting , 7.9 miles

climate

The mean mean temperature of Leicester is between −8.3 ° C (17 ° Fahrenheit ) in January and 20.6 ° C (69 ° 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 October and May is up to six 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

Leicester is one of the areas that are mainly located in the fertile plain around Lake Champlain and were therefore populated early. The sale of the area took place on October 20, 1761 by the Governor Benning Wentworth in the course of the proclamation of the New Hampshire Grants . It was the usual area of ​​six by six miles, equivalent to 23,040 acres (about 93.2 km²), which was sold to a group of 69 interested parties. When taking possession, however, it was found that the entire area was not available due to measurement errors. Previously settled surrounding communities had already occupied parts of the land belonging to Leicester, which in the following years led to some strife, especially with the neighboring town of Salisbury. It was not until April 18, 1796 that the parishes involved were able to agree on common borders.

The first permanent settlement did not occur until thirteen years after the proclamation in 1774 by an extended family from Massachusetts ; however, the first parts of the wilderness had already been plowed in the previous summers. The first settlers suffered from the Indian raids; there were kidnappings and one death. The situation only stabilized after the War of Independence . The constituent city assembly was held on March 29, 1786.

The war against England of 1812 passed the town largely without consequences; Although the town sent a company to the battle of Plattsburgh , which departed in a boat from Burlington , it did not reach the site of the battle in time to intervene because of a slack. The measles epidemic of 1813 that hit the region, on the other hand, claimed a large number of victims even among the residents of Leicester; exact numbers are not known.

Until the construction of the Bellows Falls – Burlington railway line , the town was purely agricultural; the soils west of the foothills of the Green Mountains were fertile; however, there was a lack of hydropower to build greater labor. So there was no industrialization in the area; The settlement was also spread out flat and without a significant center. It was not until the opening of the Leicester station in December 1849 that a town center emerged, even if there was no significant change in the economic structure. However, the expanded sales markets led to a noticeable intensification of agriculture and, as in many other towns on the lake level, to the conversion of the previously widespread sheep breeding to dairy farming, which is still prevalent today. However, this turnaround came very late; Until the end of the 1870s, the town was one of the most important wool producers in the area.

In contrast to the previous wars, the American Civil War affected the city more strongly; many of their men became soldiers. Before the mobilization of October 17, 1863, 37 of their fellow citizens committed themselves for periods of between nine months and three years. But there was no fighting in the Leicester area; Vermont was spared these effects with the exception of a single, local hussar piece.

Due to its largely autonomous structures, the influences of the First World War , the Great Depression, the New Deal and the Second World War on the community were small. It was only with the industrial and transport policy changes of the 1950s that Leicester began to increase in population and to shift the main sources of income away from pure agriculture to manual occupations, especially the construction industry, from around 1960 and in greater form from the mid-1970s. On the southeastern shore of Lake Dunmores lies the settlement of Satan's Kingdom , which probably owes its name to the disappointment of a settler who had hoped for fertile farmland.

Religions

In Leicester, from the beginning of the settlement, the Methodists were the predominant religious group; even today they are represented by a community with the Nazarenes . There is also a Roman Catholic parish , St. Agnes.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Leicester, Vermont
year	1700	1710	1720	1730	1740	1750	1760	1770	1780	1790
Residents										343
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	522	609	548	638	660	596	737	630	634	562
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	509	479	436	468	518	511	551	583	803	871
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	974	1100

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

After the closure of the Leicester Junction station , the place is primarily developed by US Route 7 , which connects the place in a north-south direction with Salisbury and Pittsford .

Public facilities

There are no other public institutions in Leicester besides the town hall and the primary school. The closest hospital, Porter Medical Center , is in Middlebury.

education

Leicester is part of the Rutland Northeast Supervisory Union with Brandon, Chittenden, Goshen, Mendon, Pittsford, Sudbury and Whiting .

Leicester offers a six-class elementary school and kindergarten, the Leicester Central School , on its parish . The closest high school is in neighboring Brandon; the Middlebury or Burlington centers can be used for further school-leaving qualifications .

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Aaron F. Perry (1815–1893), politician and member of the United States House of Representatives
• Warren S. Johnson (1847-1911), inventor of the electric room thermostat

Personalities who have worked on site

• Henry Olin (1768–1837), politician and member of the United States House of Representatives

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . 3rd volume. Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. 102 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont historical Gazetteer . 1st volume. Burlington 1867, p. 44 ff .

Web links

Commons : Leicester, Vermont  - collection of images, videos, and audio files

• The community site (English)
• Community profile on the official Vermont.gov portal
• Entry on VirtualVermont (English) ( Memento from October 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
• History of Leicester to circa 1880 ( Memento July 20, 2011 on the Internet Archive ). Copy from a Middlebury College website: History of Addison County from 1886, edited by HP Smith.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Leicester 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. ↑ Oak Hill on Peakery.com , accessed on July 27, 2017
4. ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
5. ↑ Climate data at City-Data.com (English).
6. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the 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 
8. ^ Entry of the Leicester Central School on the homepage of the parish (English).