Lunenburg (Vermont)
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 Town Hall of Lunenburg |
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| Location in Vermont | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Foundation : | July 5, 1763 | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Vermont | ||
| County : | Essex County | ||
| Coordinates : | 44 ° 28 ′ N , 71 ° 42 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 ) | ||
| Residents : | 1,302 (as of 2010) | ||
| Population density : | 11.2 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 118.6 km 2 (approx. 46 mi 2 ) of which 116.7 km 2 (approx. 45 mi 2 ) is land |
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| Height : | 378 m | ||
| Postcodes : | 05904, 05906 | ||
| Area code : | +1 802 | ||
| FIPS : | 50-41425 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 1462139 | ||
| Website : | http://vermont.gov/ | ||
Lunenburg is a town in Essex County in the US state of Vermont . At the last census in 2010 it had a total of 1,302 inhabitants. It is part of the Berlin Micropolitan Statistical Area .
geography
Geographical location
Lunenburg is in southeast Essex County. The Connecticut River forms the eastern border with New Hampshire , several smaller tributaries of the Connecticut River drain the area of the town. Neal Pond is located in the center of the town . The surface is hilly, the highest point is the 689 m high Temple Mountain .
Neighboring communities
All distances are given as straight lines between the official coordinates of the places from the 2010 census.
- North: Granby , 4 miles
- Northeast: Guildhall , 6.8 mi
- East: Lancaster , 11 miles
- South: Dalton , 2.1 miles
- Southwest: Concord , 9.6 mi
- Northwest: Victory , 7.9 mi
City structure
The main settlement in Lunenburg is the Unincorporated Village Gilman , formerly Fitzdale . The village was renamed from Fitzdale to Gilman after its resident Isaac Gilman, a Russian immigrant. Gilman moved to New York City in the 1880s and later founded the Gilman Paper Company. Another paper company was in Village Fitzdale and when it was in financial difficulties Gilman bought it. He moved to Fitzdale and ran his business from there. Gilman identified himself so strongly with Fitzdale that he built two churches, one Roman Catholic and one Protestant. He just didn't build a synagogue because he was the town's only Jew. In 1921 the residents of Fitzdale renamed Gilman in his honor .
climate
The mean mean temperature in Lunenburg is between -11.7 ° C (11 ° Fahrenheit ) in January and 18.3 ° C (65 ° 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 Lunenburgh , initially with the spelling "Lunenburgh", was awarded on July 5, 1763 by Benning Wentworth as part of the New Hampshire Grants to David Page, Jonathan Grout and others. The town was named after Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand (Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel) in honor of the victory in Minden .
It is not certain when settlement began, probably before 1770; one of the oldest farms that had settled on both sides of the Connecticut River was called Lunenburgh .
The town's constituent assembly took place on September 11, 1781. There were originally 11 school districts in the town area.
Population development
| Census Results - Town of Lunenburg, Vermont | ||||||||||
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| year | 1700 | 1710 | 1720 | 1730 | 1740 | 1750 | 1760 | 1770 | 1780 | 1790 |
| Residents | 119 | |||||||||
| year | 1800 | 1810 | 1820 | 1830 | 1840 | 1850 | 1860 | 1870 | 1880 | 1890 |
| Residents | 393 | 714 | 856 | 1054 | 1130 | 1123 | 1034 | 999 | 1038 | 1019 |
| year | 1900 | 1910 | 1920 | 1930 | 1940 | 1950 | 1960 | 1970 | 1980 | 1990 |
| Residents | 968 | 880 | 1048 | 1400 | 1374 | 1299 | 1237 | 1061 | 1138 | 1176 |
| year | 2000 | 2010 | 2020 | 2030 | 2040 | 2050 | 2060 | 2070 | 2080 | 2090 |
| Residents | 1328 | 1302 | ||||||||
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
The US Highway 2 runs in a west-east direction from Concord in the west to Guildhall in the east through the town.
The Lunenburg station was at the junction of the railway Portland-Lunenburg in the railway Lunenburg Maquam .
Public facilities
The Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital in St. Johnsbury is the closest hospital for residents of the Town.
education
Lunenburg is part of the Essex-Caledonia Supervisory Union with Concord, Granby, Guildhall, Kirby, Maidstone, Victory and Waterford . The Lunenburg Schools consist of the Lunenburg Elementary School and the Lunenburg Middle School and currently offer classes from kindergarten through eighth grade for 120 students.
The Alden Balch Memorial Library is located on East Main Street in Lunenburg.
Personalities
Personalities who have worked on site
- Franklin D. Hale (1854–1940), lawyer and politician
literature
- Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . tape III . Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. 107 ( limited preview in Google Book search). (for the period up to 1840)
- Benjamin Homer Hall: History of Eastern Vermont . D. Appleton & Co., New York 1865 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
Web links
- Profile of the community on the official portal www.Vermont.gov (English)
- Entry at VirtualVermont.com (English) ( Memento from May 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lunenburg in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed May 27, 2017.
- ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
- ↑ Temple Mountain on Peakery.com , accessed May 27, 2017
- ↑ Index of / geo. In: census.gov. Retrieved May 18, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Lunenburg on Virtual Vermont , accessed May 27, 2017.
- ^ Lunenburg on the City Daty portal , accessed on May 27, 2017.
- ^ A b Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, Natural, Civil, and Statistical. P. 107, accessed on May 27, 2017.
- ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
- ↑ Essex-Caledonia Supervisory Union ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on May 27, 2017.
- ↑ Lunenburg Schoolss , accessed on May 27, 2015.
- ^ Alden Balch Memorial Library , accessed May 27, 2017.
