Manchester (Vermont)

Manchester
Hildene, residence of Robert Todd Lincoln
Location in Vermont
Manchester
Basic data
Foundation :	August 11, 1761
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Bennington County
Coordinates :	43 ° 8 ′  N , 73 ° 5 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 8 ′  N , 73 ° 5 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	4,391 (as of 2010)
Population density :	40.2 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	109.4 km 2  (approx. 42 mi 2 ) of which 109.1 km 2  (approx. 42 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	421 m
Postal code :	05254
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-42850
GNIS ID :	1462142
Website :	www.manchester-vt.gov

Manchester is a town in Bennington County of the state of Vermont in the United States with 4,391 inhabitants (according to the 2010 census). Manchester is together with Bennington the administrative center ( Shire Town ) of the county.

geography

Geographical location

Manchester is located north of Bennington County in the Green Mountains . There are only a few rivers in the town. The Batten Kill flows south through Manchester. There are several smaller lakes, the largest being Equinox Pond . The area of ​​the town is hilly and the highest point is the 1173 m high Equinox Mountain .

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Dorset , 3 miles / 4.9 km
• Northeast: Peru , 14.5 km
• East: Winhall , 10.1 km
• Southeast: Stratton , 10.2 mi
• South: Sunderland , 2.8 km
• Southwest: Arlington , 11.5 mi
• West: Sandgate , 8.1 miles
• Northwest: Rupert , 15.2 km

City structure

The main settlement areas in the Town of Manchester are the Village Manchester and the Census-designated place (CDP) Manchester Center .

climate

The mean mean temperature in Manchester is between −7.8 ° C (18 ° Fahrenheit ) in January and 18.3 ° C (65 ° F) in July. This means that the place is around 8 ° C cooler compared to the long-term mean in the USA, but almost 2 ° C warmer than the Vermont mean. The daily sunshine duration is at the lower end of the range in the USA.

history

View of Manchester around 1870

The Grant for Manchester was awarded on August 11, 1761 as part of the New Hampshire Grants by Benning Wentworth . It comprised 26,240 acres (10,619 hectares ). Settlement began in 1764. The first settler was Samuel Rose. The town's constituent assembly took place in 1766.

Manchester was named after Manchester , Massachusetts . This in turn to Manchester in England and Charles Montagu, 1st Duke of Manchester . Even with this naming, Benning Wentworth was important to flatter the influential in England.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Manchester, Vermont
year	1700	1710	1720	1730	1740	1750	1760	1770	1780	1790
Residents										1276
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	1397	1502	1508	1525	1599	1782	1688	1897	1928	1907
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	1955	2044	2057	2004	2139	2425	2470	2919	3261	3622
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	4180	4391

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The US Highway 7 into a north-south direction by the Town. It runs along the Batten Kill. Vermont State Route 7A also runs through the town in a north-south direction . Both lead from Mt. Tabor in the north to Sunderland in the south. The Vermont State Route 30 , however, crosses the direction West-Eastern-in and runs from Dorset in the west to Peru in the east.

The Rutland – Hoosick Junction railway runs through Manchester, with one stop.

Public facilities

There is no hospital in Manchester. The closest is Southwestern Medical Center in Bennington.

education

Manchester Library

Manchester is part of the Bennington-Rutland Supervisory Union with Danby, Dorset, Langrove, Londonderry, Mt. Tabor, Pawlet, Peru, Rupert, Sunderland, Weston and Winhall .

In Manchester, Manchester Elementary Middle School offers classes from kindergarten through eighth grade.

In addition, the private high school Burr and Burton Academy offers lessons for around 680 students, preparing them for college. It was founded in 1829.

The Manchester Community Library was founded in 1897 as the Mark Skinner Library by Frances Skinner Willing in memory of her father, Mark Skinner, a Chicago judge who was born in Manchester to Richard Skinner. It was not until 2003 that this private institution became a public one.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Joseph Sweetman Ames (1864–1943), physicist and university president
• James M. Clarke (1917–1999), politician, member of the US House of Representatives

Personalities who have worked on site

• Elfriede Abbe (1919–2012), sculptor and illustrator
• Robert Todd Lincoln (1843–1926), politician, son of Abraham Lincoln, lived and died in Manchester
• Leonard Sargeant (1793–1880), Lieutenant Governor of Vermont
• Clara Sipprell (1885–1975), photographer
• Richard Skinner (1778–1833), politician, governor of Vermont

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . 3rd volume. Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. 109 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont historical Gazetteer . 1st volume. Burlington 1867.

Web links

Commons : Manchester, Vermont  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

• Homepage of the municipality (English)
• Profile of the municipality on the official portal www.Vermont.gov
• Entry on VirtualVermont (English) ( Memento from November 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Manchester in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed July 15, 2017
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Equinox Mountain on Peakery.com  ( 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 July 15, 2017  
4. ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
5. ↑ Climate data at www.City-Data.com (English)
6. ^ History of Vermont, Natural, Civil, and Statistical . For the author, by C. Goodrich, 1842 ( books.google.de ).
7. ↑ Manchester, Vermont, New England, USA. In: virtualvermont.com. Retrieved July 15, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
9. ^ Bennington-Rutland Supervisory Union , accessed July 15, 2017
10. ↑ Manchester Elementary Middle School  ( 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 July 15, 2017  
11. ^ About the Library. In: mclvt.org. Retrieved July 15, 2017 (American English).