Manchester (Village)

Manchester Village
Manchester Village
Location in Vermont
Manchester Village
Basic data
Foundation :	August 11, 1761
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Bennington County
Coordinates :	43 ° 10 ′  N , 73 ° 4 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 10 ′  N , 73 ° 4 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	749 (as of 2010)
Height :	270 m
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-42700
GNIS ID :	1461117
Website :	www.villageofmanchester.com

Manchester is a village in the town of Manchester in Bennington County in the state of Vermont in the United States with 749 inhabitants (according to the 2010 census). The Village Manchester is centrally located in the Town of Manchester. Manchester Center borders to the north and the Batten Kill runs along the eastern border of the village. The center of the village was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. It includes 65 buildings that contribute to the protection status and 19 buildings that do not belong to it and covers an area of ​​around 90 hectares . The heart of the Historic District is the Equinox House, protected as a single building .

history

Equinox House Manchester Village

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 in the village began in 1761. Until 1850, the core of the village consisted of many inns and taverns. With the opening of the Equinox House, the image of the village changed and more and more tourists came to Manchester. The oldest marble sidewalk from 1850 has been preserved.

Population development

year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents		478	423	337	325	454	403	435	563	561
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	602	749

Manchester Village, Vermont census results

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 Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey , accessed on August 15, 2017
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Asset Detail. In: nps.gov. npgallery.nps.gov, accessed on August 27, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Asset Detail. In: nps.gov. npgallery.nps.gov, accessed on August 27, 2017 . 
5. ^ Village of Manchester Vermont Town Charter. In: villageofmanchester.com. Retrieved August 15, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Population 1910–2010 according to census results