Mount Holly (Vermont)

Mount Holly
Town Hall of Mount Holly
Location in Vermont
Mount Holly
Basic data
Foundation :	October 31, 1792
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Rutland County
Coordinates :	43 ° 26 ′  N , 72 ° 49 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 26 ′  N , 72 ° 49 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	1,237 (as of 2010)
Population density :	9.7 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	128.4 km 2  (approx. 50 mi 2 ) of which 127.4 km 2  (approx. 49 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	515 m
Postal code :	05758
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-47200
GNIS ID :	1462155
Website :	www.mounthollyvt.org

Mount Holly is a town in Rutland County , Vermont , United States with a population of 1,237 (2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

Mount Holly is located in southeast Rutland County, in the Green Mountains . The area of ​​the town is interspersed with hills and valleys. The Mill River , a tributary of the Otter Creek , rises on the northern edge of the Green Mountains National Forest, which runs through the southwest of the town and drains the area of ​​the town with its tributaries flowing westwards. The Brook Branch drains eastwards with its tributaries. There are several lakes in the area of ​​the town. Among them Lake Ninevah in the northeast and the centrally located Star Lake. To the east is the Okemo State Forest with the ski areas, the slopes of which lead east from 1019 m high Okemo Mountain to Ludlow.

Neighboring communities

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

• Northeast: Plymouth , 7.3 mi
• East: Ludlow , 7.2 mi
• South: Weston , 2.2 mi
• Southwest: Mount Tabor , 8.0 mi
• West: Wallingfort , 15.8 km
• Northwest: Shrewsbury , 4.2 mi

climate

The mean mean temperature in Mount Holly is between -7.2 ° C (19 ° Fahrenheit ) in January and 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

Mount Holly was founded on October 31, 1792, from an area of ​​land between Wallingford and Ludlow that was not previously allocated. Part of the area was named Jackson Gore after Abraham Jackson, one of the first settlers, but that part belonged to Wallingford. The settlement started in 1781 with a grant to Abraham Jackson and 29 other settlers. The first settlers came from Connecticut , Rhode Island and Massachusetts . The first city assembly took place in Rutland.

Ten years later, residents of the Jackson Gore area, along with a few neighbors from Wallingford and Ludlow, petitioned the legislature to establish their own town. From these areas the town of Mount Holly was founded in 1792. The origin of the name has not been passed down. It could go back to the early Quaker settlement.

There are several villages in the area of ​​the town. Belmont is centrally located, and there are Bowlsville, Goodellville, Healdville, Hortonville and Tarbellville. A location between Healdville and the Village Mount Holy is Summit, also called Summit Station. This is where the last nail of the railway line connecting Burlington and Boston was driven.

Religions

Quakers , Methodists , Baptists and the Congregational Church were founded early on in Mount Holly .

Population development

Census Results - Town of Mount Holly, Vermont
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	668	922	1157	1318	1356	1534	1522	1582	1390	1214
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	999	871	856	727	656	567	517	687	938	1093
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	1241	1237

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The Vermont State Route 103 extends in the east-west direction centrally through the Town from Ludlow by Clarendon. The course of the Mill River follows the Vermont State Route 155 centrally through Mount Hallow. The Bellows Falls – Burlington railway line runs mostly parallel to State Route 103 .

Public facilities

Mount Holly does not have its own hospital. The closest hospital is the Rutland Regional Medical Center in Rutland.

education

Mount Holly belongs to the Two Rivers Supervisory Union with Andover, Baltimore, Cavendish, Chester, Ludlow and Plymouth . There is one school in Mount Holly, the Mount Holly School, with classes from pre-kindergarten through 6th grade.

The Mount Holly Town Library is located near Star Lake in Belmont. The library was founded in 1914. At the time, CW Parmenter donated 277 books. The building in which the library is located was built as a Methodist Church in 1884 and in 1923 the building was given to the town of Mount Holly as a town hall and library. It has been used exclusively as a library since 1988 and was renovated in 2008.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Horatio Earle (1855–1935), politician and activist for good roads, called Father of Good Roads
• Hannah Teter (* 1987), snowboarder

Personalities who have worked on site

• John Mcclure (1929–2014), sound engineer and producer

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . 3rd volume. Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. 123 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• HP Smith: History of Rutland County, Vermont, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers . D. Mason & co., Syracuse, NY 1886, pp. 673 f . ( archive.org ).

Web links

Commons : Mount Holly, 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 July 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mount Holly in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed January 17, 2017
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Okemo Mountain . In: peakery.com . ( peakery.com ).
4. ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
5. ↑ Mount Holly, Vermont (VT 05758) profile: population, maps, real estate, averages, homes, statistics, relocation, travel, jobs, hospitals, schools, crime, moving, houses, news, sex offenders. In: city-data.com. www.city-data.com, accessed on January 17, 2017 . 
6. ^ ^{A b} Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, Natural, Civil, and Statistical . For the author, by C. Goodrich, January 1, 1842 ( books.google.de ).
7. ↑ ^{a b} Entry on VirtualVermont (English) ( Memento from July 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
8. ↑ Population 1800–2010 according to census results
9. ↑ About - Two Rivers. (No longer available online.) In: trsu.org. su.trsu.org, archived from the original on January 17, 2017 ; accessed on January 17, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
10. ↑ Mount Holly School. In: trsu.org. mhs.trsu.org, accessed January 17, 2017 . 
11. ↑ Mount Holly Town Library. In: wordpress.com. Mount Holly Town Library, accessed January 17, 2017 (American English).