Newbury (Vermont)

Newbury
Newbury Town Office
Location in Vermont
Newbury
Basic data
Foundation :	May 18, 1763
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Orange County
Coordinates :	44 ° 6 ′  N , 72 ° 7 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 6 ′  N , 72 ° 7 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	2,216 (as of 2010)
Population density :	13.3 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	167.1 km 2  (approx. 65 mi 2 )
Height :	236 m
Postal code :	05051
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-48175
GNIS ID :	1462158
Website :	newburyvt.org

Newbury is a town in Orange County , Vermont , United States with a population of 2,216 (according to the 2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

Newbury is in northeast Orange County, on the New Hampshire border . This is formed by the Connecticut River , the border river between Vermont and New Hampshire. The largest lake in the town is the centrally located Halls Lake . To the northwest of this are the Round Pond and the Long Pond , and northeast of the Harriman Pond . The surface is hilly, with no higher mountains. The highest point is the 416 m high Jefferson Hill .

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Ryegate , 2.2 mi
• East: Haverhill, New Hampshire , 14 mi
• South: Bradford , 3.6 miles
• Southwest: Corinth , 18.5 km
• West: Topsham , 10 mi
• Northwest: Groton , 10 mi

City structure

Town Newbury includes the Villages Newbury and Wells River . Wells River itself is better known than the town of Newbury in which it is located.

climate

The mean mean temperature in Newbury is between −9.44 ° C (15 ° 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

Benning Wentworth awarded the Grant for Newbury on March 18, 1763 to Jacob Bayley and 74 others. The Newbury Grant was part of the New Hampshire Grants . At the same time, Wentworth awarded a grant on the eastern side to Moses Hazen and others. The names of the towns were named by both of them after their former, also neighboring home towns in Massachusetts: Newbury and Haverhill. Bayley and Hazen became friends and worked together on various projects, such as the Bayley-Hazen Military Road . The settlement of Newbury started as early as 1762, the first family to settle in the town was that of Samuel Sleepner, a Quaker who later moved on to Bradford. The town was organized shortly after the settlement started.

The Vermont College of Fine Arts emerged from Newbury Seminary , a school of the Methodist and Wesleyan Churches , founded in 1831 , and Boston University was also founded in Newbury in 1839 as a Methodist seminary, the Newbury Biblical Institute .

Population development

Census Results - Town of Newbury, Vermont
year	1700	1710	1720	1730	1740	1750	1760	1770	1780	1790
Residents										873
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	1304	1363	1623	2225	2579	2984	2549	2241	2316	2080
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	2125	2035	1908	1744	1723	1667	1452	1440	1699	1985
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	1955	2216

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Interstate 91 runs through the town in a north-south direction from Ryegate in the north to Bradford in the south. To the east of the interstate, US Highway 5 also runs in a north-south direction. The US Highway 302 grazes the town in the northeast, it runs in a west-east direction from Groton to Bath in New Hampshire. The White River Junction – Lennoxville railway had a stop in Newbury.

Public facilities

There is no hospital in Newbury. The Cottage Hospital in Woodsville, New Hampshire, is the nearest hospital.

education

Tenney Memorial Library

Newbury is part of the Orange East Supervisory Union , which includes the towns of Bradford, Newbury, Corinth, Thetford and Topsham. Newbury is home to Newbury Elementary School, with classes from kindergarten through sixth grade. The Blue Mountain Union School is located in the Village Wells River. Approximately 450 students attend classes from pre-school through the 12th grade. Also from the neighboring towns of Groton and Ryegate.

The Tenney Memorial Central Library was built on what was previously the Newbury Spring Hotel, a former hotel from the mid-19th century, at Newbury's sulphurous springs. Martha Tenney was offered this land and offered the town a gift of a library in memory of her father, a farmer from Newbury. The town accepted the offer and construction of a Romanesque library building began in 1897. In the same year it was given to the town. In 2001 the library was expanded and handicapped accessible access was created.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Henry W. Keyes (1863–1938), politician, US Senator
• George W. Webber (1825–1900), politician, member of the US House of Representatives

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. Volume III, p 124 ( limited preview in Google Book search). (for development up to 1840)
• Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont historical Gazetteer, Volume 2 . Burlington 1870, p. 915 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Frederic P. Wells: History of Newbury, Vermont, from the discovery of the Coös country to present time. With genealogical records of many families . The Caledonian Company, St. Johnsbury 1902 ( archive.org ).

Web links

Commons : Newbury (town), 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 October 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Newbury in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed March 27, 2017
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Jefferson Hill . In: peakery.com . ( peakery.com ).
4. ↑ Index of / geo. In: census.gov. Retrieved May 18, 2019 . 
5. ^ ^{A b} Newbury, Vermont, New England, USA. In: virtualvermont.com. Retrieved April 2, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Newbury, Vermont (VT 05051) 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 April 2, 2017 (English). 
7. ^ History of Newbury, Vermont, from the discovery of the Coös country at present time. With genealogical records of many families. In: archive.org. Retrieved April 2, 2017 . 
8. ↑ VCFA History | VCFA. In: vcfa.edu. Retrieved April 2, 2017 . 
9. ^ Our Place in History »Undergraduate Admissions | Boston University. In: bu.edu. Retrieved April 2, 2017 . 
10. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
11. ↑ About. In: oesu.org. Orange East Supervisory Union, accessed April 2, 2017 . 
12. ^ Newbury Elementary School. In: nesvt.org. Newbury Elementary School, accessed April 2, 2017 . 
13. ^ Blue Mountain Union School - Index. In: bmuschool.org. Retrieved April 2, 2017 . 
14. ↑ About / Policies . In: Tenney Memorial Library . November 14, 2011 ( tenneymemoriallibrary.org ).