Norwich (Vermont)

Norwich
Panoramic view of Norwich. Left to right: Bandstand, Tracy Hall (Town Hall), Norwich Congregational Church and Marion Cross School (Elementary School).
Location in Vermont
Norwich
Basic data
Foundation :	4th July 1761
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Windsor County
Coordinates :	43 ° 47 ′  N , 72 ° 19 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 47 ′  N , 72 ° 19 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	3,414 (as of 2010)
Population density :	29.7 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	115.7 km 2  (approx. 45 mi 2 ) of which 115.1 km 2  (approx. 44 mi 2 ) are land
Height :	320 m
Postal code :	05055
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-52900
GNIS ID :	1462166
Website :	norwich.vt.us

Norwich is a settlement ( town ) in Windsor County in the US state of Vermont . In 2010, Norwich had 3,414 inhabitants.

geography

Geographical location

Norwich is on the right bank of the Connecticut River , which is the state line with New Hampshire , across from its twin city, Hanover, New Hampshire . The two city centers are connected by the Ledyard Bridge. Norwich is bordered by Thetford to the north, Sharon to the west , and Hartford to the south .

According to the United States Census Bureau , Norwich has an area of ​​116 km², of which 0.26 km² (= 0.31%) is water. In addition to the Connecticut River, two of its tributaries should be mentioned here. The Bloody Brook rises in the hills to the west of the city and drains a large part of its area; the city center of Norwich was also built at its mouth. The richer Ompompanoosuc River reaches Norwich from the northwest and flows into Connecticut at the settlement of Pompanoosuc.

The terrain is hilly and heavily forested. The peaks reach heights between 200 and 400 meters on average. In Griggs Mountain , a long ridge in the southwest of the city, the terrain rises to 519 m, the highest point in the city is Gile Mountain in the northwest of the city at 565 m . Norwich is located in central Vermont on a plateau of the Green Mountains , the so-called Upper Valley .

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Theford , 5.3 miles
• Northeast: Lyme, New Hampshire , 16 mi
• East: Hanover, New Hampshire 9 miles
• Southeast: Lebanon, New Hampshire , 6 mi
• South: Hartford , 4.9 miles
• Southwest: Pomfret , 13.1 mi
• West: Sharon , 7.7 miles
• Northwest: Strafford , 3.3 mi

climate

The mean mean temperature in Norwich is between −14.5 ° C (8 ° Fahrenheit ) in January and 27.8 ° C (82 ° Fahrenheit) in July. This makes the place about 2.5 degrees warmer than the long-term Vermont mean in the summer months, while the winter half-year is in the Vermont mean. The snowfall between October and May (with a peak of 45 cm in January) is around 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 in the USA.

history

The city's history began on July 4, 1761, when the Governor of New Hampshire granted a group of Connecticut citizens a settlement patent defining the boundaries of the city. The city got its name after Norwich , Connecticut , where the first settlers came from. In the original charter, the name was still spelled "Norwhich", but the additional h was later omitted. However, the first three settlers did not reach the country until 1763 and began to clear the forest and build the first log cabins. The present-day village of Pompanoosuc emerged from these first efforts. In the following years, other settlers settled on the site of today's town center. A first town meeting was held in April 1768. In 1770 a congregational church was founded, the first church building was built in 1778. In 1771 the city had 206 inhabitants, twenty years later 1158, and in 1830 2316 inhabitants.

1819 founded Alden Partridge , a former superintendent of West Point - Military Academy in Norwich private military academy American Literary, Scientific and Military Academy . In this training facility he hoped to be able to implement a new "American system" of education, with which he had failed at West Point and which placed a comprehensive education of his " cadets " not only in military, but also in humanistic and technical training. Nearly 500 "cadets" were trained during the six years in Norwich, but in 1825 the school moved to Middletown, Connecticut . In 1835 Partridge returned to Norwich after receiving a charter from the Vermont State Congress to establish another private college. His new military academy continued teaching until 1866 when its buildings were destroyed in a fire. It then moved to Northfield , but still exists today under the name Norwich University .

Population development

Census Results - Town of Norwich, Vermont
year	1700	1710	1720	1730	1740	1750	1760	1770	1780	1790
Residents										1158
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	1486	1812	1985	2316	2218	1978	1759	1639	1471	1304
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	1303	1252	1092	1371	1418	1532	1790	1966	2398	3093
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	3544	3414

Economy and Infrastructure

General store (left) and inn (right)

The town hall, two churches and the elementary school are in the center of the village, as is a historic inn.

traffic

In the valley of the Connecticut River runs Interstate 91 and parallel to it the US Highway 5 and a railway line of the former Boston and Maine Railroad (now the state of Vermont).

Norwich is also home to the Montshire Museum of Science and the King Arthur Flour Company , a company founded in Boston in 1790.

education

Norwich maintains one of the few interstate public school systems, the Dresden School District, shared by the cities of Norwich, Vermont and Hanover , New Hampshire .

The Marion Cross School in Norwich offers school classes from kindergarten through sixth grade.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Daniel Azro Ashley Buck (1789–1841), United States House Representative for Vermont
• Samuel Partridge (1790–1883), New York State Representative to the US House of Representatives
• Philip Hale (1854–1934), organist and music critic
• Mike Holland (* 1961), ski jumper
• Kevin Pearce (* 1987), snowboarder

Personalities who have worked on site

• Betsy Snite (1938–1984), ski racer and winner of an Olympic silver medal in 1960. Grew up in Norwich and learned to ski here.
• Walter Behrendt (1884–1945), architect. Lived here after his emigration until his death.
• Heinrich Brüning (1885–1970), German politician. After his emigration he lived and worked in Norwich, where he also died.
• Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (1888–1973), legal historian and sociologist. Emigrated from Germany in 1933 and lived and worked in Norwich until his death.
• Freya von Moltke (1911–2010), resistance fighter in the 3rd Reich. After emigrating, lived in Norwich from 1960 until her death.

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in Three Parts . Part 3. Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. 129 ff . ( Digitized version ).
• Merritt E. Goddard, Henry V. Partridge: A History of Norwich Vermont. Dartmouth Press, Hanover NH 1905, ( digitized ).

Web links

Commons : Norwich, Vermont  - collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

• The community site (English)
• Profile of the municipality on the official portal www.Vermont.gov
• Entry on VirtualVermont (English) ( Memento from March 26, 2017 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
2. ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
3. ↑ Climate data at www.City-Data.com (English)
4. ↑ Lewis Cass Aldrich, Frank R. Holmes (Ed.): History of Windsor County, Vermont. D. Mason & Co., Syracuse NY 1891, pp. 477-484, ( digitized ).
5. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
6. ↑ Patricia Harris, David Lyon: Vermont inn brews Yankee spirit, English pints . In: Boston Globe . Boston October 12, 2008 ( online ).
7. ^ Vermont Agency of Transportation, Operations Division, Rail Section website
8. ↑ Website of the Montshire Museum of Science
9. ^ David A. Anderson: King Arthur Flour Company (=  Images of America ). Arcadia Publishing, Charleston SC 2004, ISBN 0-7385-3626-1 .
10. ↑ site of King Arthur Flour Company
11. ^ School Administrative Unit 70 , accessed June 11, 2017
12. ↑ Home -. In: marioncross.org. Retrieved May 5, 2019 (American English).