Peacham

Peacham
Town Hall of Peacham
Location in Vermont
Peacham
Basic data
Foundation :	December 31, 1763
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Caledonia County
Coordinates :	44 ° 20 ′  N , 72 ° 11 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 20 ′  N , 72 ° 11 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	732 (as of 2010)
Population density :	6.1 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	123.5 km 2  (approx. 48 mi 2 ) of which 120.8 km 2  (approx. 47 mi 2 ) are land
Height :	215 m
Postal code :	05862
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-54400
GNIS ID :	1462171
Website :	peacham.net

Peacham is a town in Caledonia County of the state of Vermont in the United States with 732 inhabitants (according to the 2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

Peacham is located in southwest Caledonia County, in the Green Mountains on the Washington County border . Several smaller rivers flow through the town in a south-easterly direction. They flow into the Connecticut River . There are several lakes in the area of ​​the town, the largest being Peacham Pond in the west, Martins Pond in the center of the town and Foster Pond just north of it . The surface of the town is hilly, the highest point is the 780 m high Cow Hill .

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Danville , 9.0 km
• East: Barnet , 9.2 miles
• Southeast: Ryegate , 6.5 mi
• South: Groton , 4.5 mi
• Southwest: Marshfield , 10.2 mi
• Northwest: Cabot , 6.4 mi

climate

The mean mean temperature in Peacham is between −9.44 ° C (15 ° Fahrenheit ) in January and 20.0 ° C (68 ° 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

The Grant for Peacham was given by Benning Wentworth on December 31, 1763 as part of the New Hampshire Grants to land speculators. In 1773 the area was divided between the settlers. The settlement started in 1774. It is not clear where the name of the town comes from. The town's constituent assembly took place on March 18, 1783. The Congregational Church was founded in 1794.

The Caledonia County Grammer School , also known as the Peacham Academy , was founded in Peacham on October 27, 1795 by an act of the Vermont Legislature and opened in 1800. It was the secondary school for Caledonia County. A well-known former student was the abolitionist and Representative Thaddeus Stevens .

Congregational Church in Peacham Corner Historic District (2016)

In Peacham, a total of four buildings and sites are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (as of March 1, 2020), including the Peacham Corner Historic District .

Population development

Census Results - Town of Peacham
year	1700	1710	1720	1730	1740	1750	1760	1770	1780	1790
Residents										365
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	873	1301	1294	1351	1443	1377	1247	1141	1041	892
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	794	777	657	620	543	501	433	446	531	627
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	665	732

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The US Highway 2 runs past the town on the northern corner. Vermont State Route 232 branches off from it in a southerly direction. The Interstate 89 runs short of the Town in north-south direction of the Connecticut River .

Public facilities

There is no hospital in Peacham. The closest hospital to the town's residents is the Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin.

education

Peacham Library

In Peacham, the Peacham Elementary School offers classes from pre-kindergarten through sixth grade.

The Peacham Library was founded in 1810 by a group of students from the Caledonia County Grammar School , also known as the Peacham Academy . They called it The Peacham Juvenile Library Society . In the first 100 years of its existence there was no separate building for the library. The book collection was in a variety of shops in Villages Peacham Corner . In 1855 the library became the property of the town through Law 108 of the General Assembly. The name was in Peacham Library, Inc. changed. Today it is the last remaining library that can be traced back to this legislative initiative.

In 1909 the library got a building in Peacham Corner . This burned down in January 1959 with the books that had been purchased up to then. In 1960 a new building was built and new books were purchased through donations. Thanks to a donation from Horace Gilmore and a grant from the state of Vermont, the library was expanded significantly in 2001.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• John Blanchard (1787–1849), politician and member of the US House of Representatives
• George Brinton McClellan Harvey (1864–1928), journalist and diplomat

Personalities who have worked on site

• John Mattocks (1777–1847), governor of the State of Vermont

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . tape III . Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. 136 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont historical Gazetteer, Volume 1 . Burlington 1867.

Web links

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

• Homepage of the community
• Profile of the community on the official portal www.Vermont.gov (English)
• Entry at VirtualVermont.com (English) ( Memento from April 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Peacham in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey . Retrieved June 20, 2017
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Cow Hill on Peakery.com , accessed on June 20, 2017
4. ↑ Index of / geo. In: census.gov. Retrieved May 18, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Peacham on the City Daty portal , accessed June 20, 2017
6. ^ ^{A b c} History of Vermont, Natural, Civil, and Statistical . For the author, by C. Goodrich, 1842 ( books.google.de ).
7. ^ Peacham, Vermont, New England, USA. In: virtualvermont.com. Retrieved June 20, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Search mask database in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed March 1, 2020.
   Weekly List on the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed March 1, 2020.
9. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
10. ^ Peacham Elementary School , accessed June 20, 2017
11. ^ Peacham Library. In: peachamlibrary.org. Peacham Library, accessed June 20, 2017 (American English).