Pittsford (Vermont)

Pittsford
Pittsford Town Hall
Location in Vermont
Pittsford
Basic data
Foundation :	October 12, 1761
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Rutland County
Coordinates :	43 ° 42 ′  N , 73 ° 1 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 42 ′  N , 73 ° 1 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	2,991 (as of 2010)
Population density :	26.6 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	112.8 km 2  (approx. 44 mi 2 ) of which 112.6 km 2  (approx. 43 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	142 m
Postal code :	05763
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-55600
GNIS ID :	1462174
Website :	pittsfordvermont.com

Pittsford is a town in Rutland County of the state of Vermont in the United States with 2,991 inhabitants (according to the 2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

Pittsford is in the central north of Rutland County, in the Green Mountains . The area of ​​the town is interspersed with hills and valleys. The Otter Creek flows centrally through the area of ​​the town in a northerly direction and there are various other rivers. The river valley of the Otter Creek is very spacious and extremely fertile.

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Brandon , 2.7 mi
• East: Chittenden , 16.0 km
• Southeast: Mendon , 9.6 mi
• South: Rutland Town , 6.7 mi
• South: Proctor , 2.5 km
• South: West Rutland , 2.1 miles
• Southwest: Castleton , 8.4 mi
• West: Hubbardton , 8.3 miles
• Northwest: Sudbury , 8.9 mi

City structure

There are two villages in Pittsford, Pittsford and Florence. The marble industry is at home in Florence.

climate

The mean mean temperature in Pittsford 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

Pittsford was founded on October 12, 1761 as a Grant by Benning Wentworth . The name goes back to the first fort on Otter Creek and to William Pitt , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom . Ephraim Doolittle and 60 other settlers received the grant. Settlement began in 1769 and the early documents about the town were lost due to a fire.

Sawmills, grain mills, tanneries, blacksmiths, and schools all developed along the Creek River in Pittsford Village. The Granger family built iron foundries in Grangervill from 1795. Many of the workers in the foundries were from Ireland.

Two forts were built in Pittsford during the Revolutionary War , Fort Mott in 1777 and Fort Vengeance from 1780 to 1781. Pittsford was one of the frontline cities in the Revolutionary War.

After the war, French-Canadian farmers moved to the town in 1812. The hilly country was suitable for sheep breeding and the Spanish merino sheep was introduced. The wool industry moved in and wool mills were built. After the fall of sheep farming, the dairy industry became more important and two dairies were founded. In addition, several small marble quarries were opened in Florence at the beginning of the 19th century. More immigrants from many European and Scandinavian countries reached Florence and worked in the marble quarries for the Vermont Marble Company. From 1898 to 1902 the Florence Mill was built, with which marble blocks were sawn. The transport took place with the Clarendon and Pittsford Railroad , which belonged to the Vermont Marble Company.

Religions

In Pittsford the Methodists , Baptists, and the Congregational Church planted churches. The Baptist Congregation received its first priest in 1784 and the Congregational Church in 1785.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Pittsford, Vermont
year	1700	1710	1720	1730	1740	1750	1760	1770	1780	1790
Residents										850
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	1413	1936	1916	2005	1927	2026	1839	2127	1982	1775
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	1866	2479	2098	2332	2093	2076	2225	2306	2590	2919
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	3140	2991

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The US Highway 7 runs in a north-south direction centrally through the Town, from Brandon to Rutland and follows the course of the Creek Rivers. Also following the course of the Bellows Falls – Burlington railway runs through the town with a train station in Pittsford.

Public facilities

There is no hospital of its own in Pittsford. The closest hospital is the Rutland Regional Medical Center in Rutland.

education

Pittsford is part of the Rutland Northeast Supervisory Union with Brandon, Chittenden, Goshen Leicester, Mendon, Sudbury and Whiting .

There is a school in Pittsford called Lothrop Elementary School . About 235 children attend classes from pre-kindergarten through 6th grade. The Lothrop School was founded in 1912.

Maclure Library in Pittsford

The Maclure Library was founded in 1797. Named after William Maclure who made a large donation to the library in 1839. It was housed in different rooms and buildings until 1895, when Henry Walker had a building erected for the library in memory of his brother Stephen Walker. The library has around 100 very rare books that are not in the National Archives. These include Union and Confederate Navy records during the Civil War and correspondence from the Presidents of the United States from 1789 to 1987. The Maclure Library donated these books to the National Archives.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Caleb Hopkins (1770-1818), officer and politician
• Benjamin Gates (1873–1943), politician, Vermont State Auditor

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . 3rd volume. Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. 139 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. 726 f . ( archive.org ).

Web links

Commons : Pittsford, 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 15, 2017 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pittsford in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed January 2, 2017
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ^ History of Rutland County, Vermont, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. In: archive.org. Retrieved January 23, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
5. ↑ Pittsford, Vermont (VT 05763) 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 23, 2017 (English). 
6. ^ ^{A b c} Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, Natural, Civil, and Statistical . For the author, by C. Goodrich, 1842, p. 139 ( books.google.de ).
7. ^ ^{A b} History of Pittsford - Town of Pittsford, Vermont . In: Town of Pittsford, Vermont . ( pittsfordvermont.com ).
8. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
9. ↑ Rutland Northeast Supervisory Union ( Memento of July 28, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on July 28, 2017
10. ^ About Us - Lothrop Elementary School. In: google.com. sites.google.com, accessed January 23, 2017 . 
11. ↑ Home - Maclure Library. In: maclurelibrary.org. Maclure Library, accessed January 23, 2017 (American English).