Plymouth (Vermont)
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The general store of the place |
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Basic data | ||
State : | United States | |
State : | Vermont | |
County : | Windsor County | |
Coordinates : | 43 ° 30 ′ N , 72 ° 42 ′ W | |
Time zone : | Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 ) | |
Residents : | 619 (as of 2010) | |
Population density : | 5 inhabitants per km 2 | |
Area : | 126.1 km 2 (approx. 49 mi 2 ) of which 124.6 km 2 (approx. 48 mi 2 ) is land |
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Height : | 463 m | |
Postal code : | 05056 | |
Area code : | +1 802 | |
FIPS : | 50-56050 | |
GNIS ID : | 1462176 | |
Website : | www.plymouthvt.org | |
Coolidge's birthplace in the Calvin Coolidge Homestead District |
Plymouth is a town in Windsor County , Vermont , United States with 619 inhabitants (2010 census).
geography
Geographical location
Plymouth is located in central Vermont in the middle of the Green Mountains . Several rivers have their source in the town, including the Black River , the Ottauquechee River and the North Branch Ottauquechee River . Mount Tom rises on the northern border of the town , at the foot of which a stalactite cave was discovered in 1818. In the main settlement core, the village Plymouth Notch, lies the farm of the Coolidge family, birthplace and burial place of the 30th President of the United States, Calvin Coolidge .
Neighboring communities
All distances are given as straight lines between the official coordinates of the places from the 2010 census.
- North: Bridgewater , 2.9 mi
- Northeast: Woodstock , 11 mi
- East: Reading , 7.2 mi
- Southeast: Cavendish , 7.5 mi
- South: Ludlow , 2.3 mi
- Southwest: Mount Holly , 7.3 mi
- West: Shrewsbury , 10.4 miles
- Northwest: Mendon , 14 mi
- Northwest: Killington , 6.4 mi
Note: There is no common border between Plymouth and Woodstock. The two communities are so close to each other that it makes sense to include them in the list above.
climate
The mean mean temperature in Plymouth ranges from −14.5 ° C (6 ° Fahrenheit ) in January to 27.8 ° C (82 ° Fahrenheit) in July. This means that the place is about 3 degrees warmer than the long-term mean of Vermont in summer, while winter temperatures are close to the average. The snowfalls between October and May are up to 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 town was proclaimed on July 6, 1761 under the name Saltash by Benning Wentworth , but was not settled until 1777. The first city assembly took place around 1787; the exact date is not known. Finds of limestone and marble led to the founding of quarries around 1800, which, however, had no lasting commercial success due to the poor transport connections and were abandoned when other quarries such as the one in Rutland were opened up with railway lines. In the district of Plymouth Notch, the future President Calvin Coolidge was born in 1872 . The house where he was born and other buildings related to Coolidge form the Calvin Coolidge Homestead District , which has been a National Historic Landmark since June 1965 .
Religions
In the core of the settlement of Tyson there is a congregation of the United Church of Christ .
Population development
Census Results - Town of Plymouth, Vermont | ||||||||||
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year | 1700 | 1710 | 1720 | 1730 | 1740 | 1750 | 1760 | 1770 | 1780 | 1790 |
Residents | 106 | |||||||||
year | 1800 | 1810 | 1820 | 1830 | 1840 | 1850 | 1860 | 1870 | 1880 | 1890 |
Residents | 497 | 834 | 1112 | 1237 | 1417 | 1226 | 1252 | 1285 | 1075 | 755 |
year | 1900 | 1910 | 1920 | 1930 | 1940 | 1950 | 1960 | 1970 | 1980 | 1990 |
Residents | 646 | 482 | 449 | 331 | 432 | 348 | 308 | 283 | 405 | 440 |
year | 2000 | 2010 | 2020 | 2030 | 2040 | 2050 | 2060 | 2070 | 2080 | 2090 |
Residents | 555 | 619 |
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
The Vermont State Route 100 runs along the Coolidge State Forest in north-south direction centrally through the Town. It connects Plymouth with Killington in the north and Ludlow in the south. From Vermont Route 100, Vermont State Route 100A branches off in a northerly direction to Bridgwater.
Public facilities
There is no hospital in Plymouth. The closest is Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Hanover, New Hampshire.
education
Plymouth is part of the Two Rivers Supervisory Union with Andover, Baltimore, Cavendish, Chester, Ludlow and Mt. Holly .
Personalities
sons and daughters of the town
- Henry Moses Pollard (1836–1904), politician and representative in the US House of Representatives
- William W. Stickney (1853–1932), politician and governor of Vermont
- Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933), 30th President of the United States
literature
- Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in Three Parts . Part 3. Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. 140 f . ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Homepage of the municipality (English)
- Profile of the municipality on the official portal www.Vermont.gov
- Coolidge Farm homepage
- The Coolidge State Park on the Vermont State Parks website
- Entry on VirtualVermont (English) ( Memento from March 26, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Plymouth in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey , accessed 1 October 2014
- ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
- ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
- ↑ Climate data at www.City-Data.com (English)
- ↑ List of NHL by State . In: nps.gov, March 22, 2019.
- ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
- ^ Two Rivers Supervisory Union , accessed June 11, 2017