Plymouth (Vermont)

Plymouth
The general store of the place
Location in Vermont
Plymouth
Basic data
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Windsor County
Coordinates :	43 ° 30 ′  N , 72 ° 42 ′  W 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
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
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

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

• 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

1. ↑ Plymouth in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey , accessed 1 October 2014
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
4. ↑ Climate data at www.City-Data.com (English)
5. ↑ List of NHL by State . In: nps.gov, March 22, 2019.
6. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
7. ^ Two Rivers Supervisory Union , accessed June 11, 2017