Pomfret (Vermont)

Pomfret
Abbott Memorial Library in South Pomfret
Location in Vermont
Pomfret
Basic data
Foundation :	July 8, 1761
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Windsor County
Coordinates :	43 ° 42 ′  N , 72 ° 31 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 42 ′  N , 72 ° 31 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	904 (as of 2010)
Population density :	8.9 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	102.2 km 2  (approx. 39 mi 2 ) of which 102.0 km 2  (approx. 39 mi 2 ) are land
Height :	457 m
Postcodes :	05053, 05067
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-56350
GNIS ID :	1462177
Website :	pomfretvt.us

Pomfret is a town in Windsor County , Vermont , United States with 904 residents (2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

Pomfret is in northeast Windsor County. The terrain is hilly, but without large mountains. In the northeast the White River and in the southeast the Ottauquechee River graze the area of ​​the town. Following the course of the White River, Interstate 89 and the course of the Ottaugechee River touch US Highway 4 . The Mill Brook with its tributaries drains the north of the town into the White River and the Barnard Brook and other small rivers drain the southern area into the Ottaugechee River. To the northwest is the Amity Pond Natural Area State Park. Pomfret is located in Zentralvermont 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: Sharon , 9.0 km
• Northeast: Norwich , 13.1 mi
• East: Hartford , 14 miles
• Southeast: Hartland , 9.0 km
• South: Woodstock , 3.4 mi
• Southwest: Bridgewater , 12 mi
• West: Barnard , 8.5 miles
• Northwest: Royalton , 4.2 mi

City structure

The settlement areas of the town are the settlements of North Pomfret, South Pomfret and Millbrook.

climate

The mean mean temperature in Pomfret is between −8.3 ° C (17  ° F ) in January and 20.0 ° C (68 ° F) in July. This makes the place about 2 degrees cooler compared to the long-term mean of Vermont. The snowfall between October and May is well over two meters (with a peak in January of almost 50 cm) about twice as high as the mean snow depth in the USA. The daily sunshine duration is at the lower end of the range in the USA.

history

Pomfret was founded on July 8, 1761 as a New Hampshire Grant . Benning Wentworth's grant went to Isaac Dana and 76 others. The town of Wentworth was named either after Thomas Fermor, Earl of Pomfret , with whom he was married, or after the town of Pomfret, Connecticut, from which most of the first settlers came. The town's first meeting also took place there on July 23, 1761. The first settlers settled in Pomfret from 1769, after the land had previously been divided among the beneficiaries of the Grant. The allocation was made through a raffle for the lots.

In 1976, John Paul II , then still a cardinal, visited his long-time friend Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka in Pomfret, who lived there with her family.

Religions

A first meeting house was built on the Chandler family farm as early as 1774, and the first priest, Reverend Aaron Hutchinson, was hired in 1780. A congregation of the Congregational Church was founded in 1783. Other religious communities were added later. Baptists , Methodists and other Christian communities.

Today there is a United Church of Christ parish in North Pomfret .

Population development

Census Results - Town of Pomfret, Vermont
year	1700	1710	1720	1730	1740	1750	1760	1770	1780	1790
Residents										710
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	1106	1433	1635	1867	1774	1546	1376	1251	1139	865
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	777	703	732	728	686	586	600	620	856	874
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	997	904

Culture and sights

Parks

In the northwest of the town is the Amity Pond Natural Area State Park. The 73.65 hectare (182 acre ) park was donated to the State of Vermont in 1969 by Richard and Elizabeth Brett. In 1983 it was converted to a State Natural Area. Several hiking trails lead through the area.

Economy and Infrastructure

Public facilities

The Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Hanover is the closest hospital for Pomfret.

The Abott Memorial Library in South Pomfret was donated to the town in 1903 by the Abott family. This donation included the land and an amount of money that could be used to build the library. The library was opened in 1905.

There are 3 cemeteries in Pomfret: Hewittville Cemetery, Bunker Hill Cemetery and Burns Cemetery.

education

There was a first school in Pomfret in 1786 and Betty Sessions was stopped as a teacher. The first school was built in the northern part of the town. After the population grew, more schools were built. The town was divided into two school districts and each took care of the costs independently.

In March 2015, the Pomfret Elementary School merged with the Bridgewater Village School . The new school is called The Prosper Valley School and is located in Pomfret. She has classes from pre-kindergarten through sixth grade. Pomfret is part of the Windsor Central Supervisory Union . High school students attend Woodstock Union Middle School and High School . The nearest colleges are in Hanover, New Hampshire , Norwich and Middlebury , the nearest university in Plymouth, New Hampshire .

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Judah Dana (1772–1845), politician
• Luke Johnson (1807–1861), a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
• Lyman E. Johnson (1811–1859), member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
• Rush Hawkins (1831–1920), lawyer and general in the Civil War
• Elmer Bragg Adams (1842-1916), federal judge

literature

• Henry Hobart Vail: Pomfret Vermont . tape 1 . Cockayne, Boston 1930 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Pomfret, 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 March 26, 2017 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Pomfret in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey , accessed September 20, 2016
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ ^{a b c} The History of Windsor County Vermont. In: genealogytrails.com. Retrieved September 20, 2016 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Amity Pond Natural Area State Park (PDF) accessed September 20, 2016
5. ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
6. ↑ ^{a b c d} climate, traffic and school data at www.City-Data.com (English)
7. ^ Pomfret, Vermont by Henry Hobart, Boston, 1930
8. ^ Pomfret, Vermont, New England, USA. In: virtualvermont.com. Retrieved September 20, 2016 . 
9. ^ Ed Stourton: The secret letters of Pope John Paul II . In: BBC News . February 15, 2016 ( bbc.com ).
10. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
11. ^ Abbott Memorial Library, Pomfret, Vermont - Home Page. In: abbottmemoriallibrary.org. Retrieved September 20, 2016 . 
12. ^ Schools - Bridgewater, Vermont. In: vt.gov. Retrieved September 20, 2016 . 
13. ^ The Prosper Valley School. In: google.com. sites.google.com, accessed September 20, 2016 .