Proctor (Vermont)

Proctor
Nickname : The marble capital of the world
Marble Bridge in Proctor
Location in Vermont
Proctor
Basic data
Foundation :	November 18, 1886
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Rutland County
Coordinates :	43 ° 40 ′  N , 73 ° 2 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 40 ′  N , 73 ° 2 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	1,741 (as of 2010)
Population density :	15.5 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	112.1 km 2  (approx. 43 mi 2 ) of which 112.0 km 2  (approx. 43 mi 2 ) are land
Height :	146 m
Postal code :	05765
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-57250
GNIS ID :	1462180
Website :	www.ProctorVermont.com

Proctor is a town in Rutland County of the State of Vermont in the United States with 1,741 inhabitants (census of 2010). It was created on November 18, 1886 as a spin-off from the towns of Rutland and Pittsford . The center is the Proctor settlement. There were also important marble quarries on the municipality's territory , but they have since been closed.

geography

Geographical location

Proctor is located in central Rutland Counties. Surrounded by the towns of Rutland and West Rutland and not far from Rutland City. The area of ​​the town extends in the elongated, north-south running valley of the Otter Creek , which flows centrally through the area of ​​the town in a northerly direction. There are large sites of high quality marble in Proctor. In the north of the town is the Proctor Town Forest.

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Pittsford , 1.5 miles
• East: Rutland Town , 5.7 miles
• West: West Rutland , 1.9 mi

climate

The mean average temperature in Proctor 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

Marble quarrying in Proctor around 1908

At the end of the 1830s, large quantities of high-quality marble were found in the area of ​​Town Rutland near the settlement of Sheffield Village, which were quickly opened up by several companies. However, there was no suitable means of transport. For this reason, the Bellows Falls – Burlington railway line , which was planned in 1842 and completed in 1849, was run via Rutland. Marble from Rutland quickly replaced the much more expensive marble from Carrara , which was increasingly difficult to obtain. The various small quarry companies were bought and merged in 1880 by the newly formed Vermont Marble Company under its president Redfield Proctor , a colonel of the Civil War and former governor of Vermont. Sutherland Falls was renamed Proctor two years later, after the same governor. Efforts to make the quarry and the town independent from Rutland and to form a town of its own led to success in 1886: the independent town of Proctor was formed in equal parts from areas of the towns of Rutland and Pittsford ; At the same time, West Rutland was spun off from Rutland and the central train station, today an independent city , was appointed a municipality with its own administration but without legal independence (village). To better connect the quarries to the main line in Rutland, the Vermont Marble Company founded its own railway line on September 10, 1885, the Hollister Quarry – Albertson line .

Proctor marble became a secure source of income that survived the Great Depression and the aftermath of World War II. From the 1970s onwards, the quarries became increasingly exhausted and were closed one after the other in the 1980s and 1990s. The Marble Company's railway line was also largely shut down in 1988. Today, a marble museum in the central Proctor quarry is a tourist attraction.

Religions

There are three parishes in Proctor: a Roman Catholic , a Lutheran and the Proctor Union Church . Only the Lutheran church is a wooden structure; the other two church buildings are - of course - made of marble. Like the churches, a marble bridge in the middle of the town is also a tourist attraction. The town also offers its residents a primary school and a high school as well as a public library.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Proctor, Vermont
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents										1758
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	2136	2871	2789	2596	2292	1917	2102	2095	1998	1979
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	1877	1741

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The Vermont State Route 3 runs in a north-south direction centrally through the town, from Pittsford to Rutland and follows the course of the Creek River. Also following the course of the Bellows Falls – Burlington railway runs through the town with a train station in Proctor, formerly called Sutherland Falls. The Hollister Quarry – Albertson railway connects the marble quarries with the marble processing industries in Florence, Proctor and Rutland.

Public facilities

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

education

The Proctor Elementary School is located in Proctor . About 135 children attend classes from pre-kindergarten through the 6th grade.

The Proctor Jr.-Sr. High School offers grades from 7th to 12th grade for students from Proctor and the surrounding towns of Ira, Chittenden, Mendon and Rutland.

Proctor Free Library

The Proctor Free Library was founded by Redfield Proctor in 1881 , when Proctor was still called Sutherland Falls . It was initially located in a room on the upper floor above the Monumental Shop. Redfield Proctor donated the first books and made further funds available. In 1891 the library moved into the building in which the community offices were located. In 1913, Emily Dutton Proctor, widow of Redfield Proctor, donated the current library building in memory of her daughter Arabella Proctor Holden.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Redfield Proctor junior (1879–1957), governor of Vermont
• Mortimer R. Proctor (1889–1968), governor of Vermont
• Robert Francis Joyce (1896–1990), Roman Catholic Bishop of Burlington
• Bernard Joseph Flanagan (1908–1998), Roman Catholic Bishop of Worcester
• Ralph A. Foote (1923-2003), Lieutenant Governor of Vermont

Personalities who have worked on site

• Fletcher D. Proctor (1860–1911), governor of Vermont
• Frank C. Partridge (1861–1943), politician
• Benjamin Williams (1876–1957), Lieutenant Governor of Vermont

Web links

Commons : Proctor, Vermont  - Collection of images, videos, and audio files

• City website
• Profile of the municipality on the official portal www.Vermont.gov
• Vermont Marble Museum homepage
• Entry at VirtualVermont.com (English) ( Memento from November 15, 2017 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Proctor in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey , accessed March 17, 2012
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
4. ↑ Proctor, Vermont (VT 05765) 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 24, 2017 (English). 
5. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
6. ^ Proctor Elementary School. In: rcsu.org. pes.rcsu.org, accessed January 24, 2017 . 
7. ↑ Proctor Jr./Sr. High school. In: rcsu.org. phs.rcsu.org, accessed January 24, 2017 .