Reading (Vermont)

Reading
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Location in Vermont
Reading
Basic data
Foundation :	June 6, 1761
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Windsor County
Coordinates :	43 ° 30 ′  N , 72 ° 36 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 30 ′  N , 72 ° 36 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	666 (as of 2010)
Population density :	6.2 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	107.9 km 2  (approx. 42 mi 2 ) of which 107.5 km 2  (approx. 42 mi 2 ) are land
Height :	570 m
Postal code :	05062
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-58375
GNIS ID :	1462183
Website :	www.readingvt.govoffice.com

Reading is a town in Windsor County , Vermont , United States with 666 residents (2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

Reading is centrally located in Windsor County, on the eastern edge of the southern Green Mountains . The highest point is the 793 m high Mount Moses. In the northeast the Mill Brook drains into the Ottauquechee River and in the southeast the North Branch Black River drains into the Black River . Vermont State Route 106 runs north to south through the eastern part of the town.

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Woodstock , 4.1 mi
• Northeast: Hartland , 11.2 miles
• East: West Windsor , 6.8 mi
• Southeast: Weathersfield , 14.1 km
• South: Cavendish , 2.1 miles
• Southwest: Ludlow , 7.5 mi
• West: Plymouth , 7.2 mi
• Northwest: Bridgewater , 6.9 mi

City structure

The Town of Reading includes the settlements of Felchville, South Reading, Hammondsville and Bailey Mills.

climate

The mean mean temperature in Reading ranges from −8.3 ° C (17  ° F ) in January to 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

Reading was founded on June 6, 1761 as a New Hampshire Grant . Benning Wentworth's grant went to 62 settlers. These and subsequently their legal successors did not have to buy the land, but there were four conditions in the grant: 5 acres (2 hectares ) of land of 50 acres (20 ha) each had to be cultivated and farmed and the settlement had to be expanded. Pine trees can not be felled, they belonged to the king and were used as masts for the Royal Navy. The settlers had to settle near the center for a place to emerge, and the fourth condition was to pay a lease of one corn cob every December 25th for 10 years . After ten years they were also obliged to pay one shilling for every 100 acres. Whoever did not follow this lost his land. These regimes lasted until the Vermont Republic was founded in 1791.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Reading, Vermont
year	1700	1710	1720	1730	1740	1750	1760	1770	1780	1790
Residents										747
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	1120	1565	1603	1409	1363	1171	1159	1012	953	749
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	649	530	463	474	437	470	472	564	647	614
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	707	666

Culture and sights

Parks

The Knapp Brook Wildlife Management Area is located in the southeast of the town. The 514.76 hectare (1272 acre ) park is owned and managed by the State of Vermont.

Economy and Infrastructure

Public facilities

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

The Reading Public Library Association was founded in 1869. The library building was donated in 1899 by Gilbert Davis, a local lawyer. Gilbert Davis wrote the two-volume history of the town some time later.

There are 10 cemeteries in Pomfret: Felchville Cemetery, Weld Cemetery, Spear Cemetery, South Reading Cemetery, Amsden Cemetery, Bailey's Mills Cemetery, Buck Cemetery, Sawyer Cemetery, Shedd Hill Cemetery, and Swain Cemetery.

education

Reading is home to the Reading Elementary School with classes from pre-kindergarten through 4th grade.

Reading 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

• Titus Brown (1786–1849), politician

literature

• Gilbert A. Davis: Centennial celebration, together with an historical sketch of Reading, Windsor County, Vermont, and its inhabitants from the first settlement of the town to 1874. AN Swain, Bellows Falls VT 1874, ( digitized ).
• Gilbert A. Davis: History of Reading. Windsor County. Vermont. Volume 2. sn, sl 1903, ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Reading, 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 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Reading 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. ↑ Mount Moses. In: peakery.com. Retrieved September 29, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
5. ↑ ^{a b} Town Plan Reading, Vermont (PDF) accessed September 29, 2016
6. ↑ ^{a b} Reading, Vermont (VT 05062) 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 September 29, 2016 . 
7. ^ Reading History - Reading, Vermont. In: govoffice.com. Retrieved September 29, 2016 . 
8. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
9. ↑ Knapp Brook Wildlife Management Area | fpr. In: vermont.gov. fpr.vermont.gov, accessed September 29, 2016 . 
10. ^ Reading, Vermont, New England, USA. In: virtualvermont.com. Retrieved September 29, 2016 . 
11. ^ The Reading Public Library. In: readinglibrary.org. Retrieved September 29, 2016 . 
12. ^ Reading Elementary School. In: google.com. sites.google.com, accessed September 29, 2016 .