Readsboro

Readsboro
First Babtist Church, Readsboro
Location in Vermont
Readsboro
Basic data
Foundation :	April 24, 1770
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Bennington County
Coordinates :	42 ° 47 ′  N , 72 ° 58 ′  W Coordinates: 42 ° 47 ′  N , 72 ° 58 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	763 (as of 2010)
Population density :	8.1 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	94.5 km 2  (approx. 36 mi 2 ) of which 94.1 km 2  (approx. 36 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	498 m
Postcodes :	05350, 05352
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-58600
GNIS ID :	1462184
Website :	readsborovt.org/Home.php

Readsboro is a town in Bennington County of the state of Vermont in the United States with 763 inhabitants (according to the 2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

Readsboro is located in southeast Bennington County on the Massachusetts border in the Green Mountains . The Deerfield River flows through the city on the eastern edge of the Harriman Reservoir in the north and into the Shermann Reservoir in the south . The West Branch coming from the west flows into it . The surface is hilly and the highest point is the 948 m high Cemetery Peak .

Neighboring communities

All information as air lines between the official coordinates of the places from the 2010 census.

• North: Searsburg , 7.9 miles
• Northeast: Wilmington , 7.7 mi
• East: Whitingham , 7.1 miles
• South: Monroe, Massachusetts 1.5 mi
• West: Stamford , 7.2 mi
• Northwest: Woodford , 7.7 mi

climate

The mean mean temperature in Readsboro ranges from −7.8 ° C (18 ° Fahrenheit ) in January to 18.3 ° C (65 ° F) in July. This means that the place is around 8 ° C cooler compared to the long-term mean in the USA, but almost 2 ° C warmer than the Vermont mean. The daily sunshine duration is at the lower end of the range in the USA.

history

The present Readsboro Parish was founded on April 24, 1770 as Readesborough with a New York patent. The town was named after the owner of the patent, John Reade. The spelling of the town has varied since its inception. One spelling was Reedsborough . The town is also referred to as Reedsberry in some State Archives records . There were other patents for parts of the area and also a New Hampshire Grant in favor of Major Robert Rogers. However, the town was eventually established after the New York patent.

The West Readsboro area was renamed Heartwellville in 1852 in honor of John Hartwell, a prominent resident.

The Hoosac Tunnel and Wilmington Railroad reached Readsboro in 1885. The route was changed several times, as several dams were built in the mountains. The route was badly damaged by the New England hurricane of 1927 and then rebuilt. When another dam was to be built for the Bear Swamp Reservoir in 1971, the railway line should have been relocated again. For cost reasons, the route was not relocated and operations were discontinued in 1971.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Readsboro, Vermont
year	1700	1710	1720	1730	1740	1750	1760	1770	1780	1790
Residents										64
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	234	410	530	662	767	857	930	828	743	910
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	1139	1252	1173	1043	913	847	783	638	638	762
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	809	763

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The Vermont Route 8 performs the Northwest Town and extends in the north-south direction. It connects Readsboro with Searsburg and Stamford. From it branches off in a southeast direction from Vermont Route 100 to Whitingham.

Public facilities

Readsboro has no public facilities other than the usual municipal facilities and primary school. The closest hospital is in Bennington : Southwestern Medical Center .

education

In Readsboro belongs to the Windham Southwest Supervisory Union . Readsboro Central School is located in Readsboro and offers classes from pre-kindergarten through eighth grade.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Welcome Chapman (1805-1892), former Mormon leader

Personalities who have worked on site

• Wayne Winterrowd (1941-2010), horticultural expert and author

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. Volume III, p 148 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search). (for history up to 1840)
• Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont historical Gazetteer . 1st volume. Burlington 1867.

Web links

Commons : Readsboro, Vermont  - Collection of images, 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 May 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Readsboro in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed July 20, 2017
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Cemetery peak on Peakery.com , accessed on 20 July 2017
4. ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
5. ↑ Climate data at www.City-Data.com (English)
6. ^ Readsboro, Vermont, New England, USA. In: virtualvermont.com. Retrieved July 20, 2017 . 
7. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
8. ^ Windham Southwest Supervisory Union , accessed July 20, 2017
9. ^ Readsboro Central School. In: google.com. sites.google.com, accessed July 20, 2017 .