Roxbury (Vermont)

Roxbury
Roxbury Free Public Library
Location in Vermont
Roxbury
Basic data
Foundation :	August 6, 1781
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Washington County
Coordinates :	44 ° 4 ′  N , 72 ° 44 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 4 ′  N , 72 ° 44 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	691 (as of 2010)
Population density :	6.4 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	108.857 km 2  (approx. 42 mi 2 ) of which 108.730 km 2  (approx. 42 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	515 m
Postal code :	05669
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-60625
GNIS ID :	1462190
Website :	www.roxbury.govoffice2.com

Roxbury is a town in Washington County of the state of Vermont in the United States with 691 inhabitants (according to the 2010 census). Roxbury is the southernmost town in Washington County and one of the largest, but also one of the most sparsely populated with less than 20 inhabitants to 1 square mile (2.59 square kilometers ).

geography

Geographical location

Roxbury is located in southeast Washington County. The Third Branch White River flows through the town centrally in a southerly direction. Much of the town's area, on either side of the State Route, is covered by the Roxbury State Forrest. The highest point is the 933 m high Rice Mountain in the south of the eastern part of the Roxbury State Forrest. The Drinkwater Hill with a height of 631 m is in the northeast of the town and the 539 m high Cram Hill in the south.

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Northfield , 3.2 mi
• East: Williamstown , 13.2 mi
• Southeast: Brookfield , 10 mi
• South: Braintree 2.5 mi
• Southwest: Granville , 7.9 mi
• West: Warren , 10 mi

climate

The mean mean temperature in Roxbury is between −8.9 ° C (16 ° Fahrenheit ) in January and 25.6 ° C (78 ° Fahrenheit) in July. The snowfall between October and May is up to half a meter (19 inches ) about four times the mean snow depth in the USA. The daily sunshine duration is at the lower end of the range in the USA.

history

Making maple syrup in the Roxbury Woods

The Vermont Republic grant to Roxbury for 23,040 acres (9,323.9572 hectares) was acquired by Benjamin Emmonds and others in 1780. Roxbury was founded on August 6, 1781. The first settler in the area was Christopher Huntington in 1789, and it was entirely farming. The soil is suitable as pastureland, and in some areas arable farming can be practiced. When the town was organized in 1796, Huntington was the first town clerk. The name Roxbury was used for many of the first settlements in New England. Already in 1630 for a settlement in Massachusetts . Today a district of Boston . Why the town of Roxbury in Vermont was so named is not known. One of the first settlers was Captain Benjamin Samson. Which, it is said, rang the church bell in Lexington to warn of the approaching British troops.

The Windsor – Burlington railway reached Roxbury in 1848 and thus the pass between the valleys of the White River and the Winooski River . The Dog River flowing through the north flows into the Winooski River, while the Third Branch White River flows into the White River.

In 1860 the population grew to more than 1000 residents and decreased to 354 in 1970. The population has now risen to over 600 as a result of immigration. Most of them, however, work in the surrounding larger towns and cities.

Religions

There is a Congregational Church in Roxbury , the Union Congregational Church of Roxbury.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Roxbury, Vermont
year	1700	1710	1720	1730	1740	1750	1760	1770	1780	1790
Residents										14th
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	113	361	512	737	784	967	1060	916	938	768
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	712	615	609	594	554	465	364	354	452	575
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	576	691

Culture and sights

Parks

The Roxbury State Forest takes up a large part of the town's area. It consists of 3 sub-areas. In the east with the Rice Mountain in the south of the State Forests and the Vogt part. A deciduous forest with substantial slopes and many surface water flows. These flow southeast to the Connecticut River . The third part with Cram Hill and the surrounding hills.

A large part of the state forest was developed by the Civilian Conservation Corps . It built the access road in the Rice Mountain part with impressive culverts and 3 bridges as well as further access roads and a dam on Cram Hill. They also built a log house and they planted a lot of trees on about 800 acres (200 ha ) of land.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The area of ​​the Town Roxbury is divided in a north-south direction by State Route 12A. This follows the course of the Third Branch White River in the south and the Dog River in the north, as does the Windsor – Burlington railway line . It runs from Northfield in the north to Randolph in the south.

Public facilities

There is no hospital in Roxbury. The closest hospital is the Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin.

education

Roxbury and Northfield are part of the Washington South Supervisory Union . The Roxbury Village School is an elementary school for around 40 school children up to grade 6 in Roxbury.

The Roxbury Free Library was founded in 1923 and has been housed in a small one-room building since 1934.

graveyards

In the northern part of Roxbury Town are the five cemeteries: Roxbury Cemetery, Orcutt Cemetery, First Settler Cemetery, East Roxbury Cemetery and Batchellor-Spaulding Cemetery.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Zedekiah Silloway Stanton (1848–1921), Lieutenant Governor of Vermont

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . 3rd volume. Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842 ( limited preview in Google book search).
• Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont historical Gazetteer . 4th volume. Vermont Security Guard and State Press, Montpelier 1882.

Web links

Commons : Roxbury, 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 July 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Roxbury in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed December 25, 2015
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ^ Rice Mountain. In: peakery.com. Retrieved December 25, 2015 . 
4. ↑ Drinkwater Hill. In: peakery.com. Retrieved December 25, 2015 . 
5. ↑ Cram Hill. In: peakery.com. Retrieved December 25, 2015 . 
6. ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
7. ↑ Climate, school and employment data at www.City-Data.com (English)
8. ^ Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, Natural, Civil, and Statistical . For the author, by C. Goodrich, January 1, 1842 ( books.google.com ).
9. ^ ^{A b} History of the Town of Roxbury, Vermont. (No longer available online.) In: central-vt.com. www.central-vt.com, archived from the original on December 25, 2015 ; Retrieved December 25, 2015 . 
10. ^ Roxbury, Vermont, New England, USA. In: virtualvermont.com. Retrieved December 25, 2015 . 
11. ^ Union Congregational Church of Roxbury. (No longer available online.) In: vtcucc.org. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved December 25, 2015 . 
12. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
13. ^ Roxbury State Forest | fpr. In: vermont.gov. fpr.vermont.gov, accessed December 25, 2015 . 
14. ^ Washington South Supervisory Union , accessed June 11, 2017
15. ^ Roxbury Village School. In: edline.net. Edline, accessed December 25, 2015 . 
16. ^ Central Vermont Library Histories - Roxbury. (No longer available online.) In: central-vt.com. www.central-vt.com, archived from the original on December 26, 2015 ; Retrieved December 25, 2015 . 
17. ↑ Roxbury, Vermont (VT 05669) 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 December 25, 2015 .