Salisbury (Vermont)

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Salisbury (Vermont)
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Basic data
Foundation : November 3, 1761
State : United States
State : Vermont
County : Addison County
Coordinates : 43 ° 56 ′  N , 73 ° 7 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 56 ′  N , 73 ° 7 ′  W
Time zone : Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents : 1,136 (as of 2010)
Population density : 15.2 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 77.7 km 2  (approx. 30 mi 2 ) of
which 74.8 km 2  (approx. 29 mi 2 ) is land
Height : 131 m
Postal code : 05769
Area code : +1 802
FIPS : 50-62575
GNIS ID : 1462200
Website : townofsalisbury.org

Salisbury is a town in Addison County of the state of Vermont in the United States with 1136 inhabitants (according to the 2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

Salisbury lies at the transition from the western foothills of the Green Mountains to the plain around Lake Champlain to the east . The most important river is the Otter Creek , which also forms the western border of the town; Several smaller watercourses flow to it from the mountains: Voters Brook, Sucker Brook, Dutton Brook and Halnon Brook are worth mentioning. The northern half of Lake Dunmore is also part of Salisbury; it is the largest lake in the parish; a reservoir, the Sucker Brook Reservoir , and a wetland, the Salsbury Swamp , are also found. The highest mountain is Mount Moosalamoo at 797 m (2615 feet ), on the northeast side of the lake. At his feet is Branbury State Park, directly on the shores of Lake Dunmore, with a campsite for summer camping.

Neighboring communities

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

climate

The mean mean temperature of Salisbury is between -8.3 ° C (17 ° Fahrenheit ) in January and 20.6 ° C (69 ° Fahrenheit) 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 up to 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, in the period September to December it is sometimes significantly lower.

history

Before the first written records by white settlers, the area of ​​today's Salisbury was at least temporarily inhabited by Indians; a cave east of Lake Dunmore was the site of arrowheads and similar remains. It remains to be seen whether this was a permanent settlement; the Green Mountains are generally only considered a hunting area or the passes as a passage to the valley of the Connecticut River with its hunting and settlement areas of the indigenous people.

The written history of Salisbury begins on November 3, 1761 with the declaration of a settlement area of ​​23,040 acres (about 93.2 km²) as part of the New Hampshire Grants to 61 buyers. As in most cases, these were primarily speculators; only one of the original buyers later settled on the purchased land; most of the parcels were sold on. The first meeting of buyers was in Salisbury , Connecticut , from where many of the settlers later came.

During the recording of the land, it turned out that due to measurement errors and - in the context of the measurement of new settlement areas, security surcharges for the settlers of surrounding land grabbing - this area was not available. Since the town of Leicester, founded a few days earlier, was to have the same area that had also been awarded to Salisbury, instead of the necessary eight miles from Brandon, the boundaries of the previously established towns of Brandon in the south and Middlebury in the north were only eight miles instead of the necessary twelve miles Were available, there were border disputes between the new settlers. It was not until April 18, 1796 that the parishes involved were able to agree on common borders. Both towns then had an area of ​​around 16,000 acres (approx. 63 km²). On October 1, 1832, however, another strip of 300 × 4500 m (60 × 900 roots ), corresponding to 1.37 km², changed from Salisbury to Ripton . Further small border changes in the next few years finally gave rise to the current shape of the town.

Initially there was little interest in settling here. It was not until 1774 that the offer was made that every buyer of a plot of land would receive an additional 200 acres of land (about 81 hectares ) that the situation changed. The first settlement began in the spring of 1774; however, the wheat farm was initially only used for the summer. In the winter months, the settlers found shelter in their home town of Arlington . Other settlers, especially from Connecticut (and there again from Salisbury), but also from Massachusetts and other towns in Vermont, especially Bennington Counties , followed.

Despite some Indian raids and the uncertainties caused by the war of independence against the British, which was taking place at the time, the number of residents of the new town grew rapidly. Early iron ore discoveries and the construction of iron works supported this development. In 1783, the first sawmill was built near Lake Dunmore and then the first dam was built to generate hydropower. In the first census of 1790, 449 residents were recorded; by 1850 the thousand mark was exceeded. A glassworks was built around 1815. Salisbury was quickly and easily integrated in terms of transport; so the stagecoach which ran between Middlebury and Rutland regularly stopped at the main settlement. In December 1849, the newly built Bellows Falls – Burlington railway line was opened with a station in Salisbury. The hoped-for economic upswing was not achieved as a result; rather, there was a persistent emigration of residents, especially to the nearby center of Middlebury, which, however, also suffered a population decline after the opening of the railway. It was not until the 1950s, when the major road links were built, that the decline in population was reversed again. The development of Lake Dunmore into a local recreation area encouraged this development, although even today the proportion of agriculture and forestry is highest in the town.

Religions

The town's churches were planted relatively late compared to other Vermont resettlements. The first congregation of the Congregational Church was not brought into being until February 8, 1804, 30 years after the town was first settled. In the same year a meeting house was built. A permanent priest was not appointed until 1811.

The Congregationalists, like the original Methodist congregation, are no longer to be found on site. Instead, there is a United Church of Christ congregation in Salisbury .

Population development

Census Results - Town of Salisbury, Vermont
year 1700 1710 1720 1730 1740 1750 1760 1770 1780 1790
Residents 446
year 1800 1810 1820 1830 1840 1850 1860 1870 1880 1890
Residents 644 709 721 907 942 1027 853 902 775 740
year 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990
Residents 692 693 635 632 581 573 575 649 881 1024
year 2000 2010 2020 2030 2040 2050 2060 2070 2080 2090
Residents 1090 1136

Culture and sights

Parks

The Banbury State Park is a recreational area on the eastern shore of Lake Dunmore at the foot of Mount Moss Alamo with 69 acres (about 0.28 square kilometers). The park belongs to both Salisbury and neighboring Brandon (from whose name the name of the park is also composed), from where it is also administered. In 2012 there were two cases of mosquito-borne encephalitis . It was the first recorded occurrence of this form of encephalitis in Vermont.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Salsibury's main route is US Route 7 , which connects the town with Middlebury in the north and Brandon in the south. A railway connection or an airfield are not available.

Public facilities

Salisbury has no public facilities other than the usual municipal offices, library and elementary school. The closest hospital, Porter Medical Center , is in Middlebury.

education

Salisbury is part of the Addison Central School District with Bridport, Cornwall, Middlebury, Ripton, Shoreham and Weybridge.

There is a six-class elementary school in Salisbury , the Salisbury Community School . Secondary schools can be found in surrounding parishes, particularly in Middlebury.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

Personalities who have worked on site

literature

Web links

Commons : Salisbury, Vermont  - collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Salisbury in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey , accessed October 1, 2014
  2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
  3. ↑ Mount Moosalamoo on Peakery.com , accessed July 28, 2017
  4. ↑ Index of / geo. In: census.gov. Retrieved May 18, 2019 .
  5. ↑ a b climate and labor market data at www.City-Data.com (English)
  6. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
  7. ↑ Branbury State Park entry on the Vermont Forestry Department's website
  8. ^ Addison Central School District / Homepage. In: acsdvt.org. Retrieved July 27, 2017 (English).
  9. ↑ List of schools in Salisbury on city-data.com (English)
Municipalities in Addison County in Vermont (USA):
City

Vergennes

County location in Vermont
towns

Addison  | Bridport  | Bristol  | Cornwall  | Ferrisburgh  | Goshen  | Granville  | Hancock  | Leicester  | Lincoln  | Middlebury  | Monkton  | New Haven  | Orwell  | Panton  | Ripton  | Salisbury  | Shoreham  | Starksboro  | Waltham  | Weybridge  | Whiting

CDPs

Bristol (CDP) | East Middlebury (CDP) | Middlebury (CDP)

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