Shrewsbury (Vermont)

Shrewsbury
Laurel Hall in Shrewsbury
Location in Vermont
Shrewsbury
Basic data
Foundation :	September 4, 1761
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Rutland County
Coordinates :	43 ° 32 ′  N , 72 ° 51 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 32 ′  N , 72 ° 51 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	1,056 (as of 2010)
Population density :	8.1 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	130.0 km 2  (approx. 50 mi 2 ) of which 129.6 km 2  (approx. 50 mi 2 ) are land
Height :	537 m
Postal code :	05738
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-65275
GNIS ID :	1462210
Website :	shrewsburyvt.org

Shrewsbury is a town in Rutland County of the state of Vermont in the United States with 1,056 inhabitants (according to the 2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

Shrewsbury is centrally located in eastern Rutland County, in the Green Mountains . The Mill River flows in a north-westerly direction through the south-west of the town and the Cold River , both tributaries of the Otter Creek in the north-east, also in a north-westerly direction. The Spring Lake in the south-west is the largest lake in the area of ​​the town and the highest point is the 1122 m high Shrewsbury Peak, one of the highest points in the Green Mountains, which is located in the Coolidge State Forest in the north of the town.

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Mendon , 3.9 miles
• East: Plymouth , 17.4 km
• Southeast: Mount Holly , 4.2 mi
• Southwest: Wallingford , 6.5 mi
• West: Clarendon , 14.3 km
• Northwest: West Rutland , 7 mi

City structure

In Shrewsbury there is next to the Village Cuttingsville in the southwest of the town, the Hamlets Shrewsbury in the center and North Shrewsbury in the east.

climate

The mean average temperature in Shrewsbury ranges from −7.2 ° C (19 ° Fahrenheit ) in January to 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

Shrewsbury was founded on September 4, 1761 as a Grant by Benning Wentworth . Samuel Ashley and 63 other settlers received the grant, but only one of them settled in the town. The town was not organized until 1781. The economic basis of the first settlers was the fertile, slightly loamy soil. Grass, wheat, oats and potatoes grow on it. A large dairy producing Shrewsbury butter was also known for its quality. Wood was an export item along with beech, birch, maple, hemlock and spruce.

Through the connection of Cuttingsville, a village in the town of Shrewsbury, to the Central Vermont Railroad, the town experienced an economic boom. In Cuttingsville there was a church, a hotel, two stores, a grain mill and sawmill, two blacksmiths, a belt shop, a shoe shop, and a tailor shop.

In the southern part of the Green Mountains, copper was found on Copperas Hill. The copper was dismantled by the Green Mountain Manufacturing Co. About 30 people were employed here. The mine is abandoned, even if there are still large amounts of copper here. The rare mineral pigeonite is also found in Shrewsbury.

Laurel Glen Mausoleum

The listed property Laurel Hall with the Laurel Glen Cemetery and the Laurel Glen Mausoleum was built by John P. Bowman from Clarendon in Shrewsbury. Bowman, a businessman who had built a tannery and leather goods factory, married Jennie E. Gates in 1849. The couple had two daughters, one of whom died when she was four months old. Bowman was an MP for Shrewsbury in the Vermont House of Representatives in 1851 . In 1852 he moved to Stony Creek, New York, where he bought a tannery. His second daughter Ella died in 1879 at the age of 19 and his wife Jennie died a year later. Bowman moved back to Cuttingsville, bought land there and built Laurel Hall, the Laurel Glen Mausoleum and the cemetery. His wife and two daughters, and after his death he too, were buried in the mausoleum.

Religions

In Shrewsbury, the first church was built by the Universalist Church of America in 1805. In 1822 a Christian Church was founded in the north of the town . In 1840 a meeting house for 300 people was built. In Cuttingsville, a Union Church was founded in 1842 by the Congregational Church and the Baptists .

Population development

Census Results - Town of Shrewsbury, Vermont
year	1700	1710	1720	1730	1740	1750	1760	1770	1780	1790
Residents										383
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	748	990	1148	1289	1218	1268	1175	1145	1235	974
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	935	751	620	540	537	464	445	570	866	1107
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	1108	1056

Culture and sights

Parks

The Calvin Coolidge State Forest was established in 1925 in the area of ​​the town of Plymouth. It comprises 22,564 acres (9131.3 hectares ) and extends over the towns of Killington, Mendon and Shrewsbury in Rutland Counties and Bridgewater, Plymouth, Reading and Woodstock in Windsor Counties. It is located in the northwest of Shrewsbury and stretches over the Green Mountains to Plymouth. It was named after the Plymouth-born President Calvin Coolidge . Camp Calvin Coolidge in the State Forest was established in 1933 by the Civilian Conservation Corps called CCC, as the third camp of the CCC. The CCC also laid out many of the forest roads and carried out extensive reforestation projects after the New England Flood in 1927.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The Vermont State Route 103 runs north through the south-west of the town, from Mount Holly to Clarendon, along the Creek River, and the Bellows Falls – Burlington railway line with a stop in the Village of Cuttingsville in the area of ​​the Town of Shrewsbury.

Public facilities

Shrewsbury does not have its own hospital. The closest hospital is the Rutland Regional Medical Center in Rutland.

education

Shrewsbury is part of the Mill River Union Unified School District . This includes the towns of Clarendon, Shrewsbury, Tinmouth and Wallingford. In Shrewsbury is the Shrewsbury Mountain School with about 80 students.

The Shrewsbury Library is located in the Cuttingsville Vermont Schoolhouse on Main Street.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Darwin Abel Finney (1814–1868), politician

Personalities who have worked on site

• Jim Jeffords (1934-2014), politician

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . 3rd volume. Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. 162 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• HP Smith: History of Rutland County, Vermont, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers . D. Mason & co., Syracuse, NY 1886, pp. 802 f . ( archive.org ).

Web links

Commons : Shrewsbury, 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. ^ Shrewsbury in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed January 28, 2017
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Shrewsbury Peak . In: peakery.com . ( peakery.com ).
4. ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
5. ↑ ^{a b c d} SHREWSBURY HISTORICAL SOCIETY - Panoramas & Maps. In: shrewsburyhistoricalsociety.com. Retrieved January 30, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Shrewsbury, Vermont (VT 05738) 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 30, 2017 (English). 
7. ↑ John p. Bowman - Laurel Hall and Laurel Glen Cemetery. In: shrewsburyhistoricalsociety.com. Retrieved January 30, 2017 . 
8. ^ History of Rutland County, Vermont, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. In: archive.org. Retrieved January 30, 2017 . 
9. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
10. ^ Coolidge State Forest, East | fpr. In: vermont.gov. fpr.vermont.gov, accessed January 30, 2017 . 
11. ↑ Shrewsbury Mountain | To build a foundation for lifelong learning in a global world. In: millriverschools.org. Retrieved January 30, 2017 (American English). 
12. ↑ LIBRARY | Welcome to the Town of Shrewsbury, Vermont. In: shrewsburyvt.org. Retrieved January 30, 2017 (American English).