St. Albans (Vermont)

St. Albans
St. Albans Town Hall
Location in Vermont
St. Albans
Basic data
Foundation :	17th August 1763
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Franklin County
Coordinates :	44 ° 49 ′  N , 73 ° 9 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 49 ′  N , 73 ° 9 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	5,999 (as of 2010)
Population density :	62.6 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	156.8 km 2  (approx. 61 mi 2 ) of which 95.9 km 2  (approx. 37 mi 2 ) are land
Height :	158 m
Postal code :	05478
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-61750
GNIS ID :	1462197
Website :	stalbanstown.com

St. Albans is a town in Franklin County of the state of Vermont in the United States with 5,999 inhabitants.

geography

Geographical location

St. Albans is located in western Franklin County, on Lake Champlain , in the Green Mountains . Several streams flow through the town and flow into Lake Champlain. There are several lakes in the town area. The landscape is slightly hilly, the highest point is the 401 m high Bellevue Hill .

Neighboring communities

All distances are given as straight lines between the official coordinates of the places from the 2010 census. The town surrounds St. Albans (City)

• Northeast: Swanton , 2.9 mi
• East: Fairfield , 15 miles
• South: Georgia , 17.4 km
• West: North Hero , 5.5 miles

climate

The average temperature in St. Albans ranges from −9.44 ° C (15 ° Fahrenheit ) in January to 20.6 ° C (69 ° Fahrenheit) in July. This means that the place is around nine degrees cooler than the long-term average in the USA. The amount of snowfall between mid-October and mid-May is more than two meters on average, about twice as high as the average amount of snowfall 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

Founded on August 7, 1763 as the New Hampshire Grant , J. Walden was the first settler to settle in St. Albans. Benning Wentworth named only two towns after saints, with St. Albans being the second town next to St. George . In Puritan New England names of places after saints were frowned upon. St. Albans was appointed in 1795 to the administrative seat ( Shire Town ) of the three years earlier established county. The abundance of forest in the area had made Vermont and the neighboring states major suppliers of wood to the thriving construction industry in the United States, leading to a large number of railroad lines crisscrossing the area. St. Albans developed into the junction of various railway lines, which earned the place the nickname Railroad City of Vermont .

On October 19, 1864, during the course of the American Civil War, the northernmost war event on land took place here, when 21 escaped southern prisoners of war attacked the city's three banks at the same time, looted US $ 208,000, spread panic and then fled across the nearby Canadian border, where they were arrested. The aim of the action was to force the northern states to protect their northern border and thereby weaken the forces in the south; A deterioration in the relations of the northern states to the neutral British colony Canada with possible consequences of the war was also hoped. The incident, in which one St. Albans resident died and another was injured, went down in the history books as the St. Albans Raid . Contrary to the original plans of the Confederate, there were no further incidents of this kind; the attack had no military consequences.

In 1902 the main settlement of St. Albans was elevated to the status of a city and remained the administrative seat of the county, the surrounding land remained the town of St. Albans.

Population development

Census Results - Town of St. Albans, Vermont
year	1700	1710	1720	1730	1740	1750	1760	1770	1780	1790
Residents										256
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	901	1609	1636	2395	2702	3567	3637	7014	7193	7771
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	1715	1617	1583	1691	1733	1908	2303	3270	3555	4606
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	5086	5999

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

In a north-south direction, Interstate 89 runs centrally through the town. Heading north from the south of Georgia to Swanton. US Highway 7 runs parallel to the interstate . In a west-east direction, Vermont State Route 36 runs centrally through the town. From Highway 7, Vermont State Route 38 branches off to the northwest and Vermont State Route 105 to the north . There is an Amtrak station in St. Albans City.

Public facilities

The Northwestern Medical Center in St. Albans City is the closest hospital for residents of the Town.

education

St. Albans Town and Fairfield are part of the Franklin Central Supervisory Union. The St. Albans Town Educational Center offers school classes from kindergarten through eighth grade.

The town does not have its own public library. The closest is the St. Albans Free Library . It goes back to a library that came from Northfield. Founded in 1855 under the name of the Vermont Central Railroad Library Association . It is based on a $ 1000 railroad bond.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Elbert S. Brigham (1877–1962), politician, member of the US House of Representatives
• Thomas Child junior (1818–1869), politician, songwriter and songwriter
• Al J. Neiburg (1902–1978), politician, member of the US House of Representatives
• Worthington Curtis Smith (1823-1894), politician, member of the US House of Representatives

Personalities who have worked on site

• Bradley Barlow (1814–1889) politician, member of the US House of Representatives
• John Smith (1789–1858) politician, member of the US House of Representatives

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . 3rd volume. Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. 156 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont historical Gazetteer . 2nd volume. Burlington 1870, p. 298 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

Commons : St. Albans (Vermont)  - Collection of images, videos, and audio files

• Homepage of the municipality (English)
• Profile of the community on the official portal www.Vermont.gov (English)
• Entry on VirtualVermont.com (English) ( Memento from September 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ St. Albans in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed May 16, 2017
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Bellevue Hill on Peakery.com , accessed on May 16, 2017
4. ↑ Index of / geo. In: census.gov. Retrieved May 18, 2019 . 
5. ↑ St. Albans on the City Daty portal , accessed on May 16, 2017
6. Jump up ↑ St. Albans on Virtual Vermont , accessed May 16, 2017
7. ^ Daniel S. Rush & E. Galle Petit, The St. Albans Raiders , Blue & Gray Educ Soc (2008)
8. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
9. ↑ Franklin Central Supervisory Unionn , accessed on May 15, 2017
10. ^ St. Albans Town Educational Center , accessed May 16, 2017
11. ↑ St. Albans Free Library , accessed May 15, 2017