Sterling (Vermont)
Sterling was a town in Vermont , United States , that existed between 1782 and 1855. When it was founded, the town had an area of 23,040 acres (about 93.2 km²). The area is nestled in the Green Mountains and bordered to the north by Johnson , to the east by Morristown , to the south by Mansfield and to the west by Cambridge .
Sterling was declared a settlement on February 25, 1782 and settled from around 1799. More precise details are no longer passed down. The constituent city assembly took place on March 1, 1806.
At no point in its existence did the community have a capital, a mill or a post office; there was no parish and no regular mail connection. It was always sparsely populated and because of the poorly fertile soil, agriculture was hardly profitable. For 1840 193 inhabitants are recorded; the main agricultural products were potatoes and sheep.
Since the administrative burden was considered too great for the few residents, they decided to downsize the town. On October 30, 1828, the western part of the town, a strip of 2 miles (about 3.5 kilometers) wide, was given to the neighbor Cambridge. In another vote in 1855, the dissolution of the town on November 14, 1855 was resolved with 40 to 10 votes. The site was added to the surrounding towns of Johnson, Morristown and Stowe , and the administrative files were handed over to the Morristown City Archives.
Individual evidence
- ^ Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont: natural, civil, and statistical, in three parts . 3rd volume. George H. Salisbury, Burlington 1842, p. 43 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ^ Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont Historical Gazetteer: A Magazine, Embracing a History of Each Town, Civil, Ecclesiastical, Biographical and Military . AM Hemenway, 1871, p. 693 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).