Stowe (Vermont)

Stowe
A typical New England church characterizes the town center
Location in Vermont
Stowe
Basic data
Foundation :	June 8, 1763
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Lamoille County
Coordinates :	44 ° 29 ′  N , 72 ° 43 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 29 ′  N , 72 ° 43 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	4,313 (as of 2010)
Population density :	22.9 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	188.4 km 2  (approx. 73 mi 2 ) of which 188.2 km 2  (approx. 73 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	282 m
Postal code :	05672
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-70525
GNIS ID :	1462219
Website :	www.TownOfStoweVT.org
Stowe vVillage

Stowe is a town in Lamoille County of the state of Vermont in the United States with 4,313 inhabitants (according to the 2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

Stowe is located in a spacious valley in the center of the Green Mountains and serves as a winter sports center for the ski areas in the surrounding mountains, particularly Mount Mansfield , which is 1339 m high and belongs to the local Stowe Mountain Resort .

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Morristown , 6.5 mi
• Northeast: Wolcott , 13.5 mi
• East: Hardwick , 17 miles
• South-east: Montpelier , 29.0 km
• South: Waterbury , 10 miles
• Southwest: Richmond , 14 mi
• West: Essex Junction , 19.4 mi
• Northwest: Fairfax , 30.0 km

City structure

There are three settlement centers in Stowe : The main town Stowe (formerly mostly called Central Village ), the town of Stowe Fork and the village Moscow .

climate

The mean mean temperature in Stowe is between -11.67 ° C (11 ° Fahrenheit ) in January and 16.1 ° C (61 ° 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

Today's Stowe was proclaimed for settlement and sold under the original spelling Stow on June 8, 1763 as part of the New Hampshire Grants , but was not actually settled until 1794. In March 1796 the first city assembly followed, with which the political independence of the town was confirmed. By 1801 the community had grown so much that the first community hall was built; between 1840 and 1841 three more meetinghouses of different denominations were built in the area of ​​the town.

The first doctor settled in the community in 1801. A first school was built in 1803, the first hotel in 1808 and the first tavern in 1811. From 1813 a lawyer resided in the village. The first regular postal service was established in 1816 when the postal route between Waterbury and Johnson was established and passed through the parish of Stowe; previously a post office in the mayor's office in Mill Village was operated as part of his official business. A first public library with around 150 volumes existed between 1828 and 1849; a new establishment took place in 1866; the volume of the works to be loaned was now 51 volumes.

At its inception, Stowe was part of Chittenden County , but was initially assigned to Washington County (1810) and finally Lamoille County (1835) when the counties were divided , to which it has belonged ever since.

Stowe Town Hall

The original area of ​​the town was enlarged on January 1, 1849, when the formerly independent town of Mansfield was incorporated, and on the other hand, in 1855, when the neighboring town of Sterling was dissolved and part of this area was added to Stowe. After this increase in area, Stowe was considered the largest town in Vermont.

In the American Civil War, 187 citizens of Stowes sided with the Northern States, including 14 Indians. Forty of these soldiers died: 16 in the field or from wounds, 24 fell victim to disease and suicide.

The boom in railroads built throughout Vermont from the late 1840s onwards did not reach Stowe: there were no suitable passes through the Green Mountains that would make a railroad line through the parish area seem useful. It was not until 1897 that an electric overland tram connected the town with the nearest long-distance train station, Waterbury , about 16 kilometers to the south . The railway coped with the low passenger and freight traffic on the route until it became uneconomical and shut down in 1932 as a result of the economic decline caused by the global economic crisis from 1929 and the increased volume of individual traffic.

The Great Depression also changed the hitherto predominantly agricultural face of the community: as part of the New Deal , workers from the Civilian Conservation Corps created a series of ski runs on Mount Mansfield from 1933 , the first in Vermont. The place developed into the center of a flourishing winter sports industry, which quickly included other mountain slopes. Today, Stowe is a major tourist center in Vermont. In addition to the more than 160 slopes in the area, three golf courses, a luxury hotel and a number of other tourist attractions have been created. Stowe has hosted national and international ski competitions since the 1930s. In 1981 the winter games of the 2nd Special Olympics took place here.

Trapp Family Lodge

Stowe is also home to the Trapp family (Trapp Family Lodge), which emigrated from Austria to the USA in 1938. The Trapp family became world famous in Austria in the 1930s and in the Anglican region in the 1940s and 1950s for their choral performances. Her life story has been filmed several times (including in The Sound of Music ).

Population development

Census Results - Town of Stowe, Vermont
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	316	650	957	1570	1371	1771	2046	2049	1896	1886
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	1926	1991	1800	1654	1741	1720	1901	2388	2991	3433
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	4339	4314

Culture and sights

• Trapp Family Lodge
• Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum
• Stowe Mountain Resort
• Stowe Recreation Path (5 mile walk and bike path)

Economy and Infrastructure

Stowe is connected to the North American road network via Vermont Route 100 and de Vermont Route 108 , which are both north-south connections to the neighboring towns. Morrisville-Stowe State Airport , located in the north of the town, has been offering additional connections by air since 1963.

Public facilities

There is no hospital in Cambridge. The closest hospital is Copley Hospital in Morrisville.

education

Stowe is part of the Lamoille South Supervisory Union with Elmore and Morristown. The Stowe Elementary School offers school classes from pre-kindergarten to fifth grade. In addition, the Stowe Middle School as a secondary school.

The Stowe Free Central Library was founded in 1866 with a donation of 51 books. In 1904 the library moved to the Town Hall, the Akeley Memorial Building . In 1981 she moved to the renovated former high school building. This was built in 1863.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• George Whitman Hendee (1832–1906), politician and governor of the State of Vermont
• Andrew Neel (* 1978), film director and screenwriter
• Graham Mink (* 1979), ice hockey player
• Brady Leisenring (* 1982), ice hockey player

Personalities who have worked on site

• Georg Ludwig von Trapp (1880–1947), Austrian submarine commander and father of the Trapp family
• Maria Augusta Trapp (1905–1987), Austrian singer and writer
• Maria Franziska von Trapp (1914–2014), American missionary of Austrian origin

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . tape III . Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. 166 ( limited preview in Google Book search). (for development up to 1840)

Web links

Commons : Stowe, Vermont  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

• Community website
• Profile of the municipality on the official portal www.Vermont.gov
• Entry on VirtualVermont (English) ( Memento from August 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stowe in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed July 5, 2012
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Mount Mansfield. In: peakery.com. Retrieved May 18, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Index of / geo. In: census.gov. Retrieved May 18, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Stowe, Vermont (VT 05672) 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 April 18, 2017 (English). 
6. ^ Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont: natural, civil, and statistical, in three parts . 3rd volume. George H. Salisbury, Burlington 1842, p. 166 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
7. ^ Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont Historical Gazetteer: A Magazine, Embracing a History of Each Town, Civil, Ecclesiastical, Biographical and Military . AM Hemenway, 1871, p. 695 ff . ( books.google.com ).
8. ^ Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont Historical Gazetteer: A Magazine, Embracing a History of Each Town, Civil, Ecclesiastical, Biographical and Military . AM Hemenway, 1871, p. 768 ( books.google.com ).
9. ↑ Population 1800–2010 according to census results
10. ^ Lamoille South Supervisory Union, Morristown, Stowe, and Elmore Vermont. (No longer available online.) In: lamoillesouthsu.org. Archived from the original on November 7, 2016 ; Retrieved April 18, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
11. ↑ About SES - SES. In: google.com. sites.google.com, accessed April 18, 2017 . 
12. ↑ About SMS - SMS. In: google.com. sites.google.com, accessed April 18, 2017 . 
13. ↑ Home. In: stowelibrary.org. Stowe Library, accessed April 18, 2017 .