Strafford, Vermont

Strafford
Strafford Town House
Location in Vermont
Strafford
Basic data
Foundation :	August 12, 1761
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Orange County
Coordinates :	43 ° 52 ′  N , 72 ° 22 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 52 ′  N , 72 ° 22 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	1,098 (as of 2010)
Population density :	9.6 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	114.8 km 2  (approx. 44 mi 2 ) of which 114.5 km 2  (approx. 44 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	409 m
Postal code :	05072
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-70675
GNIS ID :	1462220
Website :	straffordvt.org

Strafford is a town in Orange County , Vermont , United States with 1,098 inhabitants (2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

Strafford is in the south of Orange County. The largest lake in the town's area is Miller Pond in the northeast . The Ompompanoosuc River with its tributaries flows through the town in a southeastern direction. The surface is hilly, with no higher mountains. The highest point is the 575 m high in the southwest near the Kibling Hill Wildlife Management Area located Kibling Hill . Strafford is located in central Vermont on a plateau of the Green Mountains , the so-called Upper Valley .

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Vershire , 3 miles
• Northeast: West Fairlee , 9.9 mi
• East: Thetford , 7.9 miles
• Southeast: Norwich , 3.3 mi
• South: Sharon , 5.3 mi
• Southwest: Royalton , 13.2 mi
• West: Tunbridge , 8.5 miles
• Northwest: Chelsea , 9.6 miles

climate

The mean mean temperature in Strafford is between −9.44 ° C (15 ° Fahrenheit ) in January and 18.3 ° C (65 ° 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

Benning Wentworth awarded the Grant for Strafford on August 12, 1761 to Solomon Phelps and 63 others. He named the town after the Earls of Strafford, a title held by the Wentworth family since 1640. The settlement started shortly before the American Revolutionary War .

The first settlers arrived in Strafford around 1767. Nine households were in the town in 1771, and more settlers from Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Connecticut moved in, bringing the total to 64 households by 1780.

On March 18, 1779, the town's first meeting took place. Many of the first settlers were loyalists . They had to leave their estates and their possessions were confiscated.

The Strafford Meeting House was established in 1799 as a place for the town's administrative functions and for a short time as a meeting room for several religious communities. The town's gatherings have been held in the building since 1801. It is one of Vermont's oldest meeting houses and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Strafford Village Historic District .

It was built in the Upper Village . Nearby were an inn, a tavern and a shop, a blacksmith, a carding mill and a tannery. At the beginning of the 19th century, Strafford flourished with copper mining and, with 1935 inhabitants, was the highest population in the 1930 Census, and a new post office was opened in South Strafford . The Newton School building was constructed in 1932.

The Hurricane Irene in 2011, taught at major damage in Vermont. These were the worst floods after the New England Hurricane of 1927. Thirteen towns in Vermont were cut off from the outside world by the hurricane, and Strafford was one of those towns that was particularly hard hit.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Strafford, Vermont
year	1700	1710	1720	1730	1740	1750	1760	1770	1780	1790
Residents										845
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	1642	1805	1921	1935	1761	1540	1506	1290	1181	932
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	1000	776	601	615	598	680	548	536	731	902
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	1045	1098

Culture and sights

Parks

In addition to the Kibling Hill Management Area in the west of the town, in the vicinity of which the highest point of the town, the Kibling Hill , is located, the Podunk Wildlife Management Area is in the northeast and the Clover Hill Wildlife Management Area in the southwest .

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Vermont State Route 132 runs through the town in the southeast from Sharon in the west to Thetford in the east. Other small streets run through the town. There is no connection to the railroad. The nearest Amtrak station is at Randolph or White River Junction .

Public facilities

There is no hospital in Strafford. The Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Hanover , New Hampshire, is the nearest hospital.

education

Strafford Library about 1899

Strafford is part of the White River Valley Supervisory Union . The Newton School is located in Strafford, with classes from kindergarten through sixth grade. Older students attend Thetford Academy in Thetford.

The Morrill Memorial & Harris Library was founded by his sister-in-law in 1929 in memory of Senator Justin Morrill and his son. It is based on Morrill's personal collection of paintings and around 2000 books. Jedediah Harris had previously founded the Harris Library through his estate in 1855 , the first public library in Strafford.

Elizabeth Mine

Elizabeth Mine

The Elizabeth Mine was a copper mine in the southeast of Strafford, on the border with Town Thetford. Copper and copper ore were found as early as 1793 . Mining by the Elizabeth Mine Company and the Vermont Mineral Company started in 1809 and lasted until 1958. President James Monroe toured the copper mine in 1817. During its greatest phase, it was the largest mine in New England . It is now a historical industrial monument, as one of the oldest mines in which large-scale construction was carried out in Vermont, and copper was smelted as early as the 1830s.

Due to the acid released from the mine drainage, the western tributary of the Ompompanoosuc River was heavily polluted. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources developed an environmental protection plan in 2000.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Justin Smith Morrill (1810–1898), politician, member of the US House of Representatives

Personalities who have worked on site

• William Sloane Coffin (1924-2006), pastor and peace activist

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. Volume III, p 166 ( limited preview in Google Book search). (for development up to 1840)
• Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont historical Gazetteer, Volume 2 . Burlington 1870, p. 1067 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

Commons : Strafford, 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 May 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Strafford in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed April 8, 2017
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Kibling Hill . In: peakery.com . ( peakery.com ).
4. ↑ Index of / geo. In: census.gov. Retrieved May 18, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Strafford, Vermont (VT 05072) 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 8, 2017 (English). 
6. ^ ^{A b} History of Vermont, Natural, Civil, and Statistical . For the author, by C. Goodrich, January 1, 1842 ( books.google.de ).
7. ↑ ^{a b c} town-of-strafford. In: straffordvt.org. town-of-strafford, accessed April 8, 2017 . 
8. ↑ town-of-strafford. In: straffordvt.org. town-of-strafford, accessed April 8, 2017 . 
9. ↑ Hurricane Cost Seen as Ranking Among Top Ten . In: The New York Times . August 30, 2011 ( nytimes.com ).
10. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
11. ↑ Podunk Wildlife Management Area | fpr. In: vermont.gov. fpr.vermont.gov, accessed April 8, 2017 . 
12. ↑ Clover Hill Wildlife Management Area (PDF) ( September 19, 2015 memento in the Internet Archive ) accessed April 8, 2017
13. ^ White River Valley Supervisory Union | Vermont. In: wrvsu.org. Retrieved March 24, 2017 (American English). 
14. ↑ town-of-strafford. In: straffordvt.org. town-of-strafford, accessed April 8, 2017 . 
15. ^ Morrill Memorial & Harris Library. In: straffordlibrary.org. Retrieved April 8, 2017 . 
16. ↑ Elizabeth Mine Re-Use Plan , accessed April 8, 2017