Vershire

Vershire
Vershire Community Library
Location in Vermont
Vershire
Basic data
Foundation :	August 3, 1781
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Orange County
Coordinates :	43 ° 57 ′  N , 72 ° 20 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 57 ′  N , 72 ° 20 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	730 (as of 2010)
Population density :	7.7 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	94.6 km 2  (approx. 37 mi 2 ) of which 94.5 km 2  (approx. 36 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	491 m
Postal code :	05079
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-74950
GNIS ID :	1462235
Website :	vershare.org

Vershire is a town in Orange County , Vermont , United States with 730 inhabitants (according to the 2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

Vershire is centrally located in Orange County. There are only a few small lakes in the town area, such as Whitehouse Pound to the northwest. The Ompompanoosuc River with its tributaries flows through the town in a southeastern direction, it flows into the Connecticut River . The surface is hilly. The highest point is Colton Hill, 727 m high in the southwest . Vershire 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: Corinth , 5.7 km
• Northeast: Bradford , 11.8 mi
• East: West Fairlee , 7.3 mi
• South: Strafford , 3 miles
• Southwest: Tunbridge , 11 mi
• West: Chelsea , 7.1 miles
• Northwest: Washington , 7.1 mi

climate

The mean mean temperature in Vershire 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

The Grant for Vershire was proclaimed on November 7, 1780 by the Vermont Republic . The town was previously known as number 7 . The grant was given on August 3, 1781 to Abner Seelye and 64 others, many of whom never visited the town. The first settler was Lennox Titus in 1779. The name changed frequently. First known as number 7 , the town was called Malden , then Caley , then Arlington and finally Vershire . The name Vershire is said to be composed of Ver (mont) and (New Hamp) shire . In 1878 the town was renamed Ely and in 1882 back to Vershire.

The town is rural, with farms, sawmills and grist mills. There were several copper mines in Vershire after the Civil War . In the mid-19th century, there was heavy immigration to Vershire. The Vermont Mine Company attracted large numbers of Welsh and Irish immigrants and the population rose to nearly 1900 people. In 1883 the mining company got into financial difficulties and went bankrupt in 1888. Within a few years around 1500 people left the town and in the 1960s only a little more than 200 people lived in Vershire. At that time, The Mountain School of Milton Academy was established. This independent school offers academic preparation for college on an organic farm.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Vershire, Vermont
year	1700	1710	1720	1730	1740	1750	1760	1770	1780	1790
Residents										439
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	1031	1311	1296	1260	1098	1071	1054	1140	1875	754
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	641	448	410	368	367	284	236	299	442	560
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	629	730

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Vermont State Route 113 runs through the town in a central west-east direction . There is no train station in Vershire, the closest is in Randolph.

Public facilities

There is no hospital in Vershire. The Gifford Medical Center in Randolph is the nearest hospital.

education

Vershire is part of the Rivendell Interstate School District with West Fairlee, Westshire, Fairlee and Orford, New Hampshire . There is no public school in Vershire, and students from Vershire attend Westshire Elementary School in West Fairlee. It offers school classes from kindergarten to fourth grade.

The The Mountain School of Milton Academy offers a semester program that academic high school juniors motivated offers the opportunity to live on an organic farm in rural Vermont and work. Founded in 1963 as a four-year boarding school by Mac and Doris Conard, it was unique in its combination of a college preparatory course and ecology-oriented practical farm experience.

The Vershire Community Library is located in Church-Orr House . The Church-Orr House was built around 1830. It was a carriage house on a stagecoach route from Boston to Montreal. It was donated to the town in 1998 by Theo Howe. After renovation, the Made-in-Vershire Shop and the Stagecoach Stop Hostel are located next to the library .

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. Volume III, p 177 ( limited preview in Google Book search). (for development up to 1840)
• Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont historical Gazetteer, Volume 2 . Burlington 1870, p. 1131 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

Commons : Vershire, Vermont  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage of the community
• Profile of the municipality on the official portal www.Vermont.gov
• Entry on VirtualVermont (English) ( Memento from October 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Vershire in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey , accessed April 14, 2017
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ^ Colton Hill . In: peakery.com . ( peakery.com ).
4. ↑ Index of / geo. In: census.gov. Retrieved May 18, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Vershire, Vermont (VT 05079) 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 14, 2017 (English). 
6. ^ The Vermont Historical Gazetteer: A Magazine, Embracing a History of Each Town, Civil, Ecclesiastical, Biographical and Military . Miss AM Hemenway, January 1, 1871 ( books.google.de ).
7. ↑ ^{a b} Vershire, Vermont. In: uppervalleynhvt.com. Retrieved April 14, 2017 (American English). 
8. ^ Vershire, Vermont, New England, USA. In: virtualvermont.com. Retrieved April 14, 2017 . 
9. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
10. ^ Home - Rivendell School District. In: rivendellschool.org. Retrieved April 14, 2017 (UK English). 
11. ↑ West Shire Elementary School - Rivendell School District. In: rivendellschool.org. Retrieved April 14, 2017 (UK English). 
12. ^ School History. In: mountainschool.org. The Mountain School, accessed April 14, 2017 (American English). 
13. ↑ VerShare - Church-Orr House. In: vershare.org. Retrieved April 14, 2017 .