Waitsfield

Waitsfield
Town Office of Waitsfield
Location in Vermont
Waitsfield
Basic data
Foundation :	February 25, 1782
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Washington County
Coordinates :	44 ° 11 ′  N , 72 ° 48 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 11 ′  N , 72 ° 48 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	1,719 (as of 2010)
Population density :	24.8 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	69.7 km 2  (approx. 27 mi 2 ) of which 69.2 km 2  (approx. 27 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	316 m
Postal code :	05673
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-75325
GNIS ID :	1462237
Website :	www.WaitsfieldVT.us

Waitsfield is a town in Washington County of the state of Vermont in the United States with 1719 inhabitants (according to the 2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

Waitsfield is in south Washington County. The area is located in the southern part of the Green Mountains and is accordingly very hilly. The largest river in the area, the Mad River , a tributary of the Winooski River , runs through the town in the west and forms the main axis for settlement and the traffic axes through the mountains. Waitsfield is predominantly agricultural, but as a tourist center it benefits from three nearby winter sports areas.

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Duxbury , 10 miles
• North-east: Montpelier , 19.5 km
• East: Northfield , 7.1 miles
• Southeast: Roxbury , 6.9 mi
• Southwest: Huntington , 13.5 mi
• West: Bristol , 14 miles
• Northwest: Fayston , 3.7 mi

climate

The mean mean temperature in Worcester is between −10 ° C (14 ° Fahrenheit ) in January and 17.8 ° C (64 ° Fahrenheit) in July. The snowfalls between October and May are up to half a meter (19.5 inches ) about twice as high as the mean snow depth in the USA. The daily sunshine duration is at the lower end of the range in the USA.

history

The area of ​​the village was not taken into account in the first major settlement campaigns that opened up the large areas on Lake Champlain to the west and along the Connecticut River to the east from around 1750 : their location in the mountains made them appear less predestined for agricultural use. The area was only designated as a settlement area after the end of the War of Independence and was sold on February 25, 1782 to a group of settlers under Benjamin Wait , who gave the new town its name. The document shows an area of ​​23,030 acres (about 92 km²); a later survey from 1788 corrected this area to 23,850 acres (about 95 km²). The first settlement took place from 1789.

The constituent assembly of the municipality was held on March 25, 1794. In September 1795 followed the election of the town's first own MP to the Vermont Senate. The number of those entitled to vote has been handed down, there were 27. From 1796 the community had grown so much that the first parish was founded; a first solid church building, still made of wood, was built in 1807. By ceding the area to the east-lying Northfield , the area of ​​the town was reduced on November 7, 1822 by about 30% to its present size.

Around 1840, the area around the village was primarily used for growing grain and potatoes. The railway construction, which opened up the area from around 1850, crossed the Green Mountains north and south of Waitsfield in a westerly direction, but did not open up the place, which lies in a north-south valley. This did not force any particular industrialization. The American Civil War, World War I, Great Depression, and World War II left no direct impact on the remote town. Waitsfield remained strictly agricultural, only the products changed. The drop in population in all rural areas of Vermont in favor of the large metropolitan areas was significant in Waitsfield, but was mitigated by the proximity of the centers of Montpelier and Barre City: the place was a good starting point for commuters. Only the construction of winter sports areas in the Mad River valley and the three eastern winter sports areas on Mount Ellen , Camels Hump and the Sugarbush Resort reversed the development of the population. Between 1960 and 2010 the population almost tripled.

Church in Waitsfield

There are three parishes in the parish (one each of the United Church of Christ , the Catholics and the Episcopals).

Population development

Census Results - Town of Waitsfield, Vermont
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	473	647	935	968	1048	1021	1005	948	938	815
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	760	709	682	723	706	661	658	837	1300	1422
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	1659	1719

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Vermont State Route 100 crosses Waitsfield in a north-south direction from Warren in the south to Moretown in the north. It follows the Mad River through the main Waitsfields valley. From it branches the Vermont State Route 17 , which begins in Waitsfield, leads to the west and connects the ski areas on Mount Ellen, reaches the plain around Lake Champlain near Bristol and finally connects the state of New York with Vermont via the Lake Champlain Bridge . from. The nearest Amtrak stops are in Waterbury and Montpelier.

Public facilities

The Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin is the closest hospital and is responsible for the care of approximately 66,000 residents in Central Vermont. It is part of the University of Vermont Health Network.

education

Waitsfield is part of the Washington West Supervisory Union . The Waitsfield Elementary School is a Elementary School with classes from pre-kindergarten to sixth grade.

The Joslin Memorial Library in Weitsfield was built in 1913 and was a donation from George A Joslin, a Waitsfield citizen who had made his fortune in the newspaper business. It is located on Main Street in Waitsfield.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Roswell G. Horr (1830–1896), American politician and representative of the State of Michigan in the US House of Representatives
• Doug Lewis (* 1964), American ski racer and television presenter
• Edmund Rice (1819–1889), American politician and representative of the state of Minnesota in the US House of Representatives
• Henry Mower Rice (1816–1894), American politician and representative of the Minnesota Territory in the US House of Representatives
• Charles W. Waterman (1861–1932), American politician and Senator from Colorado

Personalities who have worked on site

• William M. Pingry (1806–1885), politician and Vermont State Auditor
• Werner von Trapp (1915–2007), Austrian musician

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . tape 3 . Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. 178 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

Commons : Waitsfield, Vermont  - collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

• Homepage of the municipality (English)
• Profile of the community on the official portal www.Vermont.gov (English)
• Entry on VirtualVermont (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Waitsfield in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey.Retrieved June 2, 2014
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
4. ↑ Waitsfield, Vermont (VT 05673) 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 February 28, 2017 (English). 
5. ↑ Population 1800–2010 according to census results
6. ↑ About CVMC. In: cvmc.org. Central Vermont Medical Center, accessed January 2, 2016 . 
7. ↑ Home. In: wwsu.org. Retrieved February 28, 2017 (American English). 
8. ↑ Learn about our classrooms. In: waitsfieldschool.org. Retrieved February 28, 2017 . 
9. ↑ About . In: Joslin Memorial Library . July 23, 2010 ( joslinmemoriallibrary.com ).