Wardsboro

Wardsboro
Wardsboro Town Hall
Location in Vermont
Wardsboro
Basic data
Foundation :	November 7, 1780
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Windham County
Coordinates :	43 ° 2 ′  N , 72 ° 49 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 2 ′  N , 72 ° 49 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	900 (as of 2010)
Population density :	11.9 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	75.8 km 2  (approx. 29 mi 2 ) of which 75.8 km 2  (approx. 29 mi 2 ) are land
Height :	231 m
Postal code :	05355
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-76225
GNIS ID :	146224
Website :	www.wardsborovermont.com/home.html

Wardsboro is a town in Windham County , Vermont , United States with 900 inhabitants (2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

Wardsboro is centrally located in Windham County. The Wardsboro Brook with some backwaters flows through the town northwards and flows into the West River in Jamaica . State Route 100 follows its course and leads from Wilmington through the Mount Snow ski area north to Jamaica. To the west of the town is the Wardsboro Town Forrest. The highest point is the 646 m high Mundal Hill in the northwest. The Brattleboro – South Londonderry railway runs through Wardsboro.

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Jamaica , 2.8 km
• Northeast: Townshend , 9.2 miles
• Southeast: Newfane , 7.7 mi
• South: Dover , 2.5 mi
• West: Stratton , 7.3 mi

climate

The mean mean temperature in Townshend is between −8 ° C (16 ° Fahrenheit ) in January and 18.3 ° C (65 ° Fahrenheit) in July. The snowfall between October and May is up to half a meter (17 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

Old Methodist Church, built 1832

Wardsborough was settled from around 1779. It was founded on November 7, 1780 by Benning Wentworth as part of the New Hampshire Grant . The grant was acquired by William Ward from Newfane, along with 62 others. The town was named after William Ward Wardsborough. In 1788 the town was divided into a north and a south part. The southern part became an independent town in 1810 as Dover. A few mills were established on the banks of Wardsboro Brooks in the 19th century. In 1859 there were three gristmills, six sawmills, a tannery and a whip factory.

During the Civil War , Wardsborough Center was named Unionville because the residents felt they belonged to the United States . The ending ugh was deleted by the US Post Office in 1894. Any name that ended in borough became boro . So Wardsborough became Wardsboro.

Wardsboro was badly damaged by the floods of Hurricane Irene in 2011.

The Gilfeather Turnip was declared a Vermont state vegetable in 2016.

Religions

Just under 69% of the residents of Townshend do not belong to any religious community, around 20% are Catholic and around 10% are Protestants.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Wardsboro, Vermont
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	1484	1159	1016	1148	1102	1125	1004	866	766	704
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	637	559	380	355	401	377	322	391	505	654
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	854	900

Culture and sights

Culinary specialties

The Gilfeather Turnip , a turnip grown in Wardsboro, was declared a Vermont state vegetable in 2016.

The Gilfeather Turnip is an hybrid plug and turnip . It was bred in Wardsboro by John Gilfeather and first mentioned in 1902. Their flesh is white, not yellow like other beets. It is harvested after the first severe frost.

Public facilities

The Grace Cottage Hospital in Townshend is the hospital for the region. It was founded in 1949.

education

Wardsboro is home to the Wardsboro Elementary School with classes from pre-kindergarten through 6th grade.

Wardsboro is part of the Windham Central Supervisory Union. Students in grades 7 through 12 can attend Leland and Gray Union Middle and High School in Townshend. Founded in 1833 as the Leland Classical and English School and named after Aaron Leland , it is one of the oldest schools in Vermont.

The Windham Regional Career Center in Brattleboro is also available for students in grades 11 and 12 .

One public library, the Wardsboro Public Library, is located on Main Street in Wardsboro. The building is provided by the Friends of the Wardsboro Library .

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Herbert G. Barber (1870–1947), politician, Vermont Attorney General
• Clarke C. Fitts (1870-1916), Politician, Vermont Attorney General
• Abner Hazeltine (1793–1879), politician

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . 3rd volume. Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. 199 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont historical Gazetteer . 4th volume. Vermont Security Guard and State Press, Montpelier 1882, p. 883 ff .

Web links

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

• Homepage of Wardsboro
• Profile of the municipality on the official portal www.Vermont.gov
• Entry on VirtualVermont (English) ( Memento from March 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wardsboro in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed June 21, 2016
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Mundal Hill. In: peakery.com. Retrieved June 21, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
5. ↑ Climate, school and employment data at www.City-Data.com (English)
6. ↑ ^{a b} About Our Town. (No longer available online.) In: wardsborovermont.com. Wardsboro, Vermont 05355, archived from the original on June 21, 2016 ; accessed on June 21, 2016 . 
7. ^ Wardsboro, Windham County, Vermont. In: ancestry.com. www.rootsweb.ancestry.com, accessed June 21, 2016 . 
8. ↑ Michael Cooper: Hurricane Cost Seen as Ranking Among Top Ten . In: The New York Times . August 30, 2011, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com ).
9. ↑ ^{a b} NSTATE, LLC www.n-state.com: Vermont State Symbols and Emblems - Complete list of Vermont state symbols including the state flag and state seal from NETSTATE.COM. In: netstate.com. Retrieved June 21, 2016 . 
10. ↑ Wardsboro, Vermont (VT 05355) 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 June 21, 2016 . 
11. ↑ Population 1800–2010 according to census results
12. ↑ Patti Daniels, Jane Lindholm: Vermont Gets A State Vegetable: The Gilfeather Turnip, A Wardsboro Heirloom. In: vpr.net. digital.vpr.net, accessed June 21, 2016 . 
13. ^ Wardsboro Elementary School. In: wardsboroschool.org. Retrieved June 21, 2016 . 
14. ↑ Kevin Burke: Leland & Gray Union Middle & High School - About Us. In: lelandandgray.org. Retrieved June 21, 2016 . 
15. ↑ wardsborolibraryvt. In: wardsboropubliclibrary.org. wardsborolibraryvt, accessed June 21, 2016 .