West Fairlee

West Fairlee
West Fairlee Center Church
Location in Vermont
West Fairlee
Basic data
Foundation :	February 25, 1797
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Orange County
Coordinates :	43 ° 55 ′  N , 72 ° 13 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 55 ′  N , 72 ° 13 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	652 (as of 2010)
Population density :	11.1 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	59.1 km 2  (approx. 23 mi 2 ) of which 58.5 km 2  (approx. 23 mi 2 ) are land
Height :	222 m
Postal code :	05083
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-79975
GNIS ID :	1462249
Website :	westfairleevt.com

West Fairlee is a town in Orange County , Vermont , United States with a population of 652 (according to the 2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

West Fairlee is east of Orange County. There are several lakes in the town area. So is in the southern part of Middle Brook Pond and in the southeast of West Fairlee Lake Fairlee . Several rivers flow through the town in a south-easterly direction, including the Ompompanoosuc River in the south-west . The surface is hilly. The highest point is the 511 m high Spaulding Hill .

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Bradford , 4.7 mi
• East: Fairlee , 2.8 miles
• South: Thetford , 2.7 mi
• Southwest: Strafford , 9.9 mi
• West: Vershire , 7.3 miles
• Northwest: Corinth , 4.9 mi

climate

The mean mean temperature in West Fairlee 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 Fairlee on September 9, 1761 to Josiah Chauncey, Joseph Hubbard, and others. The Fairlee Grant was part of the New Hampshire Grants . It also included the area of ​​what is now the Town of West Fairlee. The settlement started in 1766, the first settler in Fairlee was John Baldwin. At West Fairlee, the first settler in 1778 was Elijah Blood. He settled in what is now known as Blood Brook. On February 2, 1797, the western part was split off and the town of West Fairlee was founded. The border between the towns runs north-south and ran through the center of the original town.

Until the opening of the Ely Copper Mine , a copper mine in the southeast of the town of Vershire, the main occupation of the residents was agriculture and timber. The town was divided into Village Canton, now known as West Fairlee Village, and West Fairlee Center in the Middle Brook Valley. After that, many miners moved to West Fairlee, the town experienced a large population growth and the population rose to over 1,000 residents. A hotel, three retail stores, a furniture store, a jewelry store, a carriage store, a blacksmith, a sawmill, a rental stable and other traders and craftsmen settled here.

The mine grew to become the largest copper mine in the United States, but went bankrupt in 1883. There were two more attempts, from 1885 to 1890 and again in 1900, to revive the mine, but they failed. After the mine was closed, the miners moved out of West Fairlee, along with many traders, and the population fell by half.

In 1909 a fire destroyed part of the village, including the hotel, several shops, the rental stall and some residential buildings. A year later, a second fire destroyed the Whitney Block , a large commercial building that housed most of the village's remaining shops. Seven years later the Eastman Block where the last shops were still burned . Little was rebuilt as the shrunken population no longer needed these shops. West Fairlee reverted to farming as an economic base.

Aloha Hive Camp

The Aloha Hive Camp on Lake Fairlee is a summer camp for girls aged 7 to 12. It is open between mid-June and late August. A variety of activities are offered. It was founded in 1915, and the buildings have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 2003 .

Population development

Census Results - Town of West Fairlee, Vermont
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	391	983	1143	841	824	696	830	833	1038	561
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	531	446	387	405	428	363	333	337	427	633
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	726	652

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Vermont State Route 113 runs through the town in a north-south direction from Vershire in the north to Thetford in the south. It follows the course of the Ompompanoosuc River. To the east, along Lake Fairlee, Vermont State Route 244 runs from Thatford to Fairlee. The White River Junction – Lennoxville railway had a stop in Fairlee.

Public facilities

There is no hospital in West Fairlee. The Gifford Medical Center in Randolph or the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Hanover are the nearest hospitals.

education

West Fairlee is part of the Rivendell Interstate School District , which includes schools in Vermont and New Hampshire , along with Vershire, Westshire, Fairlee and Orford, New Hampshire . West Fairlee is home to Westshire Elementary School , which is shared with students from Vershire. It offers classes from pre-kindergarten through fourth grade.

In Fairlee, on State Route 113, is the West Fairlee Free Public Library .

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Eben Pomeroy Colton (1829–1895), farmer and lieutenant governor of Vermont
• Tara Geraghty-Moats (* 1993), ski jumper, Nordic combined athlete and biathlete
• Albert Sands Southworth (1811–1894), photography pioneer and important portrait photographer

Personalities who have worked on site

• Stephen Thomas (1809–1903), entrepreneur, attorney, officer, and Lieutenant Governor of Vermont

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. Volume III, p 186 ( limited preview in Google Book search). (for development up to 1840)
• Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont historical Gazetteer, Volume 2 . Burlington 1870, p. 888 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

Commons : West Fairlee, 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 October 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ^ West Fairlee in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed April 16, 2017
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ^ Spaulding Hill . In: peakery.com . ( peakery.com ).
4. ↑ Index of / geo. In: census.gov. Retrieved May 18, 2019 . 
5. ↑ West Fairlee, Vermont (VT 05045) 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 16, 2017 (English). 
6. ^ History of Vermont, Natural, Civil, and Statistical . For the author, by C. Goodrich, 1842 ( books.google.de ).
7. ↑ ^{a b c} Town Plan West Fairlee 2013 , accessed April 16, 2017.
8. ↑ Population 1800–2010 according to census results
9. ^ Home - Rivendell School District. In: rivendellschool.org. Retrieved April 16, 2017 (UK English). 
10. ↑ West Shire Elementary School - Rivendell School District. In: rivendellschool.org. Retrieved April 16, 2017 (UK English). 
11. ^ West Fairlee Library. In: wordpress.com. West Fairlee Library, accessed April 16, 2017 (American English).