Weybridge (Vermont)

Weybridge
Weybridge Town Hall
Location in Vermont
Weybridge
Basic data
Foundation :	November 3, 1761
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Addison County
Coordinates :	44 ° 2 ′  N , 73 ° 13 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 2 ′  N , 73 ° 13 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	833 (as of 2010)
Population density :	18.8 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	45.6 km 2  (approx. 18 mi 2 ) of which 44.4 km 2  (approx. 17 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	49 m
Postal code :	05753
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-83275
GNIS ID :	1462258
Website :	Townofweybridge.org

Weybridge is a town in Addison County of the state of Vermont in the United States with 833 inhabitants (according to the 2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

The village is located on the western edge of the Green Mountains in the plain around Lake Champlain and is purely agricultural. The main settlement is called Weybridge Hill . The main river of the area is the Otter Creek , which largely forms the western border of the town. The highest point is Snake Mountain with a height of 392 m.

Neighboring communities

All information as air lines between the official coordinates of the places from the 2010 census.

• North: Waltham , 1.7 mi
• Northeast: New Haven , 4.2 mi
• Southeast: Middlebury , 7 mi
• South: Cornwall , 1.6 mi
• Southwest: Bridport , 7.7 mi
• Northwest: Addison , 7.6 mi

climate

The mean mean temperature in Weybridge ranges from −7.8 ° C (18 ° Fahrenheit ) in January to 21.1 ° C (70 ° Fahrenheit) in July. This means that the place is around 10 degrees cooler than the long-term average in the USA. At more than five and a half meters, the snowfall between mid-October and mid-May is 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, from September to December it is even significantly lower.

history

The town was sold to a group of 64 interested parties on November 3, 1761 with an area of ​​25,000 acres (approximately 10,000 hectares ). During the land survey, however, it turned out that large parts of the town lay in the area of ​​the previously established and surveyed towns of Addison and Bridport. The buyers were only left with 8261 acres (about 3345 hectares) which, through various changes and a new, mutually agreed demarcation with Addison, grew to around 10,000 acres, the current area, by 1859.

The first settlers, mostly coming from Massachusetts , began to reclaim the land from 1775, but were driven out by the events of the Revolutionary War and the resulting insecurity. The town was not permanently inhabited until 1783; In 1789 the constituent city assembly took place.

In addition to the usual agriculture, the land was also used for sheep breeding, which was widespread in the whole area; in the 1840 Census, for example, 1595 cattle and 10,021 sheep (with 797 inhabitants) are documented. At no point did major industrialization occur.

With the construction of the major railway lines to the east coast and the Great Lakes to the west, only dairy farming was introduced instead of sheep breeding; there was no industrialization push now either. Instead, there was a migration to the new, large areas in the west, which were easily accessible through the railway construction. Civil War, World War I, the Great Depression, and World War II passed Weybridge without much influence; the place was, like many communities in Vermont, economically largely self-sufficient. It was only the development of neighboring Middlebury into a local economic and educational center from the mid-1960s that led to an increase in the population and a slight change in the earnings structure. Today, in addition to the still leading agricultural economy, teachers from Middlebury College and medical staff from the local hospital have become an important part of Weybridge's population.

Religions

As in almost all Vermont settlements, religion has been an integral part of settler life from the start. The first church consecration took place in 1794. The Methodists have been organized since August 20, 1843, and built their first church in 1847.

Today there is a Methodist Congregation in Weybridge , a branch of the United Church of Christ .

Incorporations

The town had been proclaimed with an area of ​​25,000 acres divided into seventy parts. When surveying the area, however, it was found that parts of the area had already been sold to the landowners of Addison and Bridport, so that Weybridge's remaining area was 8261 acres. The areas of the seventy parts have been reduced accordingly.

These area losses were partially compensated for: on October 28, 1791, 700 acres from the northwest corner of New Havens were added, on October 22, 1804 2000 acres were added from the northeast corner of Addison, east of Snake Mountain. On October 28, 1806, another 100 acres (about 40 hectares) from the southeast corner of Pantons were attached to the parish area.

A new demarcation, which was agreed between Weybridge and Addison in 1857, took the course of Otter Creek over large parts as a border between the towns; however, in November 1859, weybridge gave up another 500 acres to Addison.

This set the limits and has remained constant ever since. Today Weybridge has an area of ​​45.6 km², around 11,000 acres.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Weybridge, Vermont
year	1700	1710	1720	1730	1740	1750	1760	1770	1780	1790
Residents										175
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	502	750	714	850	797	804	667	627	608	543
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	518	494	438	418	385	402	430	618	667	749
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	824	833

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The town is crossed by Vermont State Route 23 ; High-quality roads, rail connections or airports are not available in the area.

Public facilities

Weybridge has no public facilities other than the usual municipal facilities and primary school. The closest hospital, Porter Medical Center, is in Middlebury.

education

Weybridge is part of the Addison Central School District with Bridport, Cornwall, Middlebury, Ripton, Salisbury and Shoreham.

A six-class elementary school with an attached kindergarten is available on site. To go to secondary schools, local communities, particularly Middlebury, must be approached.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Edwin James (1797–1861), botanist, geologist, military doctor, non-fiction author and Bible translator

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . 3rd volume. Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. 189 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Samuel Swift: History of Addison County . Middlebury 1859. E-books and scans on archive.org
• Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont historical Gazetteer, Volume 1 . 1st volume. Burlington 1867, p. 109 ff .
• History of Weybridge to circa 1880
  Copy from an 1886 History of Addison County, edited by HP Smith. Middlebury College website. ( Memento from August 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

Commons : Weybridge, 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 April 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Weybridge in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed October 1, 2014
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Snake Mountain on Peakery.com , accessed July 28, 2017
4. ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
5. ↑ Climate data at www.City-Data.com (English)
6. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
7. ^ Addison Central School District / Homepage. In: acsdvt.org. Retrieved July 27, 2017 (English). 
8. ↑ Weybridge / Homepage. In: acsdvt.org. Retrieved July 28, 2017 (English).