Williamstown (Vermont)

Williamstown
Center of Williamstown
Location in Vermont
Williamstown
Basic data
Foundation :	August 9, 1781
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Orange County
Coordinates :	44 ° 7 ′  N , 72 ° 33 ′  W Coordinates: 44 ° 7 ′  N , 72 ° 33 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	3,389 (as of 2010)
Population density :	32.6 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	104.5 km 2  (approx. 40 mi 2 ) of which 104.1 km 2  (approx. 40 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	264 m
Postal code :	05679
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-84175
GNIS ID :	1462262
Website :	williamstownvt.org

Williamstown is a town in Orange County , Vermont , United States with a population of 3,389 (according to the 2010 census).

geography

Geographical location

Williamstown is located in the west of Orange County and in the center of Vermont, on the border with Washington County. In the area of ​​the town there are only several small lakes like the centrally located Limehurst Pond and south of this the Cutter Pond , the Staples Pond or the Rood Pond . These lakes are located in an area that is also called the cliff , as the slopes to the river are very steep. They are on the edge of Ainsworth State Park . The town lies between the White River and the Winooski River and there are only smaller rivers. A tributary of the Stevens Branch , which flows into the Winooski River, flows with its tributaries in a northerly direction. The surface is hilly. The highest point is Mount Pleasent, 625 m high in the west .

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Barre , 7.8 km
• Northeast: Orange , 13 miles
• East: Washington , 8.3 mi
• Southeast: Chelsea , 10 mi
• South: Brookfield , 3.6 mi
• Southwest: Roxbury , 13.2 mi
• West: Northfield , 10 mi
• Northwest: Berlin , 8.2 km

City structure

The town of Williamstown is divided into two Villages Foxville located on the border with Barre and centrally located Williamstown . There are no post offices, town offices, schools, or shops in Foxville Village. These are located in Village Williamstown.

climate

The mean mean temperature in Williamstown 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 Williamstown was proclaimed on November 6, 1780 by the Vermont Republic and on August 9, 1781 to Samuel Clark and others, a total of 75 landowners, awarded. Settlement began in 1784, and the first settlers included Elijah Paine , John Paine, John Smith, Joseph Crane and Josiah Lyman. The town's constituent assembly took place on September 4, 1787. In 1839, the town's shop burned down after a barrel of rum spontaneously exploded.

There are two derivations for the name of the town. One says that the name goes back to Judah Williams, one of the grant recipients, the other says that the name goes back to Williamstown , Massachusetts , which was named after Ephraim Williams, founder of Williams College. The second variant is usually thought to be the more likely, as many of the settlers in Williamstown were from near Williamstown, Massachusetts.

Population development

Census Results - Town of Williamstown, Vermont
year	1700	1710	1720	1730	1740	1750	1760	1770	1780	1790
Residents										146
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	839	1353	1481	1487	1620	1452	1377	1236	1038	1188
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	1610	1726	1526	1608	1477	1600	1553	1822	2284	2839
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	3225	3389

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Along the western border of the town, Interstate 89 runs in a north-south direction from Berlin in the north to Brookfield in the south. Vermont State Route 14 runs centrally along the tributary to Stevens Branch from Barre in the north to Royalton in the south. From it branches off in a westerly direction from Vermont State Route 64 to Northfield. There is no train station in Williamstown, the closest are in Montpelier Randolph or Waterbury-Stowe.

Public facilities

There is no hospital in Williamstown. The Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin is the closest hospital.

education

Williamstown is part of the Orange North Supervisory Union with Orange, Washington and Northfield . Williamstown is home to the Williamstown Elementary School with classes from kindergarten through fifth grade and Williamstown Middle / High School with classes up to twelfth grade.

The Ainsworth Public Library is on Route 14. The building was built in 1833 as the home of blacksmith Enoch Howe. The inventor of the electric motor Thomas Davenport worked as an apprentice to Howe in his forge. The library was founded in January 1801 as the Williamstown Social Library . Only the libraries in Brookfield from 1791 and Bradford from 1796 are older. In addition to the library founded and operated by men, a women's group, the Williamstown Village Improvement Society , established a Free Public Library. In 1911 Laura B. Ainsworth tried to bring these libraries together and to put them under the influence of the town. Ainsworth bought the Howe house and donated it to the town.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Burnham Martin (1811–1882), politician, Lieutenant Governor of Vermont
• Thomas Davenport (1802–1851), inventor of the electric motor
• Thomas Marshall Howe (1808–1877), politician, member of the US House of Representatives

Personalities who have worked on site

• Elijah Paine (1757–1842), lawyer, politician and US senator

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. Volume III, p 192 ( limited preview in Google Book search). (for development up to 1840)
• Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont historical Gazetteer, Volume 2 . Burlington 1870, p. 1139 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

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

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ Williamstown in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey , accessed April 17, 2017
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ↑ Vermont State Parks - Other State Park Lands. In: vtstateparks.com. Retrieved April 17, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Mount Pleasant . In: peakery.com . ( peakery.com ).
5. ↑ Index of / geo. In: census.gov. Retrieved May 18, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Town Plan Williamstown 2013 , accessed April 17, 2017.
7. ^ Williamstown, Vermont (VT 05679) profiles: 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 17, 2017 (English). 
8. ^ History of Vermont, Natural, Civil, and Statistical . For the author, by C. Goodrich, 1842 ( books.google.de ).
9. ^ Williamstown, Vermont, New England, USA. In: virtualvermont.com. Retrieved April 17, 2017 . 
10. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
11. ^ Orange North Supervisory Union . In: Edline . ( onsu.org ).
12. ^ Williamstown Elementary School . In: Edline . ( williamstownelem.org ).
13. ^ Williamstown Middle / High School . In: Edline . ( williamstownmhs.org ).
14. ^ Ainsworth Public Library. In: ainsworthpubliclibrary.org. Ainsworth Public Library, accessed April 17, 2017 (American English).