Woodstock (Vermont)

Woodstock
Downtown Woodstock
Location in Vermont
Woodstock
Basic data
Foundation :	July 10, 1761
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Windsor County
Coordinates :	43 ° 36 ′  N , 72 ° 33 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 36 ′  N , 72 ° 33 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	3,048 (as of 2010)
Population density :	26.5 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	115.6 km 2  (approx. 45 mi 2 ) of which 114.9 km 2  (approx. 44 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	349 m
Postal code :	05091
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-85975
GNIS ID :	1462272
Website :	townofwoodstock.org

Woodstock is a town in Windsor County , Vermont , United States with 3,048 inhabitants (according to the 2010 census ). It is the administrative center ( Shire Town ) of the county.

geography

Geographical location

Woodstock is east of the main ridge in the Green Mountains and is traversed by the Ottauquechee River , a tributary of the Connecticut River . The main elevations are Blake Hill , Mount Tom and Mount Peg . Woodstock is located in central Vermont on a plateau of the Green Mountains, the so-called Upper Valley .

Neighboring communities

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

• North: Pomfret , 3.4 mi
• Northeast: Hartford , 11.2 miles
• East: Hartland , 7.5 miles
• Southeast: West Windsor , 4 mi
• South: Reading , 4.1 mi
• Southwest: Plymouth , 11 mi
• West: Bridgewater , 9.8 miles
• Northwest: Barnard , 6.6 mi

Note: Woodstock does not share a common border with the towns of Barnard and Plymouth. The places are so close together that it makes sense to include them on this list.

climate

Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Woodstock, Vermont Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Max. Temperature ( ° C ) -1.7 -0.4 4.9 12.4 19.9 24.6 27.3 25.8 21.6 14.9 7.3 0.2 O 13.1 Min. Temperature (° C) -14.7 -14.1 -7, -1.0 4.8 10.0 12.6 11.3 7.4 1.3 -3.4 -10.7 O −0.2 Precipitation ( mm ) 73 70 79 83 89 88 97 83 92 86 89 82 Σ 1.011 Rainy days ( d ) 9 8th 9 9 11 11 11 10 9 9 10 9 Σ 115 Source: www.weatherbase.com

The mean average temperature in Woodstock is between −8.1 ° C in January and 20.0 ° C in July; the mean annual temperature is 6.4 ° C. This largely corresponds to the average temperature values ​​in Vermont. The snowfall between October and May is around 45 cm (18 inches) in January as a peak value, almost 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 was proclaimed on July 10, 1761 by Governor Benning Wentworth and settled from around 1768. Well supplied with hydropower due to the river location, in addition to the farms on the banks of the Ottauquechee, various mills were initially built, later also factories that exported their products to the surrounding states from 1878 on the Woodstock Railway, which was then completed, via White River Junction . The railway line became unprofitable from 1929 due to the economic decline and was finally closed in 1933. Woodstock lives primarily from tourism today; many houses are sold or rented as second homes to residents of New York and the metropolises of the east coast.

Carl Zuckmayer lived with his wife Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer in a small farmhouse in Woodstock from the winter of 1944/45. This is where his story Der Seelenbräu was created . Even after he returned to Germany after the end of the war, the family returned regularly to Woodstock until 1958 to retire to the farm to write.

Religions

Woodstock has an Episcopal ( St. James ), a Unitarian , a Roman Catholic ( Our Lady of the Snow ) and a Jewish community ( Shir Heharim ).

Population development

Census Results - Town of Woodstock, Vermont
year	1700	1710	1720	1730	1740	1750	1760	1770	1780	1790
Residents										1605
year	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890
Residents	2132	2672	2610	3044	3315	3041	3062	2910	2815	2545
year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	2557	2545	2370	2469	2512	2613	2786	2608	3214	3212
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	3232	3048

Culture and sights

Museums

On the northern edge of the community there is a museum courtyard, Billings Farm , which produces in the traditional way and offers children and adults demonstrations of old farming techniques. The house where the poet George Perkins Marsh grew up is also preserved and is listed on Vermont's National Historic Landmarks as the George Perkins Marsh Boyhood Home .

Buildings

Three covered bridges , made entirely of wood, span the Ottauquechee River: the Lincoln Covered Bridge from 1865, the Middle Covered Bridge from 1969 and the Taftsville Covered Bridge from 1836.

Parks

The Marsh – Billings – Rockefeller National Historic Park is a two-part recreational area, founded in 1956, with a 14-acre mountain lake.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The place is connected to the network of American highways by the interstate 4 , which touches the main town and runs in an east-west direction . As an important connection to the south, Vermont State Route 106 also flows into the main town; the Vermont State Route 12 leads coming from the east, the connection to the North on.

media

There are two local VHF transmitters in the village: WMXR (on frequency 93.9 MHz) and WGLV (on frequency 91.7 MHz).

Public facilities

There are no public facilities available in Woodstock other than the usual city administration and public library. The closest hospital is Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Hanover, New Hampshire .

education

All types of school up to high school are represented in the town. There are three schools in the village that cover all levels of education up to and including high school: the private Ottauquechee School , the six-class, public Woodstock Elementary School and the also public Woodstock Union Middle and High School , which offers grades 7 to 12.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Benjamin Emmons (1777–1843), Vermont and Missouri businessman and politician, son of Woodstock founder Benjamin Emmons (1737–1811)
• Sylvester Churchill (1783–1862), journalist and officer in the US Army
• Norman Williams (1791-1868), politician and lawyer for the Secretary of State of Vermont and Vermont Auditor of Accounts was
• George Perkins Marsh (1801–1882), politician and writer
• Francis Hobart Herrick (1858–1940), naturalist, ornithologist and university professor
• Leighton P. Slack (1867–1938), Vermont Lieutenant Governor and Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court
• Keegan Bradley (born 1986), professional golfer

Personalities who have worked on site

• Charles Marsh (1765–1849), Vermont politician and representative in the US House of Representatives; began his career as a lawyer in Woodstock
• Andrew Tracy (1797–1868), Vermont politician and representative in the US House of Representatives; ran a law firm here from 1838 until his death
• Julius Converse (1798–1885), politician and governor of Vermont; practiced here as a lawyer
• Peter T. Washburn (1814–1870), politician and governor of Vermont; was president of the Woodstock Railway and board member of the Rutland and Woodstock Railway
• Franklin S. Billings (1862–1935), politician and governor of Vermont; was director of the Woodstock Railway
• Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer (1901–1991), German writer
• Paul Scheffer (1883–1963), German journalist and former editor-in-chief of the Berliner Tageblatt ; owned a farm here
• Carl Zuckmayer (1896–1977), German writer

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in Three Parts . Part 3. Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. 198 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Woodstock, Vermont  - Collection of images, 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 February 12, 2017 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Woodstock 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. ↑ Coordinates of the locations of the Census Authority 2010
4. ↑ ^{a b c} climate, school and media data at www.City-Data.com (English)
5. ↑ Carl Zuckmayer: As if it were a piece of me. Hearing of friendship . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1966, p. 511 .
6. ^ Biography - Carl Zuckmayer Society Mainz. (No longer available online.) In: carl-zuckmayer.de. Archived from the original on March 23, 2016 ; accessed on October 28, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ Population 1790–2010 according to the census results
8. ↑ Entry of the Lincoln Covered Bridge in the bridge directory of VirtualVermont (English)
9. ↑ Entry of the Middle Covered Bridge in the bridge directory of VirtualVermont (English)
10. ↑ Entry of the Taftsville Covered Bridge in the bridge directory of VirtualVermont (English)
11. ^ Page of the National Park Service to the Marsh – Billings – Rockefeller National Historic Park