Newport (town), Vermont
Orleans County
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Newport is a town in Orleans County, the State of Vermont in the United States with 1,594 inhabitants ( according to the census of 2010). The municipality is bordered on the north by Canada and on the shores of Lac Memphrémagog.
Newport was proclaimed with a size of 23,040 acres ( about 93 square kilometers ) under the name Duncansboro on 26 October 1781 but not sold until 30 October 1802. This is considered the official founding date of the Town. Its present name Newport since a renaming on 30 October 1816. Later in the history of the area by two surcharges from resolved neighboring Towns and the removal of the surface of today's separate City Newport on the present value of about 113 km ² was changed.
The settlement began in the years before 1800, ie before the official sale of the surface. They got off to a viscous; the settlers lived primarily by agriculture and forestry. Around 1840 were cattle and sheep as well as potatoes and sugar production formative production areas. Today, the forest industry is the dominant industry.
A railroad track that should open up White River Junction from the western hinterland of the Connecticut River to Derby and then north to Canada, was projected in 1835 and implemented from 1848. The first train of this compound reached Newport on 14 October 1863. Starting in 1869 this route the railway Newport Farnham, which went into operation on 9 July 1873, supplemented by a connection to Montreal. Both routes led indeed to an expanded market for local products, but broke no industrialization boom.
The then chief town and administrative center of the municipality, in 1800, founded the Village of Newport, was declared with effect from March 5, 1918 with a part of the community for the independent city of Derby, who took over the majority of the population of the original site. Since then, the chief town of Newport Center.
The remaining part of the area of the Town is primarily agricultural, especially on dairy and forestry, aligned. In addition, the lakeshore offers opportunity for some tourist earning potential.
Due to Interstate 91 and the Newport State Airport, which was created on the territory of the Town near the city limits of Newport City, the community is connected to the outside world. The railway line to White River Junction, which now ends in Newport, is served only in freight transport since 1965.
In the village there is a school of general education, the Newport Town School. A further High School can be found in neighboring Newport City. Also, in the Town, a Methodist congregation; other religious communities are located in Newport City.
Nearby Cities
All information as airlines.
- North: Austin (Canada), 27.0 km
- Northeast: Stanstead (Canada), 18.0 km
- East: Derby, 13.5 km
- Southeast: Brighton, 36.5 km
- South: Hardwick, 47.5 km
- Southwest: Lowell, 19.0 km
- West Berkshire, 33.0 km
- Northwest: Sutton (Canada), 30.5 km
Sons and daughters of the town
- George H. Prouty (1862-1918), American politician and governor of the state of Vermont.
- Charles Adams (1876-1947), entrepreneur
- Winston L. Prouty (1906-1971), American politician and Member of Parliament in both chambers of the House of Representatives.
- Lane Dwinell (1906-1997), American politician and governor of the state of New Hampshire.