Westminster (town), Vermont
Windham County
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Westminster is a town in Windham County, the State of Vermont in the United States with 3,178 inhabitants ( according to the census of 2010). It is located in the southeast corner of Vermont on the banks of the Connecticut River. The community is dominated by agriculture and supplier ends petty trades.
The community is one of the four oldest towns on the territory of today Vermont. Already in 1734 they founded together with three other areas along the eastern bank of the Connecticut River; at that time still under the name of the township no. 1 ( sometimes referred to as New Taunton ) under the administration of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. But at first permanent settlements occurred in 1751 On November 9, 1752 town was proclaimed as part of the New Hampshire Grants by Governor Benning Wentworth under the name Westminster again.; This date is now considered the official founding date of the municipality.
1762 was established by a royal decree of the Connecticut River as the boundary between the states of New York and New Hampshire. Then, Westminster was the then existing Cumberland County slammed under the administration of New York. As the New York governor the land purchases paid by the settlers of New Hampshire and not recognized, as in the other affected towns also demanded new, higher payments to New York's administration, it also came to Westminster to long-lasting insurgency. These uprisings led among others to storm the courthouse, killing a man in 1775 and another was seriously injured, the so-called Westminster Massacre. In the same court house was proclaimed the independence of Vermont as Vermont Republic in January 1777, which had in 1791 lasted until the accession of Vermont to the Alliance of the United States of America.
After these events, the history of the community from ran much quieter. 1851 reached the railway line Brattleboro -Windsor the place and tied it with one of the two railway tunnels Vermont to the nearby railway junction at Bellows Falls. Passenger traffic at the station Westminster was abandoned in 1966 and has not resumed.
Westminster offers primary and secondary schools in two schools; the nearest high school is located in the neighboring Bellows Falls.
Nearby Cities
All information bee-line distances.
- North: Bellows Falls, 7.0 km
- Northeast: Washington, 31.0 km
- East Walpole, 3.0 km
- Southeast: Keene, 20.0 km
- South: Putney, 9.0 km
- Southwest: Newfane, 18.0 km
- West: Townshend, 19.5 km
- North West: Grafton, 18.5 km
Sons and daughters of the town
- William Czar Bradley (1782-1867), politician and member of the U.S. House of Representatives
- George Edward Wales (1792-1860), politician and member of the U.S. House of Representatives
- Tara Correa - McMullen (1989-2005), actress