Baltimore (Vermont)

Windsor County

50-02575

Baltimore is a town in Windsor County, the State of Vermont in the United States with 244 inhabitants ( according to the census of 2010). The municipality has no center; the population is distributed in the form of individual farms over the entire area.

History

The place was originally performed as part of Cavendish, but declared on October 19, 1793 by the Senate from Vermont for themselves. Background was the then poor communication ability of the two areas by a steep ridge, the Hawks Mountain, which divided the original Town. The boundary between the present-day counties extends to a majority of this ridge. The constituent town meeting was held on March 12, 1794.

Several small streams traverse the community, but none of them is large enough to act as a drive for water power driven industries. So Baltimore was from the beginning a purely agricultural center. 1840 were the main products potatoes and sheep. In the first census of 1800, in which the location was recorded, 174 inhabitants were registered, of which 74 are younger than 10 years. In 1840 the place 155 inhabitants, in 2010 there were 244 The town was connected neither by the accelerated construction in Vermont starting in 1848 through the development of the expressway network after the Second World War to the outside world.

On the territory of the municipality Baltimore no schools exist. The responsible hospital is located in Springfield.

Nearby Cities

All information bee-line distances from the center of Town.

• North Woodstock, 30.5 km
• Northeast: Weathersfield, 8.0 km
• East: Claremont, 17.0 km
• Southeast: Springfield, 8.5 km
• South Grafton, 21.0 km
• Southwest: Andover, 14.5 km
• West: Danby, 39.0 km
• Northwest: Ludlow, 13.0 km