Essex Junction, Vermont

Chittenden County

50-24400

Essex Junction is a town in Chittenden County, the State of Vermont in the United States with 9,271 inhabitants ( according to the census of 2010 ). It originated as one of the key settlements in the municipality of Essex and worked as " stroke Falls", from 1850 under the name " Painesville " known (after the Governor Charles Paine ). At the beginning of the 1850s several rail lines were built by Vermont. The railway Windsor Burlington was completed in 1849 and in 1851 branched in Painesville a line to Rouses Point from. 1877 nor the railroad Burlington Cambridge Junction was opened, which also touched that node. The conductor of the different lines called the station as " Essex Junction " ( " node Essex " ) to indicate the passengers on the interchanges. After the financial collapse Paines, the operator of one of these rail lines had been removed during construction of the new station building by the new owner whose name out of the station sign and instead " Essex Junction " is selected. This name is also the place for the traveler was known. With the proclamation of the place as a financially self-responsible community (village ) on 15 October 1892, the General Assembly of the State of Vermont, he was appointed as the official name of the village.

With the installation of a multi-day exhibition founded in 1913, the " Champlain Valley Exposition ", of Essex Center Essex Junction Essex Junction in 1922 became part of the economic agglomeration Burlington. The show became a central event of Vermont, which exists to this day. As in 1953, some 1,000 jobs were lost in the closure of wool combing the nearby Winooski, also part of the metropolitan area founded the affected villages, including Essex Junction, a joint marketing company, which should provide for the creation of new industries in the metropolitan area. As a result of these efforts, IBM built a semiconductor plant in Essex Junction, which produces microchips to this day and has around 6,500 jobs represents the largest employers of Vermont.

Since the 1950s, efforts between Essex Junction and the surrounding areas have been identified that administrative division of the velvet municipality and its economic center pick up again. For simultaneous positive referenda in both management areas are required. A first such vote in 1958 was carried out with no consistent result. Since then, several polls were induced but they were always rejected by one of the two sides. Only the survey of 7 November 2006 yielded a bilateral agreement for a merger. A successful citizens' initiative of the proponents of independence, which was concluded on 6 December 2006, forced a re- ballot, which was conducted on 23 January 2007, in turn, resulted in a majority in favor of the opponents of the merger, which was then tilted. In June 2011, only the police department and the high school are under a common management. Other important facilities such as the fire department, the library and the administrations of other types of schools are separated as before.

In the village there are two Methodist churches and a branch of the United Church of Christ. The place is also today, after the widespread decline of the railways, an important railway node for Vermont with a regular passenger of the Central Vermont Railroad and Vermont Railway; also holds here the Amtrak express train " The Vermonter " on his way from St. Albans to Washington DC The other transport connections are good: The Interstate 89 runs a few kilometers south of the city. The Burlington International Airport is about four kilometers southwest of the village.

Parts of the village, particularly the Main Street from the train station to the city center are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Photos

South Main Street Listed on the National Register of Historic Places

The Amtrak station

Nearby Cities

  • North: Milton, 16km
  • Northeast: Cambridge, 27 km
  • East: Jericho, 9 km
  • South-East: Richmond, 13 km
  • South: Willston, 7 km
  • Southwest: Shelburne, 18 km
  • West: Winooski, 5.5 km
  • Northwest: Colchester, 8 km

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