Essex (Vermont)
Chittenden County
Essex is a town in Chittenden County, the State of Vermont in the United States with 19 587 inhabitants ( according to the census of 2010 ). It is located 12 km east of Lake Champlain and about 22 km west of Mount Mansfield at the western edge of the Green Mountains.
According to the official conquest of the area on June 7, 1763 settlement began hesitantly; only ten years later, the first settlers settled here permanently. As of 1784, the population grew rapidly, favored by the fertile, temperate hilly land, the construction of mills well suitable watercourses and forestry opportunities. The former settlement centered at Essex Center, but shifted after the stroke event, today's Essex Junction, as in 1850 there is a train station was built. This station 1853 to the node of several railway lines, which led to a high level of awareness and easier accessibility of the place.
A dispute over the need for sidewalks and sewers for Essex Junction, who refused to help pay the residents of the surrounding area of the city, led in 1892 to the economic independence of the place as a village. The Farming remaining town thus cut off from their business center. A multi-day agricultural fair was in 1913 in Essex Center, the second main town of the area, set up, but moved in 1922 to Essex Junction and is performed there every year to this day under the name of " Champlain Valley Exposition ".
Since 1955, there have been efforts to bring together the two areas again, but so far such an association has been in several polls consistently rejected by one of the two sides. A vote in 2006 in which a majority of both worlds arguing for a merger, was promptly tipped by another, forced by a petition for a new election in Essex Junction.
Essex is well served by its marginal position in the metropolitan Burlington on the roads of Vermont. Thus is located six kilometers south-east of Burlington International Airport; seven kilometers south leads past the Interstate 89 and connects Essex in a westerly direction with the State of New York, in an easterly direction with the centers of New England and the east coast. The Vermont Route 12 connects Essex with the ski resorts of Jericho and Underhill, Vermont Route 128 leads in the northern towns of Franklin County and the Canadian border.
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Nearby Cities
- North: Milton, 15 km
- Northeast: Westford, 13 km
- East: Jericho, 8 km
- South-East: Richmond, 13 km
- South: St. George, 14 km
- Southwest: South Burlington, 8 km
- West: Winooski, 7 km
- Northwest: Colchester, 7 km
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