Newport (city), Vermont

Orleans County

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Newport City is a town in Orleans County, the State of Vermont in the United States with 4,589 inhabitants ( according to the census of 2010). It lies in the northern Zentralvermont near the Canadian border in the northern foothills of the Appalachian Mountains on the shores of Lake Memphremagog. Newport is a predominantly rural embossed area, which until the 1980s primarily as a local center of the lumberjack industry had meaning. Newport is the capital city ( county seat ) of Orleans County.

Today's City was established as the main urban center of the Town Newport in 1800 and originally known under the name Pickeral Point. 1816, parts of the later fully resolved Town Salem added to the present area. At this time the name of the settlement had already been changed to Lake Bridge. With the construction of the railway that connected the place from the year 1863 with White River Junction to Newport developed into the economic center of the area. A hotel was built as a Leihstall; from 1867 the ferry was taken with the paddle steamer Lady of the Lake, which now adorns the seal of the City on the Lake Memphremagog. 1868, the settlement was renamed the Village of Newport, was in 1886 raised to the administrative seat of Orange County and took over after the construction of a courthouse instead of the neighboring Irasburg also the Court of the County. On March 5, 1918 Newport was eventually elevated to the independent City, in the small parts of the adjacent Town Derby had been integrated before.

Since the 1950s, lost the main industry of the town, lumbering, growing in importance; since the 1980s it has almost come around to a complete standstill. 1967 presented to the railways passenger services; the freight is however maintained until today. Several large employers included in the economic crises of the 1990s and 2000s. The inhabitants Newport switch to other economically better unexampled areas. Newport is one of the places in Vermont, where the population will decrease in the long term; compared to the 2000 census, Newport lost about 10% of its residents.

The most important employer in the city is the North Country Hospital, which is the medical center for a wide area. General schools are available to high school, the city is connected via U.S. Route 5 as well as some country roads, the Vermont Routes 14, 100, 105 and 191 to the American road network. An airport, the Newport State Airport, located in the southeast of the city. In the city there are communities of the Assemblies of God, the Church of the Nazarene, the Episcopalians, the Catholics of the United Church of Christ and the Methodists.

Nearby Cities

All information bee-line distances.

  • North: Canadian border, 7.0 km
  • Northeast: Derby, 6.5 km
  • East: Averil, 42.5 km
  • Southeast: Charleston, 18.5 km
  • South: Orleans, 15.0 km
  • Southwest: Coventry, 10.5 km
  • West: Town of Newport, 8.0 km
  • Northwest: Mansonville, Québec, Canada 19.5 km

Sons and daughters of the town

  • George H. Prouty (1862-1918), politician and Governor of Vermont
  • Charles Adams (1876-1947), entrepreneur
  • Lane Dwinell (1906-1997), politician and Governor of New Hampshire
  • Winston L. Prouty (1906-1971), politician and Congressman
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