Northfield (Vermont)

Washington County

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Northfield is a town in Washington County of the State of Vermont in the United States with 6,207 inhabitants ( according to the census of 2010). The municipality is located in central Vermont in the Green Mountains in the valley of Dog River, about 14 km as the crow northwest of Vermont's capital, Montpelier.

Northfield was proclaimed on November 6, 1780 for settlement; the first permanent settlement was achieved in May 1785 in; the town was already nine years later, founded in 1794 as a politically independent community.

On November 7, 1822 the eastern part of the town Waitsfield Northfield was slammed. The order specified limits of town are unchanged since then.

On October 10, 1848, the railway Windsor Burlington opened its first station in the resort. Due to the central location here was the first Central Vermont Rail Depot, the operational and administrative center of the Central Vermont Railway. The first building burned down in 1851 and until 1852 was replaced by a new building, which remained so until 1860 the headquarters of the Central Vermont Railroad. Then the administrative headquarters moved to St. Albans. Rail traffic was discontinued in the 1970s. The building complex is still needed today and is considered the oldest existing station Vermont. He now belongs to the Canadian National Railway.

Since 1866 Northfield is the headquarters of Norwich University, a private military college, was implemented on the for the first time in the United States, the principle of a comprehensive humanistic education for officers, which has since enforced in the officer training. The Norfolk University, is a college despite its name, is now the largest employer in the town dar.

Within the community Northfield exists as administratively dependent on the surrounding town main settlement of the City Northfield Village with more than 3,000 inhabitants.

Sons and daughters of the town

Nearby Cities

All information bee-line distances.

  • North: Stowe, 34.0 km
  • Northeast: Montpelier, 14.5 km
  • East Orange, 20.0 km
  • Southeast: Washington, 20.0 km
  • South: Randolph, 25.0 km
  • Southwest: Roxbury, 10.5 km
  • West: Waitsfield, 14.0 km
  • North West: Richmond, 38.5 km
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