Norwich (Vermont)

Windsor County

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Norwich is a small town ( Town) in Windsor County in the U.S. state of Vermont. In 2010, Norwich had 3414 inhabitants.

Geography

Norwich is located on the right bank of the Connecticut River, which represents the state's border with New Hampshire, compared with its twin city of Hanover, New Hampshire. The two city centers are connected by the Ledyard Bridge. In the north of Norwich adjacent to Thetford, on the west by Sharon, and south to Hartford.

According to the United States Census Bureau, Norwich has an area of 116 km ², of which 0.26 km ² omitted ( = 0.31 %) to water. In addition to the Connecticut River here are two of its tributaries mentioned. The Bloody Brook rises in the hills to the west of the city and drains a large part of their district; at its mouth and the city center of Norwich arose. The water -rich Ompompanoosuc River reached Norwich from the northwest and flows near the settlement Pompanoosuc in Connecticut.

The terrain is hilly and heavily forested. The peaks reach heights between 200 and 400 meters on average. In Griggs Mountain, an elongated ridge southwest of the city, the terrain rises to 519 m, the highest elevation in the city is 565 m of the Gile Mountain in the northwest of the city.

In the valley of the Connecticut River off Interstate 91 and runs parallel to U.S. Highway 5 and a railroad of the former Boston and Maine Railroad (now the State of Vermont).

History

The history of the city began on July 4, 1761 as the Governor of New Hampshire a group of citizens of the State of Connecticut granted a patent settlement in which the boundaries of the city was established. The city was named after Norwich, Connecticut, where the first settlers had come. In the original certificate of incorporation, the name was still writing as " Norwhich " the extra hours but was omitted later. However, the three first settlers reached the country only in 1763 and began to clear the forest and build the first log cabins. From these initial efforts, the present village Pompanoosuc emerged. Other settlers settled in the following years at the site of the present city center down. A first Town Meeting was held in April 1768. 1770 founded a Congregational church, first church building was built in 1778. In 1771 the city had 206 inhabitants, twenty years on in 1158, and already in 2316 in 1830 inhabitants.

1819 founded Alden Partridge, a former superintendent of West Point Military Academy, the private military academy in Norwich American Literary, Scientific and Military Academy. In this training school he hoped a new to be able to implement the " American system " of education, with whom he was in West point still failed and presented a comprehensive education of his " cadet " not only in military, but also emphasis on humanistic and technical training. During the six years in Norwich almost 500 " cadets " were trained in 1825, however, the school moved to Middletown, Connecticut has to offer. 1835 Partridge returned back to Norwich after he had received from the Congress of the State of Vermont, a charter for the establishment of another private university granted. The teaching his new military academy ran until 1866, when its buildings were destroyed by fire. She pulled it around to North Field, but still exists today under the name of Norwich University.

Economy and infrastructure

The town hall, two churches and the primary school are in the center of the village, also a historic guest house.

Norwich is also the seat of the Montshire Museum of Science and the King Arthur Flour Company, a company that was founded in 1790 in Boston.

Norwich has one of the few inter-state public school systems, the Dresden School District, the cities Norwich, Vermont and Hanover, New Hampshire divide.

Well-known residents

• Walter Behrendt, Architect
• Paul Brigham, second Governor of Vermont
• Heinrich Brüning, German Chancellor of the Weimar Republic
• Daniel Azro Ashley Buck, Member of the House of Representatives of the United States for Vermont
• George A. Converse, Rear Admiral of the United States Navy in the Spanish -American War
• Philip Hale, organist and music critic
• Hannah Kearney, freestyle skier, winner of the gold medal in the moguls at the 2010 Winter Olympics
• Laurence G. Leavitt, long-time director of the Vermont Academy, Saxtons River
• Tony Lupien, Baseball Player
• Freya von Moltke, resistance fighter against National Socialism, writer and lawyer
• David Macaulay, architect, art historian and graphic designer
• Alden Partridge, founder of Norwich University
• Kevin Pearce, Snowboarder
• Eugen Rosenstock- Huessy, sociologist and historian of law, professor at Dartmouth College
• Betsy Snite, Olympic skier
• Walter H. Stockmayer, chemist and professor at Dartmouth College