Vernon (Vermont)
Windham County
50-74800
Vernon is a town in Windham County, Vermont, in the United States. It has 2,206 inhabitants ( according to the census of 2010). Vernon is located on the west bank of the Connecticut River in the border region of the U.S. states of New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Vermont.
Today's Vernon is one of the areas of Vermont that were settled at the earliest. During the colonization of the North American continent, the Connecticut River was used as a transport route into the interior. Already in 1672, parts of present-day Vernon's released in the wake of the Massachusetts Grant for colonization. The country was then in Northfield, from which it was but separated again in the same year: Massachusetts had accidentally released some pieces of land to colonize, the really belonged to New Hampshire. To compensate therefore, some other surfaces, the equivalent contiguous, into membership of New Hampshire. The day belongs to Vernon area Northfields was part of that compensation areas.
1736 Massachusetts made another grand for the now non-existent case to Town; Parts of it today is yet another area Vernons.
The areas were quickly settled by colonists. But you had to be protected against the native Indians, who defended their hunting grounds located here. Shortly after the proclamation of Northfields and the construction of Fort Dummer therefore two armed cabins have been set up at the same time as a refuge during raids served the settlers: Bridgeman 's continued and Fort Sartwell. Bridgeman 's continued was attacked several times, first defended on June 24, 1746 by 20 Indians, but with the loss of two settlers. A year later the fort but was captured and burnt and 11 women and children who had taken refuge there, abducted to Canada. Fort Bridgeman was then rebuilt, but in 1754 finally destroyed. Fort tilth however, consisted until 1835 and was then demolished.
1753 was officially declared the area under the name of Hinsdale for colonization by settlers from New Hampshire by Benning Wentworth. The county was on both sides of the Connecticut River. After the proclamation of independence of Vermont (1777 ) and the establishment of the Connecticut River as a border river, the boundaries of the county were adjusted one last time and are still valid today.
By decision of the residents of the Town of hitherto valid name Hinsdale in 1802 changed to Vernon. The name was chosen after George Washington's home, in the three years before the deceased statesman had been buried.
Since this name change, there were no notable historical events in Veron. The community grew slowly and steadily increasing to an agriculturally oriented town with lancierendem small businesses. The railway line New London Brattleboro, which was built along the course of the Connecticut River and reached 1849 Vernon, did not change this. All three furnished in the area of town stations are now closed.
Since 1972, the riverside Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant provides power for Vermont and the surrounding states of New Hampshire and Massachusetts. It is the only nuclear power plant Vermont and also represents the largest employers in the town dar.
Nearby Cities
All information bee-line distances.
- North: Brattleboro, 9.5 km
- Northeast: Keene, 26.5 km
- East: Winchester, 11.5 km
- Southeast: Northfield, 8.0 km
- South: Bernardston, 10.5 km
- Southwest: Leyden, 11.5 km
- West Halifax, 20.5 km
- Northwest: Marlboro, 20.0 km
Sons and daughters of the town
- Jonathan Hunt (1787-1832), American politician and member of the House of Representatives