White River Junction, Vermont
Windsor County
50-83575
White River Junction is a municipality (village ) in the state of Vermont in the United States with 2,286 inhabitants ( according to the census of 2010). White River Junction is politically and administratively dependent on the Town of Hartford, in its municipal area it is located.
The village lies at the confluence of the White River in the Connecticut River on the west side of the river. Around 1793, a ferry across the Connecticut was the site of the present village, which was then called Lyman 's Point, furnished. In 1803 the ferry was replaced by a fixed bridge over the Connecticut River, in 1815 another bridge over the White River. Both bridges were operated by the former ferryman Elias Lyman. Until the construction of the first railway line of this ferry and bridge house remained the only settlement at this point.
Between 1847 and 1849, the routes of four different railway companies (Central Vermont Railway, Connecticut River Railroad, Connecticut and Passumpsic Rivers Railroad and Northern New Hampshire Railroad ) what the church the largest railway junction of Vermont have been linked to the confluence of the White River in the Connecticut River, made. At times, stopped here daily for up to 50 passenger trains. 1863, an additional route through the Woodstock Railway was connected here.
Between 1890 and 1928 (with the exception of the period from 1901 to 1906 ) took place in an open area above the city every year for a week of Twin State Fair, a major exhibition, instead. For this purpose, a 950 -meter-long railway line was built, which drove the visitors from the station to the fairgrounds and was operated only during the week of the fair: the Fairgrounds Railroad. After the end of the measuring line was shut down.
Since the decline of the railroads in the United States in the 1960s, the importance of the place has declined sharply. The station is maintained but today and every day by the express train '' '' The Vermonter Amtrak to Washington DC connected. In addition, cross at the southern edge, the two Interstates 89 and 91 The Highways 4 and 5 by cross on a common road section the place.
Large parts of the city are listed monument since 1980. The station also a railway museum has settled. The city strives today to a reputation as an artist town with many galleries and an art school at the site.
Nearby Cities
All information bee-line distances.
- North: Norwich, 7.5 km
- East: Lebanon, 5.5 km
- Southeast: Grantham, 22.0 km
- South: Windsor, 19.0 km
- Southwest: Reading, 28.0 km
- West: Woodstock, 16.0 km
- North West Hartford, 5.5 km