Windsor (Vermont)
Windsor County
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Windsor is a town in Windsor County, the State of Vermont in the United States with 3,553 inhabitants ( according to the census of 2010). The community extends along the west bank of the Connecticut River; the 1,000 meter high Mount Ascutney is half also in the municipality. Until the late 19th century, sheep farming shaped the region; Merino sheep from Windsor were exported to South Africa and Australia. After that, the dairy industry for the area grew in importance, the resigned since the 1960s as an economic factor behind the ski tourism.
Windsor was proclaimed on July 6, 1761 by Governor Benning Wentworth as part of the New Hampshire Grants. The first permanent settlement is documented from August 1764. Shortly thereafter, the constituent town meeting was held; the exact date is not known.
On July 2, 1777, adopted the Constitution of the six months earlier proclaimed Vermont Republic by 72 delegates from 28 Towns of the new state in Elijah West 's Tavern (now the Old Constitution House, a museum ). She was the first written constitution of an independent state on American soil. The Constitution granted all adult males the right to vote and expressly forbade slavery.
In 1793 Windsor was administratively separated into two distinct areas, the absandten both own delegates to the Congress. But it was only on November 4, 1814 came to the secession of East Windsor as a separate Town. Already on 1 March 1816, the two Towns were grouped again under the original name. A final separation of Towns in their present boundaries was made only on 26 October 1848. Here, the new Town was given more than 55 % of the area of the original community area of Windsor, but only a third of the residents.
As of 1848, the railway line Brattleboro -Windsor was built through the valley of the Connecticut River. It reached 1849 Windsor, which has since has a passenger station. However, the line was not decisive for the further development of the Town, as was the case with some other stations along the line. Even today stops here daily the Express The Vermonter who brings tourists to the ski resort at Mount Ascutney. Other major transport connections are Interstate 91 and U.S. Route 5, go through both of the community.
In the Town there are congregations of Unitarians, Methodists, the Catholics and the United Church of Christ. Up to high school all school types are represented; for the medical care of residents makes the Mount Ascutney Hospital & Health Center.
Nearby Cities
All information bee-line distances.
- North Hartland, 7.5 km
- Northeast: Enfield, 27.0 km
- East: Grantham, 20.5 km
- Southeast: Cornish, 3 km
- South: Rockingham, 33.0 km
- Southwest: Cavendish, 20.5 km
- West: West Windsor 7.5 km
- North West Bridgewater, 28.0 km
Sons and daughters of the town
- James Dean (1776 - 1849), astronomer and mathematician
- Carlos Coolidge (1792 - 1866), politician and Governor of Vermont
- Henry Dana Washburn (1832 - 1871), Explorer and a deputy in the U.S. House of Representatives
- Andrew Ellicott Douglass (1867 - 1962), astronomer and founder of dendrochronology
- Johnny Williams ( born 1929 ), jazz pianist