Arlington, Vermont
Arlington, Vermont Arlington, Vermont Arlington, Vermont Arlington, Vermont is positioned in the US Arlington, Vermont - Arlington, Vermont Arlington is a town in Bennington County, Vermont, United States.
The town of Arlington was chartered July 28, 1761, by New Hampshire Governor Benning Wentworth, as part of the New Hampshire Grants.
In 1777, Arlington became the first capital of the Vermont Republic.
Among the first pioneer in Arlington were Captain Jehiel Hawley and his family, who had settled there by 1764.
At a Proprietor's meeting in 1764, the town voted to give 50 acres (20 hectares) of territory to any man who would set up a gristmill in what is now East Arlington.
In the years dominant up to the American Revolution, both New York and New Hampshire laid claim to lands comprising current-day Vermont.
The Province of New York began to grant territory in 1765, lagging New Hampshire by four years.
Arlington was, for the most part, settled by Anglicans from Roxbury, Newtown, and Milford, Connecticut, with ownership rights derived from the New Hampshire Grants.
Among other things, the inhabitants of Arlington relied on the militancy of Ethan Allen to discourage those touting New York grants.
Several members of the Green Mountain Boys lived, in Arlington, before the American Revolution, including Thomas Chittenden, Seth Warner and Remember Baker, who was the first town clerk.
Gideon Hard, a congressman, from New York, was born in Arlington. During the American Revolutionary War, the Patriot soldiers, of the Green Mountain Boys, rallied, against Loyalist opposition, in the town.
British Loyalist people, in Arlington, united under the leadership of Dr.
Arlington lies in the Valley of Vermont between the Taconic Range to the west and the Green Mountains to the east, with most of Arlington's territory mass lying in the Taconic Range.
Five prominent peaks are positioned inside the town: Grass Mountain, Spruce Peak, The Ball (also locally alluded to as West Mountain), Red Mountain, and Big Spruce Mountain.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 42.4 square miles (109.9 km2), of which 42.2 square miles (109.4 km2) is territory and 0.19 square miles (0.5 km2), or 0.45%, is water. The Battenkill River, famous for trout fishing, flows through the center of town.
Climate data for Arlington, Vermont In the town, the populace was spread out with 23.0% under the age of 18, 6.0% from 18 to 24, 26.2% from 25 to 44, 28.3% from 45 to 64, and 16.5% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town was $40,590, and the median income for a family was $49,412.
Schools in Arlington include Arlington Memorial School, a high school with some 250 pupils. Samuel Adams, early Vermont settler and American Revolutionary War, British Loyalist, who formed the British, military unit, Adams' Rangers Remember Baker, early Vermont settler and Green Mountain Boy Thomas Chittenden, first governor of Vermont and first and third governor of the Vermont Republic Fox lived in Arlington, also, was married in Arlington Norman Rockwell, painter and illustrator (Willie Gillis, The Problem We All Live With, Four Freedoms); lived in Arlington Seth Warner, early Vermont settler and Green Mountain Boy a b "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Arlington town, Bennington County, Vermont".
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