Fairlee, Vermont
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Located in Orange County, Vermont Located in Orange County, Vermont State Vermont Fairlee is a town in Orange County, Vermont, United States.
Fairlee is home to Lake Morey, which claims to have the longest ice skating trail in the United States. One of the New Hampshire grants, Fairlee was chartered by Governor Benning Wentworth on September 9, 1761 and awarded to Josiah Channey, Joseph Hubbard and 62 others. It was first settled in 1766.
On February 25, 1797, the half was set off as West Fairlee.
The populace was 575 by 1859, when it had a several sawmills, a gristmill, and an establishment for lead pipe and pumps. The Fairlee Railroad Depot was assembled in 1848 by the Connecticut & Passumpsic Rivers Railroad.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 21.2 square miles (55.0 km2), of which, 20.2 square miles (52.3 km2) of it is territory and 1.0 square miles (2.7 km2) of it (4.90%) is water.
Bounded by the Connecticut River, Fairlee is drained by Glen Falls Brook, Big Brook and the supply of Lake Morey.
As of the census of 2000, there were 967 citizens , 395 homeholds, and 265 families living in the town.
There were 395 homeholds out of which 31.4% had kids under the age of 18 residing with them, 54.2% were married couples residing together, 7.8% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 32.7% were non-families.
In the town, the populace was spread out with 23.6% under the age of 18, 7.2% from 18 to 24, 28.3% from 25 to 44, 25.4% from 45 to 64, and 15.4% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town was $44,018, and the median income for a family was $48,250.
About 2.6% of families and 5.6% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 4.7% of those under age 18 and 13.4% of those age 65 or over.
Fairlee Railroad Depot Route 5, and Vermont 244.svg Vermont Route 244.
"Town of Fairlee Vermont".
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Lake Morey Ice Skating Trail National Register of Historic Places -- Fairlee Railroad Depot "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2014".
Vermont Historical Society, Proceedings of the Vermont Historical Society, 1915, page 203 Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Fairlee (Vermont).
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