Pownal, Vermont Pownal, Vermont Pownal, Vermont Pownal, Vermont Pownal, Vermont is positioned in the US Pownal, Vermont - Pownal, Vermont Pownal is a town in Bennington County, Vermont, United States.
As of the 2010 census, the town populace was 3,527. The town of Pownal contains the villages of Pownal, North Pownal, and Pownal Center.
The southwestern corner of Pownal was part of the patroonship. Rensselaerswyck passed into English control in 1664.
On January 28, 1760, New Hampshire Governor Benning Wentworth chartered Pownal, which he titled after his fellow royal governor, Thomas Pownall of the Province of Massachusetts Bay. In 1766, 185 male heads of homeholds in Pownal sent a petition to George III, asking that their territory claims be recognized and that the fees required to do so be waived.
Since Wentworth had granted to pioneer land that the Province of New York also claimed, legal and physical conflicts broke out between "Yorkers" and pioneer in the New Hampshire Grants (or "The Grants").
As a result, a number of Pownal inhabitants joined the Green Mountain Boys under Ethan Allen.
By the end of the Revolution, most Tories had fled Pownal for safety among the United Empire Loyalists who resettled in Canada.
The novel Memoir of a Green Mountain Boy starts and ends in Pownal amid the early years of the Revolution.
The earliest home in both Pownal and Vermont is the Mooar-Wright House, possibly assembled in the 1750s.
Pownal people have long prided themselves on their autonomous spirit.
Today Pownal has five churches.
The earliest church, Pownal Center Community Church, was ordered in 1794 as the Union Church, serving both Baptists and Methodists, and open to any denomination.
It was replaced in 1849 by the present church, jointly owned by the town and church.
This church has a unique history as it was deeded to the Town and three members of the church as part of gleebe lands by the King of England.
The academy prepared boys for college (and became the foundation for Arthur's future path to study law). Future President James Garfield also taught in North Pownal.
The wool trade reached its peak between 1820 and 1840, though farmers continued to raise sheep until the 20th century. On the Hoosic River in North Pownal, an 18th-century gristmill was replaced by a woolen foundry that directed from 1849 until 1863, when it burned.
His photograph of twelve-year-old Addie Card, entitled "Anemic Little Spinner in North Pownal Cotton Mill, North Pownal, Vermont, August 1910", was featured on the U.S.
The Berkshire Street Railway Company began street car service from Williamstown to Bennington via Pownal on June 27, 1907.
Lime quarries directed in North Pownal until 1936.
The YMCA's Camp Ilium was in Pownal.
Camp Ilium was the starting point of the Boy Scout Movement for Pownal and Troy, New York. Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, North Pownal Pownal is the southwesternmost town in Vermont; it is bordered by Williamstown, Massachusetts, to the south and Petersburgh, New York, to the west.
Pownal also borders the suburbs of Stamford to the east, Woodford to the northeast, and Bennington to the north.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 46.7 square miles (121.0 km2), of which 46.4 square miles (120.3 km2) is territory and 0.27 square miles (0.7 km2), or 0.58%, is water. Pownal is drained by the Hoosic River, a tributary of the Hudson River.
Route 7, which is the town's chief road; and Vermont Route 346, a short route that begins at U.S.
7 at the village of Pownal and runs northwestward (along the Hoosic River) to the New York state line.
The Long Trail, America's earliest long-distance hiking trail, begins in Pownal on the border with Massachusetts inside the Green Mountain National Forest.
The ethnic makeup of the town was 97.84% White, 0.28% African American, 0.42% Native American, 0.56% Asian, 0.20% from other competitions, and 0.70% from two or more competitions.
In the town, the age distribution of the populace shows 25.4% under the age of 18, 7.6% from 18 to 24, 28.9% from 25 to 44, 27.0% from 45 to 64, and 11.1% who were 65 years of age or older.
According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Pownal has a humid continental climate, abbreviated "Dfb" on climate maps. a b "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Pownal town, Bennington County, Vermont".
Pownal Center Community Church.
Pownal Center Community Church.
"Pownal, Vermont Koppen Climate Classification (Weatherbase)".
Pownal Historical Society.
Images of America: Pownal.
Pownal: A Vermont Town's Two Hundred Years and More.
Pownal, Vermont: Pownal Bicentennial Committee, 1977.
"New Hampshire Grants -- Being Transcripts of the Charters of Townships and Minor Grants of Lands Made by the Provincial Government of New Hampshire, inside the Present Boundaries of the State of Vermont, From 1749 to 1764." Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pownal, Vermont.
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