Vergennes, Vermont Vergennes, Vermont Official seal of Vergennes, Vermont Location in Addison County and the state of Vermont.
Location in Addison County and the state of Vermont.
Incorporated as a town/city 1788 Vergennes /v r d nz/ is a town/city located in the northwest quadrant of Addison County, Vermont.
As of the 2010 census the town/city population was 2,588.
It is the smallest of Vermont's nine metros/cities in terms of population, though the town/city of Winooski covers a lesser area.
It was the first town/city chartered in the state of Vermont. Vergennes, first settled in 1766 by Donald Mac - Intosh, was established in 1788, the only one of Vermont's metros/cities not to have been first chartered as a Town or autonomous village.
Instead, portions of the pre-existing Towns of New Haven, Panton and Ferrisburg, where they intersected at the Otter Creek Falls, were split off to form Vergennes. It is the smallest town/city (by population) in Vermont.
The town/city is titled for Frenchman Charles Gravier, Comte de Vergennes, who greatly aided the rebel colonial accomplishment in the American Revolutionary War. His hatred of the British and his desire for revenge after the French defeat in the French and Indian War (the North American front of the Seven Years' War won by the British), led him to support the American rebel colonists by arranging to send them arms and troops to the revolutionary cause.
At the close of the war, Gravier negotiated the 1783 Treaty of Paris, which formally established peace between the United States and Britain.
The Monkton Iron Company (which was at the time the biggest iron works in the nation) produced the fittings for Macdonough's fleet, as well as most of the cannon shot used by the United States Army in the north.
Organizers settled on a town/city form of municipal government in the ambition to precarious the region as an industrialized center.
As stockyards s supplanted and bypassed the canal system, manufacturing declined in the city.
In the early years of the 21st century, a group of civic boosters and merchants improved the downtown region along Main Street and reconnected the town/city to its waterways.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 2.5 square miles (6.5 km2), of which 2.4 square miles (6.2 km2) is territory and 0.1 square mile (0.3 km2) (4.00%) is water.
The city's borders form a rectangle, almost a square.
Vergennes City Hall and Opera House As of the census of 2010, there were 2,588 citizens , 979 homeholds, and 632 families living in the city.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 92.8% White, 3.0% African American, 0.3% Native American, 0.9% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 0.7% from other competitions, and 2.3% from two or more competitions.
In the city, the age distribution of the populace shows 28.4% under the age of 18, 13.1% from 18 to 24, 27.8% from 25 to 44, 19.3% from 45 to 64, and 11.3% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $37,763, and the median income for a family was $48,155.
The per capita income for the town/city was $15,465.
About 8.1% of families and 17.0% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 8.5% of those under age 18 and 16.0% of those age 65 or over.
Vergennes has four schools: Vergennes Union Elementary School, Vergennes Union High School, Champlain Valley Christian School, and Northlands Job Corps Center, the former Weeks School, which served as an orphanage and juvenile delinquent home until the late 1970s, in the same facility.
Vergennes Union High School also offers an alternative enhance program, the Walden Project, available to region pupils.
The town/city features the Vergennes Opera House, which has weekly affairs involving the improve and special guests, bands, singers, politicians and theater groups.
The town/city has a library, the Bixby Memorial Free Library. Henry Porter, pitcher with the Milwaukee Brewers, Brooklyn Grays, and Kansas City Cowboys City of Vergennes.
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