Waterbury, Vermont Waterbury, Vermont Location in Washington County and the state of Vermont Location in Washington County and the state of Vermont Waterbury, Vermont is positioned in the US Waterbury, Vermont - Waterbury, Vermont State Vermont Waterbury is a town in Washington County in central Vermont, United States.
The locale where Waterbury now lies was once the frontier between the Mahican and Pennacook citizens .
Many of the early pioneer came from Waterbury, Connecticut, and titled their new town with respect to the hometown. The village of Waterbury was incorporated in 1882 with a populace of over 2,000.
The Central Vermont Railroad came to Waterbury in 1849. The barns period a traveler station for the barns in 1875, making the station a more primary stop on the Vermonter. The Green Mountain Seminary was assembled in Waterbury Center in 1869.
The state opened the Vermont State Asylum for the Insane here in 1891. The hospital, retitled the Vermont State Hospital, interval to occupy over 40 buildings, but by the 1980s the number of patients had declined to the point where only one building was required.
Like many New England towns, Waterbury's economy was based around the small-town river foundry industry and the encircling agricultural producers.
In 1927, Waterbury, like many other Vermont communities, was devastated by flooding.
Inscriptions on the sides of some buildings in Waterbury village purport to show where the level of the water rose amid the 1927 flood.
The village recovered, and in 1938 the Waterbury Dam was assembled on the Little River by the Army Corps of Engineers to control future flooding in areas downstream of the town center.
On August 29, 2011, Tropical Storm Irene flooded downtown Waterbury and filled the buildings of the Vermont State Hospital, Vermont's enhance psychiatric complex, with up to 6 feet (1.8 m) of water.
Patients from the mental hospital were temporarily homed in various locations around Vermont, and over 1,100 of the 1,586 state employees were working in office space in other suburbs as of October 2011.
Waterbury is the locale of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream, whose factory tours have turn into Vermont's most prominent tourist attraction. Other small-town businesses include: Sun - Common, Cabot Creamery Annex, the Alchemist microbrewery, CC Outdoor Store, Cold Hollow Cider Mill, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, and Lake Champlain Chocolates, as well as a several well-reputed bars and restaurants.
In the town, the populace was spread out with 25.1% under the age of 18, 5.5% from 18 to 24, 32.8% from 25 to 44, 26.2% from 45 to 64, and 10.3% who were 65 years of age or older.
The State of Vermont operates the Waterbury Office Complex. The Vermont Department of Corrections has its command posts in the Waterbury Office Complex. Waterbury belongs to the Washington West Supervisory Union.
See also: Waterbury (Amtrak station) Amtrak, the nationwide traveler rail system, provides everyday service to Waterbury, operating its Vermonter between St.
WWMP (MP103) 103.3 FM (Rock, Pop & R&B) is officially licensed to Waterbury and has its transmission fortress located on Ricker Mountain (which it shares with sister station WNCS Montpelier), but its offices and studios are positioned in South Burlington.
According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Waterbury has a humid continental climate, abbreviated "Dfb" on climate maps. "Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Waterbury town, Washington County, Vermont".
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