Fair Haven, Vermont

Coordinates: 43°36′00″N 73°16′06″W / 43.60000°N 73.26833°W / 43.60000; -73.26833
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Fair Haven, Vermont
Town
Main Street
Main Street
Located in Rutland County, Vermont
Located in Rutland County, Vermont
Location of Vermont with the U.S.A.
Location of Vermont with the U.S.A.
Coordinates: 43°36′00″N 73°16′06″W / 43.60000°N 73.26833°W / 43.60000; -73.26833
CountryUnited States
StateVermont
CountyRutland
Chartered1779
Communities
Government
 • ManagerJoseph Gunter
 • Town ClerkDani Roberts
 • Selectboard
List of Selectboard members
Area
ZIP code
05743
Area code802
Websitewww.fairhavenvt.org

Fair Haven is a town in

2020 census.[2] Within the town is located the census-designated place of Fair Haven. The town is noted for its late 19th century residential and commercial architecture.[3]

History

L.R. Burleigh
with listing of landmarks

Fair Haven was chartered on October 27, 1779, to Ebenezer Allen and 76 associates, and first settled the same year. The township originally included

rolling mill, nail factory, papermill producing wallpaper, three sawmills, a wagon shop, a machine shop, two blacksmith shops, and two shoe
shops. [5]

The

West. Some of it was made into the framed, book-sized writing slates that students of the time used.[5] On April 7, 1880, a very small area of Fair Haven was transferred to New York due to a change in the course in the Poultney River. The area transferred was west of the "middle of the deepest channel" of the river.[6]

  • Prospect Street c. 1910
    Prospect Street c. 1910
  • Free Library in 1914
    Free Library in 1914
  • Slate quarry c. 1910
    Slate quarry c. 1910

Demographics

Historical population
CensusPop.Note%±
1790545—
1800411−24.6%
181064556.9%
182071410.7%
1830675−5.5%
1840633−6.2%
185090242.5%
18601,37852.8%
18702,20860.2%
18802,2110.1%
18902,79126.2%
19002,9997.5%
19103,0953.2%
19202,540−17.9%
19302,6142.9%
19402,245−14.1%
19502,2861.8%
19602,3784.0%
19702,77716.8%
19802,8191.5%
19902,8872.4%
20002,9281.4%
20102,734−6.6%
20202,7360.1%
U.S. Decennial Census[7]

As of the

Latino
of any race were 1.3% (36 people).

Of the 1,282 total housing units, 1,135 (88.5%) of the houses were occupied and 147 (11.5%) were vacant. Of the occupied housing units, 755 (66.5%) were occupied by the owners (1,928 people), and 380 (33.5%) were rented (806 people). Of the 147 vacant housing units, 19 (12.9%) were for sale and 78 (53.1%) were for rent. The average number people per household was 2.41.

In the town, the population was spread out, with 1,320 (48.3%) males and 1,414 (51.7%) females. Out of the total population, there were 598 people under the age of 18 (21.9%), 193 (7.1%) between the ages 20–24, 265 (9.7%) within the ages of 25–34, 558 (20.41%) people who are between 35–49, 615 (22.5%) people are 50–64, and 425 (15.5%) people who are 65 and older.

As of 2000 Census, the median income for a household in the town was $34,313, and the median income for a family was $36,587. Males had a median income of $29,760 versus $21,406 for females. The

poverty line
, including 24.3% of those under age 18 and 8.2% of those age 65 or over.

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 18.1 square miles (47 km2), of which 17.6 square miles (46 km2) is land and 0.5 square miles (1.3 km2), or 2.70%, is water. Fair Haven is drained by the Poultney River and Castleton River.

To the north, Fair Haven is bordered by

Poultney
borders Fair Haven.

Government and politics

Fair Haven operates under a town meeting form of government with a town manager and a five-member Selectboard to supervise the local government. It has an annual operating budget of $2.9 million and 29 employees.[9]

The town lacks a mayor, but has a ceremonial mayoral election that is open to pets and animals with a paid submission to raise funds for the local elementary school. In an eighteen-candidate ballot on March 3, 2020, a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel named Murfee was elected as mayor to a one-year term.[10][11]

Transportation

The town is crossed by a freeway segment of

overlap
each other for less than a half mile just south of the town center.

Neighboring cities and towns

Sites of interest

Fair Haven has a large town green, a fountain in the center of the green, and a gazebo at the south end of the green.

Notable people

See also

  • Fair Haven (Amtrak station)

References

  1. ^ "2016 U.S. Gazetteer Files". United States Census Bureau.
  2. ^ "Census - Geography Profile: Fair Haven town, Rutland County, Vermont". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved December 29, 2021.
  3. ^ The Historic Architecture of Rutland County, Vermont State Register of Historic Places, pg. 121-140
  4. ^ Esther Munroe Swift, Vermont Place Names. pgs. 394-395
  5. ^ a b Austin J. Coolidge & John B. Mansfield, A History and Description of New England; Boston, Massachusetts 1859
  6. ^ 21 Stat. 72
  7. ^ "U.S. Decennial Census". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved May 16, 2015.
  8. ^ "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
  9. ^ "Town Manager Position". Town of Fair Haven. Retrieved March 7, 2019.
  10. ^ Guzman, Francisco; Ahmed, Saeed (March 4, 2020). "And the winner of the mayoral race in Fair Haven, Vermont, is ... a therapy dog". CNN. Retrieved June 20, 2020.
  11. La República
    (in Spanish). March 5, 2020. Retrieved June 20, 2020.
  12. ^ Lamb, Wallace E. (1940). The Lake Champlain and Lake George Valleys. Vol. 3. New York, NY: The American Historical Company, Inc. pp. 259–260.

Further reading

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