Editing Barnard, Vermont

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| postal_code        = 05031 (Barnard)<br/>05032 ([[Bethel, Vermont|Bethel]])<br/>05067 ([[South Pomfret, Vermont|South Pomfret]])<br/>05068 ([[South Royalton, Vermont|South Royalton]])<br/>05091 ([[Woodstock (village), Vermont|Woodstock]])
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[[File:Charles Danforth Library and Holway Community Room, Barnard Vermont.jpg|thumb|right|Charles Danforth Library and Holway Community Room]]
'''Barnard''' {{IPAc-en|ˈ|b|ɑr|n|ər|d}} is a [[New England town|town]] in [[Windsor County, Vermont|Windsor County]], [[Vermont]], United States. The population was 992 at the [[2020 United States Census|2020 census]].<ref name="Census 2020">{{Cite web |url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/profile?g=0600000US5002702725|title=Census - Geography Profile: Barnard town, Windsor County, Vermont |publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]] |access-date=December 28, 2021}}</ref>

The town has two unincorporated villages: Barnard and East Barnard, along with the hamlets of Newcombsville, Mountain Meadows, and Fort Defiance.<ref name="Plan">{{cite web|url=https://www.trorc.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Barnard_TP_FINAL_8-24-2016-1.pdf|title=Barnard Town Plan|website=trorc.org|access-date=February 5, 2024}}</ref>

== History ==
The town was chartered on July 17, 1761, by a [[New Hampshire Grants|New Hampshire Grant]]. It was named "Bernard" after one of the five grantees of the town, [[Sir Francis Bernard, 1st Baronet]], who was governor of the [[Province of Massachusetts Bay]] from 1760 to 1769. The town's name was changed to Barnard some time before 1810.<ref>[http://www.virtualvermont.com/towns/barnard.html About Barnard, Vermont], Virtual Vermont website, accessed January 23, 2015.</ref>

In 1928, [[Nobel Prize]]–winning novelist [[Sinclair Lewis]] bought Connett Place with a total {{convert|300|acre|km2}} and adjacent Chase Farm. He named the property Twin Farms and used it as a vacation house during the 1930s and 1940s with his wife [[Dorothy Thompson]].<ref name="Bushnell">{{cite news |last=Bushnell |first=Mark |date=August 27, 2017 |title=Then Again: Barnard farm lured famous couple, but couldn't bind them |url=https://vtdigger.org/2017/08/27/barnard-farm-lured-famous-couple-couldnt-bind/ |work=VT Digger |location=Montpelier, VT}}</ref>

In 1941, German playwright [[Carl Zuckmayer]], a refugee from Nazi Germany whom Dorothy Thompson had helped to get into the US, rented Backwoods Farm, with its farmhouse from 1783 nowadays owned by Hannah Kahn<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.thevermontstandard.com/2010/11/45-year-wait-ends-at-the-zuckmayer-farm/ |title=45-Year Wait Ends at the Zuckmayer Farm &#124; the Vermont Standard |access-date=November 4, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160920030536/http://www.thevermontstandard.com/2010/11/45-year-wait-ends-at-the-zuckmayer-farm/ |archive-date=September 20, 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and a total {{convert|180|acre|km2}}, from Joseph Ward (of Maynes & Ward hardware store on Main Street in [[Woodstock, Vermont]]) for 50 dollars a month. Zuckmayer worked this property as a farmer until 1946 and wrote the play [[Des Teufels General (play)|''Des Teufels General'']] (''The Devil's General'') there. His autobiography ''A Part of Myself'' (1966) deals extensively with these years. Zuckmayer's wife Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer also wrote a memoir of their time in Barnard: ''The Farm in the [[Green Mountains]]'' (''Die Farm in den grünen Bergen'').<ref name=Zuckmayer>{{cite news |last=Bittinger |first=Cindy |date=March 27, 2008 |title=Vermont Women: Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer |url=http://www.vpr.net/news_detail/79860/ |publisher=Vermont Public Radio |location=Colchester, VT}}</ref>

==Geography==
According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the town has a total area of {{cvt|48.9|sqmi}}, of which 48.7 are land and 0.2 is water.

==Demographics==
{{US Census population
|1790= 673
|1800= 1236
|1810= 1648
|1820= 1691
|1830= 1881
|1840= 1774
|1850= 1647
|1860= 1487
|1870= 1208
|1880= 1191
|1890= 918
|1900= 840
|1910= 737
|1920= 653
|1930= 584
|1940= 486
|1950= 439
|1960= 435
|1970= 569
|1980= 790
|1990= 872
|2000= 958
|2010= 947
|2020= 992
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|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census.html |title=U.S. Decennial Census |publisher=United States Census Bureau |accessdate=May 16, 2015 }}</ref>
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As of the [[census]] of 2000, there were 958 people, 383 households, and 276 families residing in the town. The [[population density]] was 19.7 people per square mile (7.6/km<sup>2</sup>). There were 629 housing units at an average density of 12.9 per square mile (5.0/km<sup>2</sup>). The racial makeup of the town was 98.43% [[White (U.S. Census)|White]], 0.42% [[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic or Latino]], 0.31% [[Asian Americans|Asian]] and 1.04% from two or more races.<ref name="GR2" />

There were 383 households, out of which 29.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 61.4% were [[Marriage|married couples]] living together, 6.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 27.7% were non-families. 21.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 5.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.50 and the average family size was 2.84.

In the town, the population was spread out, with 23.4% under the age of 18, 5.1% from 18 to 24, 26.4% from 25 to 44, 32.0% from 45 to 64, and 13.0% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 42 years. For every 100 females, there were 93.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 97.8 males.

The median income for a household in the town was $45,787, and the median income for a family was $48,125. Males had a median income of $29,485 versus $25,385 for females. The [[per capita income]] for the town was $25,354. About 4.7% of families and 6.3% of the population were below the [[poverty line]], including 10.0% of those under age 18 and 2.4% of those age 65 or over.

==Silver Lake State Park==
[[Silver Lake State Park (Vermont)|Silver Lake State Park]], encompassing the northern shoreline of Silver Lake, was established in 1955 when some land with shore frontage was donated to the state by John McDill of Woodstock, Margaret Crosby of Barnard, and Richard H. Field of [[Boston]]. Silver Lake had originally been called Stebbings' Pond after Benjamin Stebbings who owned land at the outlet where the village now stands. Later the lake became known as Barnard Pond. In 1869, it was renamed Silver Lake.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vtstateparks.com/htm/silver.htm |title=Vermont State Parks - Silver Lake State Park |accessdate=August 14, 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100426183643/http://www.vtstateparks.com/htm/silver.htm |archivedate=April 26, 2010 }}</ref>

==Education==
Barnard Academy is a public elementary school located on [[Vermont Route 12|Route 12]]. It has educational programs from pre-kindergarten through sixth grade. Barnard Academy is part of the Windsor Central Supervisory Union.

== Notable people ==
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* [[Andrew J. Aikens]], newspaper editor<ref>{{cite news |date=April 16, 1909 |title=Andrew J. Aikens: Born 1828, Died 1909 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6731563/andrew-j-aikens-1828-1909-obit/ |work=Hinds County Gazette |location=Raymond, MS |page=6 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>
* [[Asa Aikens]], Justice of the [[Vermont Supreme Court]]<ref>{{cite book |last=Wiley |first=Edgar J. |date=1917 |title=Catalogue of Officers and Students of Middlebury College |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TapBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA10 |location=Middlebury, VT |publisher=Middlebury College |page=10 |ref={{sfnRef|''Catalogue of Officers and Students of Middlebury College''}}}}</ref>
* [[Sinclair Lewis]], Nobel Prize-winning novelist, short story writer, and playwright<ref name="Bushnell"/>
* [[Mark Mitchell (Vermont politician)|Mark Mitchell]], architect and politician<ref>{{cite news |date=November 10, 2011 |title=Obituary, Mark Mitchell |url=https://www.ourherald.com/articles/mark-mitchell-2/ |work=White River Valley Herald |location=Randolph, VT}}</ref>
* [[Susanne Hoeber Rudolph]], American author, political thinker and educationist<ref name="Nolan">{{cite news |last=Nolan |first=Sarah |date=January 25, 2014 |title=Two University of Chicago faculty members win India's prestigious Padma Bhushan Award |url=https://news.uchicago.edu/story/two-university-chicago-faculty-members-win-indias-prestigious-padma-bhushan-award |work=U Chicago News |location=Chicago, IL |publisher=University of Chicago}}</ref>
* [[Lloyd I. Rudolph]], American author, political thinker and educationist<ref name="Nolan"/>
* [[Dorothy Thompson]], journalist<ref name="Bushnell"/>
* [[Tulius Cicero Tupper]], Major General of the [[Mississippi State Troops]] in the [[American Civil War]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Newton |first=William Monroe |date=1928 |title=History of Barnard, Vermont: With Family Genealogies, 1761-1927 |volume=II |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rbgMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA402 |location=Burlington, VT |publisher=Free Press Printing |page=402 |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref>
* [[Carl Zuckmayer]], German writer and playwright<ref name=Zuckmayer/>

==See also==
* [[Aiken Stand Complex]]
* [[Barnard General Store]]

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==References==
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==External links==
* {{Commons category-inline|Barnard, Vermont}}
* [https://barnardvt.us/ Official website]

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