Editing Barnet, Vermont

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'''Barnet''' is a [[New England town|town]] in [[Caledonia County, Vermont|Caledonia County]], [[Vermont]], United States. The population was 1,663 at the [[2020 United States Census|2020 census]].<ref name="Census 2020">{{cite web| url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/profile?g=0600000US5000502875| title=Census - Geography Profile: Barnet town, Caledonia County, Vermont| publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]| access-date=December 28, 2021}}</ref> Barnet contains the locations of Barnet Center, East Barnet, [[McIndoe Falls, Vermont|McIndoe Falls]], Mosquitoville, [[Passumpsic, Vermont|Passumpsic]] and West Barnet. The main settlement of [[Barnet (CDP), Vermont|Barnet]] is recorded as a [[census-designated place]] by the U.S. Census Bureau, with a population of 127 at the 2020 census.<ref name="Census 2020 CDP">{{cite web| url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/profile?g=1600000US5002800| title=Census - Geography Profile: Barnet CDP, Vermont| publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]| access-date=December 28, 2021}}</ref>

==History==
[[File:Erastus Fairbanks.jpg|thumb|125px|left|Erastus Fairbanks]]
The town of Barnet, Vermont, originally took its name from the town of [[Chipping Barnet|Barnet]], [[England]].<ref>{{cite book| last=Jones-Baker| first=Doris| title=Hertfordshire in History: Papers Presented to Lionel Munby| publisher=University of Hertfordshire Press| year=2004| pages=127}}</ref>

On September 16, 1763, the town received its charter from the royal governor of [[New Hampshire]], [[Benning Wentworth]].

The first European descendants to work the land and stay in the town were three brothers, Daniel, Jacob, and Elijah Hall, along with Jonathan Fowler. Their homestead was built along the [[Connecticut River]] and to the north near McIndoe Falls. Elijah Hall built the first house in [[Caledonia County, Vermont|Caledonia County]] in Barnet, near the base of Stevens Falls.<ref>{{cite book| first=WPA for the State of Vermont| last=Federal Writers Project| title=Vermont: A Guide to the Green Mountain State| publisher=The Riverside Press| location=Boston| year=1937| pages=177}}</ref> Colonel Alexander Harvey came from [[Dundee]], [[Scotland]], for those in the town who wished to find new land in the American colonies. Despite losing contact with almost all of them after the [[American Revolution]] broke out, he decided to stay, claiming {{convert|7000|acre|km2}} of land and a lake, now known as [[Harvey's Lake (Vermont)|Harvey's Lake]].<ref>{{cite book| last=Child| first=Hamilton| title=Gazetteer of Caledonia and Essex Counties, VT: 1764–1887| publisher=Hamilton Child| year=1887| pages=133–151}}</ref>

The five early villages within the town of Barnet were:<ref>[http://genealogytrails.com/ver/caledonia/history/barnet.html Early Barnet.] Chapter I. Pages 1-6. History of Barnet, Vermont, From the Outbreak of the French and Indian War to Present Time With Genealogical Records of Many Families. By Frederic Palmer Wells. Barnet History Association, Burlington, Vermont, Free Press Printing Co., 1923. Transcribed for Genealogy Trails by Nancy Piper. Accessed March 2021.</ref>
* [[Barnet (CDP), Vermont|Barnet village]] (formerly called Stevens Village) located at the falls in the river
* [[McIndoe Falls, Vermont|McIndoe Falls]] (also referred to as McIndoes) near the southeast corner of the town lying along a terrace at the falls
* [[Passumpsic, Vermont|Passumpsic]] village (formerly called Kendall's Mills) in the northeast part of the town and spreading into the adjoining town of [[Waterford, Vermont|Waterford]]
* East Barnet (in 1875 named Norrisville),<ref>[https://shop.old-maps.com/vermont/towns/caledonia-co-vt-1875-town/barnet-west-barnet-norrisville-and-mcindoes-falls-villages-vermont-1875-old-town-map-reprint-caledonia-co/ Barnet, West Barnet, Norrisville, and McIndoes Falls Villages, Vermont 1875. Source Map - ''County Atlas of Caledonia, Vermont 1875'' by F.W. Beers. Old Town Map Reprint. Accessed 20 March 2021.]</ref> near the mouth of the river just before it enters the deep gorge
* West Barnet at the outlet of Harvey Lake, on the road from Barnet village to [[Peacham, Vermont|Peacham]].

Additional hamlets that have arisen within the town are:
* Mosquitoville, located south of Harvey Lake
* Barnet Center, on the road from Barnet village to West Barnet.

The main settlement of Barnet village has grown in population and is often referred to as "the town", yet the town itself includes the populated places listed above.
[[File:Horace Fairbanks.jpg|thumb|125px|left|Horace Fairbanks]]
Two governors of the state of [[Vermont]] were from Barnet: [[Erastus Fairbanks]], who served two terms from 1852–1853 and 1860–1861, and his son, [[Horace Fairbanks]], who served from 1876 to 1878. The Fairbanks family left Barnet for nearby St. Johnsbury, where they were known for manufacturing the first [[Weighing scale|platform scale]].<ref>{{cite book| last=Fairbanks| first=Lorenzo Sayles| title=Genealogy of the Fairbanks Family in America 1633–1897| url=https://archive.org/details/genealogyfairba00fairgoog| publisher=American Printing and Engraving Company| location=Boston| year=1897}}</ref>

Ocean explorer and [[scuba diving|scuba]] inventor [[Jacques Cousteau]]<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EY2JFNAnma8C&q=cousteau+%22harvey%27s+lake%22&pg=PA21|title=My Father, the Captain: My Life with Jacques Cousteau|last=Cousteau|first=Jean-Michel|date=March 26, 2018|publisher=National Geographic Society|page=21|via=Google Books|isbn=9781426206832}}</ref> had influential experiences on Harvey's Lake as a young boy in the early 1920s. While attending a summer camp he experimented with staying underwater by breathing through hollow reeds found in the lake shallows. Though he could not yet swim well, this allowed him to stay underwater for extended periods.

===Religion===
====Christianity====
On January 24, 1784, the town of Barnet voted unanimously to make the [[Presbyterian]] denomination the official one of the town, as it was "founded on the word of God as expressed in the Confession of Faith, Catechisms Longer and Shorter, with the form of church government agreed upon by the [[Westminster Assembly|Assembly of Divines at Westminster]], and practiced by the [[Church of Scotland]]."{{Citation needed|date=May 2010}}

The Passumpsic Calvinistic [[Baptist]] church was first created by a council of neighboring churches on July 1, 1812. The village of Passumpsic was chosen due to its centralized location.
[[File:Barnet Village Church 100 Church Street downtown Barnet VT September 2021.jpg|alt=Barnet Village Church|thumb|Formerly Barnet Congregational Church, now Barnet Village Church.]]
The First Congregational Church of Barnet was created by Reverend David Sutherland in September 1829 after a new brick church had been built. Its first permanent minister was the Reverend Henry Fairbanks. The church which stands now was constructed in 1854.

The earliest [[Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America|Reformed Presbyterian Church]] in Vermont was organized in [[Ryegate, Vermont|Ryegate]] in October 1798. In the early part of the nineteenth century, a group of members in Barnet built a new meeting house on the land formerly owned by Walter Harvey, and the property has gone by that name since then. The longest-tenured minister was Daniel C. Faris, who served the congregation from 1873 until 1923.<ref>http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vtcbarne/barnet_churches.htm#WH Ecclesiastical History of the town of Barnet, Vermont</ref> The congregation's Barnet branch became a separate congregation on July 9, 1872,<ref>Glasgow, W. Melancthon. [http://www.rpcna.org/assets/pdf/Glasgow%20book/Glasgow%2016.pdf ''A History of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in America''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080827235016/http://rpcna.org/assets/pdf/Glasgow%20book/Glasgow%2016.pdf |date=August 27, 2008 }}, part 8. [[Baltimore]]: Hill and Harvey, 1888, p. 400.  Accessed on April 24, 2008.</ref> and it continued until disorganization in 1970.<ref>McBurney, Charles and Beth. ''Reformed Presbyterian Ministers 1950–1993''. [[Pittsburgh]]: Crown and Covenant, 1994, p. 225.</ref>

====Buddhism====

In 1970, upon his arrival in North America, [[Chögyam Trungpa]] established the teaching center "Tail of the Tiger" (now [[Karmê Chöling]]). It was consolidated with others in [[Colorado]] in 1973.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Born in Tibet, Again: The Exile of the 12th Trungpa Tulku, by Charles Carreon     |url=http://www.american-buddha.com/bornintibetagain.htm|access-date=January 10, 2021|website=www.american-buddha.com}}</ref>

==Geography==
[[File:Fall Foliage in Barnet Vermont.jpg|thumb|left|Fall foliage in early October]]
According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the town has a total area of {{convert|112.9|sqkm|order=flip}}, of which {{convert|109.4|sqkm|order=flip}} is land and {{convert|3.4|sqkm|order=flip}}, or 3.04%, is water.<ref name="Census 2010">{{cite web| url=http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_DP/G001/0600000US5000502875| archive-url=https://archive.today/20200212161438/http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_DP/G001/0600000US5000502875| url-status=dead| archive-date=February 12, 2020| title=Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Barnet town, Caledonia County, Vermont| publisher=U.S. Census Bureau, American Factfinder| access-date=February 4, 2013}}</ref> The Barnet CDP, comprising the town center, has a total area of {{convert|1.66|sqkm|order=flip}}, of which {{convert|1.61|sqkm|order=flip}} is land and {{convert|0.05|sqkm|order=flip}}, or 2.96%, is water.<ref name="Census 2010 CDP">{{cite web| url=http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_DP/G001/1600000US5002800| archive-url=https://archive.today/20200212200300/http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_DP/G001/1600000US5002800| url-status=dead| archive-date=February 12, 2020| title=Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Barnet CDP, Vermont| publisher=U.S. Census Bureau, American Factfinder| access-date=February 6, 2013}}</ref>

The eastern border of the town is the [[Connecticut River]], which is also the boundary between Vermont and [[New Hampshire]]. The [[Passumpsic River]] enters the Connecticut at East Barnet. Neighboring communities are [[Ryegate, Vermont|Ryegate]] to the south, [[Groton, Vermont|Groton]] to the southwest, [[Peacham, Vermont|Peacham]] to the west, [[Danville, Vermont|Danville]] to the northwest, [[St. Johnsbury, Vermont|St. Johnsbury]] to the north, and [[Waterford, Vermont]], to the northeast. Across the Connecticut River is the New Hampshire town of [[Monroe, New Hampshire|Monroe]].

Barnet is traversed from north to south by [[Interstate 91]], with access to the town at Exit 18, West Barnet Road. [[U.S. Route 5]], a two-lane highway, parallels I-91 and passes through the town center.

The highest point in town is {{convert|641|m|ft|adj=on|order=flip}} Roy Mountain in the southern part of town, east of [[Harvey's Lake (Vermont)|Harvey Lake]].

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This [[climate|climatic]] region is typified by large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot summers and cold winters.  According to the [[Köppen Climate Classification]] system, Barnet has a [[humid continental climate]], abbreviated "Dfb" on climate maps.<ref name="weatherbase">{{Cite web |url=http://www.weatherbase.com/weather/weather.php3?s=440534&cityname=Barnet-Vermont-United-States-of-America |title=Climate summary of Barnet, Vermont |access-date=May 15, 2015 }}</ref>
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==Demographics==
{{US Census population
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|1800= 858
|1810= 1301
|1820= 1488
|1830= 1764
|1840= 2030
|1850= 2521
|1860= 1994
|1870= 1945
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|1900= 1763
|1910= 1707
|1920= 1685
|1930= 2604
|1940= 1596
|1950= 1425
|1960= 1445
|1970= 1342
|1980= 1338
|1990= 1415
|2000= 1690
|2010= 1708
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As of the [[census]]<ref name="GR2" /> of 2000, there were 1,690 people, 638 households, and 440 families residing in the town.  The [[population density]] was 39.9 people per square mile (15.4/km<sup>2</sup>).  There were 831 housing units at an average density of 19.6 per square mile (7.6/km<sup>2</sup>).  The racial makeup of the town was 96.75% [[White (U.S. Census)|White]], 0.71% [[African American (U.S. Census)|African American]], 1.01% [[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]], 0.47% [[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]], 0.06% from [[Race (United States Census)|other races]], and 1.01% from two or more races. [[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]] of any race were 0.36% of the population.

There were 638 households, out of which 32.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 58.5% were [[Marriage|married couples]] living together, 7.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 30.9% were non-families. 26.0% of all households were made up of individuals, and 12.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.  The average household size was 2.57 and the average family size was 3.11.

In the town, the population was spread out, with 26.7% under the age of 18, 6.5% from 18 to 24, 25.2% from 25 to 44, 27.5% from 45 to 64, and 14.0% who were 65 years of age or older.  The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females, there were 100.0 males.  For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 97.1 males.

The median income for a household in the town was $36,089, and the median income for a family was $43,403. Males had a median income of $32,768 versus $23,173 for females. The [[per capita income]] for the town was $17,690.  About 7.0% of families and 12.1% of the population were below the [[poverty line]], including 17.4% of those under age 18 and 11.2% of those age 65 or over.

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* [[George H. Amidon]], Vermont State Treasurer<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nekg-vt.com/dir/dir_barnet-1939.php |title=Barnet Business Directory, 1939 |last=Boyko |first=Janice |date=2010 |website=nekg-vt.com |publisher=NEKG: Northeast Kingdom Genealogy |location=Simsbury, CT |access-date=May 25, 2010}}</ref>
* [[Neko Case]], musician<ref>{{cite news |last=Mapes |first=Jillian |date=May 3, 2018 |title=Neko Case on Her New Album, Her House Burning Down, and Her Futuristic Feminism |url=https://pitchfork.com/features/interview/neko-case-on-her-new-album-her-house-burning-down-and-her-futuristic-feminism/ |work=Pitchfork Music Festival |publisher=Condé Nast |location=Chicago, IL}}</ref>
* [[Taylor Coppenrath]], professional basketball player<ref>{{cite news |last=Hohler |first=Bob |date=March 15, 2005 |title=Vt. town hangs on hero's every move: Coppenrath one of a kind |url=http://archive.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/03/15/vt_town_hangs_on_heros_every_move_coppenrath_one_of_a_kind?pg=full |work=Boston Globe |location=Boston, MA}}</ref>
* [[Jacques Cousteau]], ocean explorer and SCUBA inventor. Summer resident who made his first dive at [[Harvey's Lake (Vermont)|Harvey's Lake]]<ref>{{cite news |agency=United Press International |date=September 1, 1982 |title= Explorer Jacques Cousteau, who now spends his time searching the ocean's depths, has pledged $13,500 to protect the small Vermont lake where he got his start many years ago |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1981/09/01/Explorer-Jacques-Cousteau-who-now-spends-his-time-searching/9575368164800/ |work=UPI Archives |location=Boca Raton, FL |access-date=May 25, 2018}}</ref>
* [[Jay Craven]], filmmaker; [[Marlboro College]] film professor<ref>{{cite book |last=Strickland |first=Ron |date=1998 |title=Vermonters: Oral Histories from Down Country to the Northeast Kingdom |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YR8SmAsM5KYC&pg=PA30 |location=Hanover, NH |publisher=University Press of New England |page=30|isbn=9780874518672 }}</ref>
* [[Ralph Flanders]], mechanical engineer, industrialist and politician<ref>{{cite book |last=Walker |first=William T. |date=2011 |title=McCarthyism and the Red Scare: A Reference Guide |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I8BhzCaTAsoC&pg=PA109 |location=Santa Barbara, CA |publisher=ABC-CLIO |page=109 |isbn=978-1-59884-437-5}}</ref>
* [[Luis Guzman]], actor<ref>{{cite book |last=Berumen |first=Frank Javier Garcia |date=2014 |title=Latino Image Makers in Hollywood |url=https://archive.org/details/latinoimagemaker0000beru |url-access=registration |location=Jefferson, NC |publisher=McFarland & Company |page=[https://archive.org/details/latinoimagemaker0000beru/page/306 306] |isbn=978-0-7864-7432-5}}</ref>
* [[Chris Hedges]], author<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ancestry.com/ |title=Vermont Birth Records, 1909-2008 for Christopher Lynn Hedges |last=Bemis |first=W. A., Town Clerk |date=October 10, 1956 |website=Ancestry.com |publisher=Ancestry, LLC |location=Provo, UT |url-access=subscription  |access-date=May 25, 2018}}</ref>
* [[Henry Clay Ide]], statesman and judge<ref>{{cite magazine |date=1903 |title=Biography, Henry Clay Ide |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xLETAAAAYAAJ&q=%22henry+clay+ide+was+born+in+barnet%22 |magazine=The Vermonter |volume=9 |location=St. Albans, VT |publisher=C. S. Forbes |page=62}}</ref>
* [[Anne Morrow Lindbergh]], author and aviator; died in Passumpsic (2001)<ref>{{Cite journal |first=Scott |last=Wheeler |date=June 2010 |title=Search for /Charles Lindbergh's Kidnapped Son comes to Vermont |journal=Vermont's Northland Journal |volume=9 |issue=3 |pages=14–15 }}</ref>
* [[Harvey T. Moore]], Vermont and Wisconsin state legislator, was born in Barnet<ref>'Wisconsin Blue Book 1875,' Biographical Sketch of Harvey Thomas More, p. 312</ref>
* [[Benjamin Franklin Stevens]], bibliographer<ref>{{cite book |last=Fenn |first=George Manville |date=1903 |title=Memoir of Benjamin Franklin Stevens |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044086347093;view=1up;seq=17 |location=London, England |publisher=Chiswick Press |page=1 |ref={{sfnRef|''Memoir of Benjamin Franklin Stevens''}}}}</ref>
* [[Henry Stevens (bibliographer)|Henry Stevens]], bibliographer{{sfn|''Memoir of Benjamin Franklin Stevens''|page=3}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://barnetvt.org/ Town of Barnet official website]
* [http://www.rootsweb.com/~vtcbarne/barnet.htm Barnet Genealogy page]

{{Geographic location
 |Centre    = Barnet
 |North     = [[St. Johnsbury, Vermont|St. Johnsbury]]
 |Northeast = [[Waterford, Vermont|Waterford]]
 |East      = [[Littleton, New Hampshire]]
 |Southeast = [[Monroe, New Hampshire]]
 |South     = [[Ryegate, Vermont|Ryegate]]
 |Southwest = [[Groton, Vermont|Groton]]
 |West      = [[Peacham, Vermont|Peacham]]
 |Northwest = [[Danville, Vermont|Danville]]
}}

{{Caledonia County, Vermont}}
{{Connecticut River}}

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[[Category:Towns in Vermont]]
[[Category:Vermont populated places on the Connecticut River]]
[[Category:Towns in Caledonia County, Vermont]]