Talk:Norwich, Vermont

Proposed History section
The boundaries of Norwich were defined on July 4, 1761, when Governor Benning Wentworth of New Hampshire defined the boundaries of townships in Vermont. The first settlers reached the area in 1763 and began to clear the wilderness and erect the first hand-hewn log buildings, wintering over for the first time in 1765. Early settlements occurred along the Ompompanoosuc River. Later, the current village site became settled. The first town meeting occurred in April 1768. The first Congregational Church was founded in 1770 and a structure built in 1778. The population grew from 206 in 1771 to 1158 in 1791 and 2316 in 1830.

In 1819, Alden Partridge, the former Superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point founded the private American Literary, Scientific and Military Academy. He hoped to establish a new “American system” for training cadets that included both humanities and science topics in the curriculum, in addition to military science. In his six years of Norwich residency, Partridge achieved an academy population of nearly 500 “cadets.” He moved that school back to Middletown, Connecticut in 1825, but returned in 1835 with a charter from the U.S. Congress to found another military academy, which remained in Norwich until 1866 when it burned to the ground. The school then relocated to Northfield, Vermont, where it exists today as Norwich University.

Being railroaded
Text added said: " former Boston and Maine Railroad right of way, now owned by the State of Vermont.(ref)Vermont Agency of Transportation, Operations Division, Rail Section Website(endref)"

This is accurate, but, maybe not germane unless there is a station at which the train stops in Norwich. Other than that, it seems to me more like an airway - planes fly over in a traffic lane controlled by the FAA but it doesn't really mean much to local inhabitants. Right? If not, we need to update about 200 articles in Vermont and several thousand in the rest of the country! :) Student7 (talk) 00:36, 3 February 2010 (UTC)


 * A reasonable point, Student 7. The railroad is mentioned in the geography section, along with highways, not in industry or infrastructure. Note, however that there is a pleasure train from White River to the Montshire Museum, seasonally, and also a disused railway station. Currently the rail line runs freight, which could be loaded at any point along the line with road access. I suggest that the reference stays, since it is something that would show up on most maps. I don't think that doing so would force revision of those towns in VT that have tracks—not all articles are written in a consistent format. --User:HopsonRoad 03:22, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

Holland Brothers Residents of Norwich
Note that the Olympic skiers Jim Holland, Joe Holland and Mike Holland are Norwich residents, to the extent that they grew up there. See for instance, The New York Times March 10, 1991, The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) February 10, 1992 and Ski Jump East. --User:HopsonRoad 04:01, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
 * The problem is that, until you added this source to their articles, there was nothing on any of their articles about Norwich. Thanks for correcting this problem!  Nyttend (talk) 04:51, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I concur both with your original action and analysis. However, since the truth was otherwise, I sought to correct it!--User:HopsonRoad 14:27, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Norwich, Vermont
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Norwich, Vermont's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "nris": From Haddam, Connecticut:  From Cornish–Windsor Covered Bridge:  From Holyoke, Massachusetts:  From Suffield, Connecticut:  From Piermont Bridge:  

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 01:16, 20 June 2020 (UTC)