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Essex, VT - History
We would like to provide the residents of Essex a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Essex Home page. The Essex Home page provides as much information as possible on Essex. Knowing Essex’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Essex’s Home page, you will also find Essex’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Essex has a population of 21672. 47.7% of Essex’s inhabitants are Male, and 52.3 are female. 54.8% of Essex is married and 70.6% own their own home. The Average Home price is $315,559, and the average rent is $1,276. Household median income in Essex is $86,212, and the individual median income is $40,861. Essex’s Ethnic is the following: White(86.7%), Asian(5.6%), Multiple(4.5%), Black(1.9%), Hispanic(1.7%), Other(1.1%), Native(0.1%).
The town was incorporated on June 7, 1763, named after the Earl of Essex.The Village of Essex Junction was formed—within the town of Essex—on November 15, 1892. The village was formed to provide services (such as sidewalks, water, and sewers) to the villagers that the rest of the, mostly rural, town citizens did not want, and did not want to pay for. As the town outside the village developed, they gradually added similar services for themselves, and by 1958, the first hints of merger showed up in a voter petition.
Since then a series of votes (often contentious) had defeated or passed merger in each community, but never at the same time in both (which was required by the state legislature for them to sign off on the merger). This temporarily changed on November 7, 2006, when merger passed in the town as a whole, and in the village.
The town as a whole (including the village) got to vote once on the merger, and the village, separately, got to vote in a second ballot to accept the merger if it passed the townwide vote. This was confusing enough that the regional paper misreported the results as a defeat of the merger, based solely on the vote results outside the village.
The next day the correct results were reported in both the town's paper, and as a correction in the regional paper.On December 6, 2006, a petition to reconsider the merger was submitted to the town. The petition contained signatures totaling more than 5 percent of registered voters, which is the threshold required to force a re-vote.
The revote was held on January 23, 2007, with a result that overturned the merger by 191 votes, rejecting the current merger proposal.If the results had stood, a multi-year merger process would have resulted in a new "Town of Essex Junction" replacing the current governments of the town of Essex and the village of Essex Junction. On 2 November, 2021 voters in the village of Essex Junction did vote to separate from the town of Essex, citing an unfair tax burden.
The vote was 3,070 to 411 in favor of separation. Essex Junction separated on 1 July, 2022.
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