Essex Junction, Vermont - Essex High School, Chittenden-6-2 Vermont Representative District, 2002-2012, Essex Junction (Paperback)

Chapters: Essex High School, Chittenden-6-2 Vermont Representative District, 2002-2012, Essex Junction. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Essex Junction, Vermont - Modern history has been affected in a major way by the presence of the IBM corporation which chose the village as a site in 1957. In 2003, as a result of a nationally publicized suicide of a 13-year old, Vermont, and other states, passed legislation curtailing cyber-bullying. In 1957, IBM leased a 40,000 square feet (3,700 m) facility for its new Data Processing Division. By the end of the year, there were 500 workers. In 1969, the plant expanded to 820,000 square feet (76,000 m). In 1982, employment reached an all-time high of 8,000. In 2007, the town listers dropped the value of the plant from a high of $147.5 million to $104 million. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 4.85 square miles (12.6 km), of which, 4.76 square miles (12.3 km) is land and 0.09 square miles (0.23 km) (1.86%) is water. As of the census of 2000, there were 8,591 people, 3,409 households, and 2,253 families residing in the village. The population density was 1,804.1 people per square mile (696.8/km ). There were 3,501 housing units at an average density of 735.2/sq mi (284.0/km ). The racial makeup of the village was 95.55% White with a large proportion of those 53% being of Irish descent, 0.69% African American, 0.24% Native American, 2.36% Asian, 0.29% from other races, and 0.86% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.14% of the population. There were 3,409 households out of which 35.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 53.4% were married couples living together, 9.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 33.9% w...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=137287