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Barnard, Vermont

Barnard, Vermont
Town
Town hall
Town hall
Location in Windsor County and the state of Vermont.
Location in Windsor County and the state of Vermont.
Barnard, Vermont is located in the US
Barnard, Vermont
Barnard, Vermont
Location in the United States
Coordinates: 43°44′9″N 72°36′9″W / 43.73583°N 72.60250°W / 43.73583; -72.60250Coordinates: 43°44′9″N 72°36′9″W / 43.73583°N 72.60250°W / 43.73583; -72.60250
Country United States
State Vermont
County Windsor
Area
 • Total 48.9 sq mi (126.6 km2)
 • Land 48.7 sq mi (126.1 km2)
 • Water 0.2 sq mi (0.5 km2)
Elevation 1,181 ft (360 m)
Population (2010)
 • Total 947
 • Density 19/sq mi (7.5/km2)
Time zone Eastern (EST) (UTC-5)
 • Summer (DST) EDT (UTC-4)
ZIP code 05031
Area code(s) 802
FIPS code 50-02725
GNIS feature ID 1462033

Barnard /ˈbɑːrnərd/ is a town in Windsor County, Vermont, United States. The population was 947 at the 2010 census.

The town was chartered on July 17, 1761, by a New Hampshire Grant and named "Bernard" after the second-listed grantee of the town (with five others), Sir Francis Bernard, 1st Baronet, and since 1760 Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay. The town's name was changed to Barnard some time before 1810.

In 1928, Nobel Prize-winning novelist Sinclair Lewis bought Connett Place with a total 300 acres (1.2 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.

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 and a total 180 acres (0.73 km2), from Joseph Ward (of Maynes & Ward hardware store on Main Street in ) for 50 dollars a month. Zuckmayer worked this property as a farmer until 1946 and wrote the 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).


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