Part III. 



GAZETTEER OF VERMONT. 



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DUMMERSTON. — DUNDKR ROCK. 



DUNMORE LAKK. 



mountain. Equinox mountain lies partly 

 in the southwest corner. In this town- 

 ship are several remarkable caverns. One 

 in the south part, is entered by an aper- 

 ture nearly 10 feet square, " which opens 

 into a spacious room nine rods in length 

 and four wide. At the further end of 

 this apartment are two openings, whicJi 

 are about 30 feet apart. The cue on the 

 riglit is three feet from the floor, and is 

 about 20 inches by si.x feet in length. It 

 leads to an apartment 20 feet long, 12 

 wide and 12 high. From this room there 

 is an opening sufficient to admit a man to 

 pass througji sideways about 20 feet, 

 when it opens into a large hall 80 feet 

 long and 30 wide. The other aperture 

 from the first room is about as large as a 

 common door, and leads to an apartment 

 12 feet square, out of which is a passage 

 to another considerable room, in which is 

 a spring of water. This cavern is said to 

 have been explored 40 or 50 rods without 

 arriving at the end." Considerable quan- 

 tities of marble are wrought here. The 

 town contains three meeting l^ouses, four 

 stores, one grist and eight saw mills. 

 Statistics of 1840. Horses, 253 ; cattle, 

 1,723; sheep, 7,802 ; swine, 590 ; wheat, 

 bus. 1,321 ; oats, 7,830 ; rye, 906 ; buck- 

 wheat, 1,013: Indian corn, 5,59.5; pota- 

 toes, 31,018 ; hay, tons, 4,080 ; sugar, lbs. 

 17,560 ; wool, 18,030. Population, 1432. 



Dover, a township in the central part 

 of Windham county, is in lat. 42° 58' and 

 long. 4° 13', and is bounded north by 

 Wardsborough, east by Newfane, south 

 by Wilmington and a part of Marlbor- 

 ough, and west by Somerset. It was 

 granted November 7, J 780, as a part of 

 Wardsborough. October 18, 1788, Wards- 

 borough was divided into two districts, 

 called the north and soiith district. In 

 1810, the south district was constituted a 

 separate town by the name of Dover. 

 Dover is 13 miles northwest from Brattle- 

 borough, and 18 northeast from Benning- 

 ton. For an account of the settlement of 

 this township, sec Wardshorough. There 

 are no considerable streams in this town- 

 ship. Several branches of West river 

 and a branch of Deerfield river rise here, 

 and afford several mill privileges. Ser- 

 pentine, and chlorite slate, are found in this 

 township ; and there arc here two grist 

 and four saw mills. Statistics of 1840. 

 Horses, 123 ; cattle, 1,849 ; sheep, 1,893; 

 swine, 760 ; wheat, bus. 1,194 ; barley, 

 274 ; oats, 4,106 ; rye, 477 ; buckwheat, 

 85 ; Indian corn, 17,715 ; potatoes, 35,986 ; 

 ha)', tons, 3,140 ; sugar, lbs. 22,678 ; wool, 

 4,104. Population, 729. 



Draper. See Wilmington. 



DuMMERSTON, a post townsliip in the 



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eastern part of Windham county, is in 

 lat. 42" 56' and long. 4'^ 28', and is bound- 

 ed north by Putney and Brookline, east 

 by Connecticut river, which separates it 

 from Westmoreland, N. H., south by Brat- 

 tleborough, and west by a part of Marl- 

 borough and Newfane. It is 92 miles 

 south from Montpelier, and 31 east from 

 Bennington, and was chartered Decem- 

 ber 26, 1753. This was one of the first 

 settled townships in the state, but we 

 have not been able to obtain a particular 

 account of the circumstances attending 

 its settlement and subsequent history. It 

 contained, in 1791, upwards of 1500 in- 

 habitants. A Congregational church was 

 early formed here, over which the Rev. 

 Thomas Farrar was settled Aug. 24, 1779, 

 who continued here about 4 years. The 

 Rev. Aaron Crosby was settled in 1784, 

 and continued 20 years. The Rev. Hosea 

 Beckley was settled March 2, 1808, and 

 continued till Oct. 15, 1837. The Rev. 

 Nelson Barber, the present minister, was 

 installed May 20, 1840. Of the other 

 denominations we have no particulars. 

 This township is watered by West river, 

 which enters it from Newf\me, and passes 

 through it in a southeasterly direction in- 

 to Brattleborough, and by several small 

 streams, some of which fall into this riv- 

 er and others into the Connecticut, afford- 

 ing a considerable number of good sites 

 fo? mills. The surface of the township is 

 broken. The rocks, which constitute 

 Black mountain, near the centre of the 

 township, are an immense body of gran- 

 ite. A range of argillaceous slate passes 

 through this township from south to north, 

 and is considerably quarried for roof slate 

 and grave stones. Primitive limestone 

 occur^s in beds. Specimens of trcmolite, 

 limpid quartz and galena, or the sulphuret 

 of lead, are also found here. There are 

 2 stores, and 5 grist and 5 saw mills. Sta- 

 tistics of 1840. Horses, 249 ; cattle, 

 2,036 ; sheep, 3,447 : swine, 877 ; wheat, 

 bus. 907; barley, 101 ; oats, 11,350; rye, 

 1,729; buckwheat, 82; Indian corn, 8,270; 

 potatoes, 27,950; hav, tons, 3,090 ; sugar, 

 lbs. 7220 ; wool, 5713. Population, 1263. 



DuNCANSBORouGH. The name of this 

 township was altered to Newport, Octo- 

 ber 30, 1816. See JVeivport. 



DuNDER Rock is situated in Lake 

 Champlain, nearly midway between Ju- 

 niper Island and Pottier's Point, and 2 m. 

 226 rods in a right line from the south 

 wharf in Burlington. It is a mass of na- 

 ked slate rock rising some 20 feet above 

 the water. Origin of the name not ascer- 

 tained. 



DuNMORE Lake is about four miles 

 long and three fourths of a mile wide. It 



