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GAZETTEER OF VERMONT, 



Paiit Hi. 



JUNIPER ISLAND. KILLINGTON PEAK. KIRBY. LAMOILLE COUNTY. LAMOILLE RIVER. 



Indian corn, 2,402 ; potatoes, 66,405 ; 

 hay, tons, 3,487; sugar, lbs. 31,460 ; wool, 

 10,585. Population, 1,410. 



Johnson's Gore. See Acton. 



Juniper Island is situated in lake 

 Champlain, three miles southwest of Bur- 

 lington. It contains about a dozen acres 

 of very good land, the general surface of 

 Tvhicii is elevated 30 or 40 feet above the 

 level of the lake, and it is surrounded up- 

 on all sides by a steep precipitous bank. 

 It is composed of slate rock with the seams 

 filled with calcareous spar, through which 

 runs a curious dyke of trap rock from 1.;^ 

 to 2 feet wide in a direction nearly fiom 

 west to cast. A light house was built 

 here in 1826. [Sr.e Part If, jiaire 21G.] 

 The distance from the light house to the 

 south wharf in Uurlington is 3 miles 48 

 rods. Tiie island is supposed to have re- 

 ceived its name in consequence of the 

 growth of large quantities of Juniper 

 (Juniperus communis,) upon it. 



Kei.lyvale. Nuuie altered to Low"ell, 

 Nov. 1, 1831. Sec, Lowell. 



Kempton, a New York grant, located 

 where Orange now is. 



Kii.LiNGTON. Name altered to Sher- 

 burne, Nov. 4, 1800. See Shcrhurne. 



KiLLiNCTON Peak is a summit of the 

 Green Mountains in the south part of 

 Sherburne. Its height, according to the 

 admeasurement of Capt. A. Partridge, is 

 3,1124 feet above tide water. It is the 

 most northerly of the two similar peaks 

 situated near eacli other. The south peak 

 is the highest; is in Shrewsbury, and is 

 called Slireicshury Peak. 



King LAND, a New York grnnt, located 

 where the town of Washington now is. 

 It vvas constituted the shire town of 

 Gloucester count}', by the legislature of 

 Now York, and a log jail erected, which 

 gave name to jail branch in Washington. 



Kingston. Name altered to Granville, 

 Nov. 6, 1834. See Granville. 



KiRBv, a town in the east part of Cale- 

 donia county, is in lat. 44^" 2'j' and long. 

 5° 4', and is bounded north by Burke, 

 northeast and southeast by Bradleyvale, 

 southwest by St. Johnsbury and west by 

 Lyndon. It lies 30 miles north from 

 Newbury, and 36 northeast from Mont- 

 pelier ; was granted October 20, 1786, and 

 chartered to Roswell Hopkins, by the 

 name of Hopkinsville, October 27, 1790, 

 containing 11,264 acres. Since, 2,527 

 acres have been taken from Burke and 

 annexed to this township. The settle- 

 ment of this township was commenced 

 about the year 1799, by Phinehas Page 

 and Theophilus Grout, who wore soon 

 after joined by Josiah Joslin, Jude White, 

 JonatJian f^ieach, Ebenezer Damon, Anti- 



pas Harrington, Asahel Burt, Jonathan 

 Lewis and others, principally from New 

 Hampshire and Massachusetts. The town 

 was organized August 29, 1807. Jona- 

 than Lewis was the first town clerk, and 

 Theophilus Grout was the first represen- 

 tative. The epidemic of 1813 was very 

 mortal here, 21 dying this year, many of 

 them heads of fiimilies. The town has 

 since been remarkably healthy. A small 

 Congregational church was formed here 

 about the year 1812, and now consists of 

 45 members. There are also some Bap- 

 tists, Freewill Baptists, and Methodists. 

 The surface of the town is uneven, and, 

 in many places, ledgy or swampy. There 

 arc, however, some tracts of very good 

 land. There are no considerable streams. 

 Near the centre of the township is a small 

 pond, from whicli issues a brook, on which 

 a saw mill was formerly erected. The 

 town is well watered with springs and 

 brooks. Statistics of 1840. — Horses, 1 71 ; 

 cattle, 1,061; sheep, 3,287; swine, 587; 

 wheat, bus. 2,370 ; barley, 733 ; oats, 

 7,268 ; rye, 205 ; buckwheat, 401 ; Indian 

 corn, 1,020; potatoes, 29,435 ; hay, tons, 

 1,887; sugar, lbs. 8,142; wool, 4,547. 

 Population, 520. 



Knight's GoRE,orKNOwLTON's Gore. 

 Constituted a township by the name of 

 Bakersficld, October 25, 1792. 



Knowlton's Lake, a considerable body 

 of wnler nearly on the line between Brigh- 

 ton and Wenlock, from which issues the 

 principal head branch of Clyde river. 



Lamoille County lies between lat. 44S 

 24' and 44° 46' and long. 4" 7' and 4° 34', 

 and is bounded north by Franklin and 

 Orleans counties, east by Orleans and 

 Washington, south by Washington and 

 Chittenden, and west by Cliittcnden and 

 Franklin. Its extent is al>out 27 miles 

 from north to south, and nearly the same 

 from east to west, and it contains about 420 

 square miles. It was incorporated from 

 the adjoining counties October 26, 1835. 

 Hydepark is the shire town. The county 

 is watered wholly by the river Lamoille 

 and its branches, and along this river are 

 some tine tracts of intervale. No settle- 

 ments were made in this county till after 

 tlie revolution. The supreme court sits 

 in this county on the 10th Tuesday after 

 the 4th Tuesday in January, and the 

 county court on the 2d Tuesday in June 

 and December. Statistics of 184{). — Hors- 

 es, 2,597; cattle, 16,555 ; sheep, 40,921 ; 

 swine, 7,287 ; wheat, bus. 21,070; barley, 

 477 ; oats, 70,727 ; rye, 1,604 ; buckwheat, 

 763; Indian corn, 28,483; potatoes, 472,- 

 563; hay, tons, 29,616 ; sugar, lbs. 295,- 

 476; wool, 85,-595. Population, 10,388. 



Lamoille River formerly originated 



