Part 111. 



GAZETTEER OF VERMONT. 



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MOOSE RIVER. 



MORETOVVN. 



MUKGAN. 



clothing or fulling mills, one starch fac- 

 tory, and 3 druo-gist's stores. There are 

 12 India and English goods stores, and 

 the amount of the sales of imported goods 

 annually sold by them is unusually great 

 for a village of its size, amounting on an 

 average, as one of the most intelligent of 

 its merchants has been at the pains of as- 

 certaining, to the sum of |!2n(),000, at a 

 safe estimate, not including the sales of 

 the 3 stove and hollow-ware stores in this 

 place. Montpclier village, indeed, is em- 

 phatically a business place, and the in- 

 habitants, who began without capital, and 

 had to be the artificers of their own for- 

 tunes, are strongly characterized as a 

 community by their habits of industry 

 and economy, and their discountenance 

 of all lounging and idleness. There is 1 

 book bindery, a manufactory of piano 

 fortes and other musical instruments, to- 

 gether with a large proportion of mechan- 

 ics' shops of nearly every kind to be 

 found in the country. A substantial arch 

 bridge of about 100 ft. span crosses Winoo- 

 ski river at tiie falls, and unites the village 

 to a cluster of buildings on the Berlin 

 side, among which are a saw mill, a large, 

 valuable grist mill, and a machine shop. 



Ground Plan of Montpelier village. 



There are 3 other small villages in the 

 town of Montpelier, — one at the centre, 

 consisting of a tavern, a meeting house, 

 several mechanics' shops, and about a 

 dozen dwelling houses ; one somewhat 

 larger on Winooski river, in the east part 

 of the town, called Dagget's mills, con- 

 taining a meeting house, tavern, clothing 

 works, saw and grist mill ; nnd one near- 

 ly the same size in the north part of the 

 town, called Rich's Hollow, on the Cala- 

 is branch of Winooski river, where there 

 are a store, a woollen factory, and com- 

 mon mills. The number of school dis- 

 Pt. hi. 16 



tricts in the whole town is 16. with the 

 same number of school houses, which are 

 generally good. The latitude ofthe State 

 House is 44'' 16' north, and its longitude 

 71° 33' west from Greenv^ich. Statistics 

 of 1840. — Horses, 652 ; cattle, 2,453 ; 

 sheep, 7,443 ; swine, 1,3.56 ; wheat, bush. 

 3,652 ; barley, 463 ; oats, 32,590 ; rye, 

 506; buckwheat, 1,568 ; Ind. corn, 7,630; 

 potatoes, 66,860 ; hay, tons, 7,205 ; sugar, 

 lbs.67,070; wool, 12,041. Pop. 3,725 .dp.t. 



Moose River, is an eastern branch of 

 the Passumpsic, and rises in Granby and 

 East Haven. Taking a southwesterly 

 course through Victory, Bradley vale. Con- 

 cord, and a part of St. .Johnsbury, it falls 

 into the Passumpsic opposite to St. Johns- 

 bury Plain. It is generally a rapid stream, 

 except through Briidleyvale and a part of 

 Concord, where it is sluggish through flat 

 land. Length 24 milesr 



MoRETOWiN, a post town in the centra! 

 part of Washington count}', is in lat. 44'' 

 15' and long. 4° 19', and is bounded nor- 

 therly by Middlesex and a part of Water- 

 bury, from which it is separated by Win- 

 ooski river, easterly by Berlin, southerly 

 by Waitsfield, and westerly by Du.xbury. 

 It was chartered June 7, 1763, containing 

 23,040 acres, and lies eight miles south- 

 west from Montpelier, and 30 southeast 

 from Burlington. The settlement of this 

 township was commenced about the year 

 1790, nnd the town was organized 3 or 4 

 years after. The religious denominations 

 are Congregationalists and Methodists, 

 and there is a small society of each. Much 

 ofthe township is mountainous, and in- 

 capable of being settled. Mad river en- 

 ters it from Waitsfield about a mile from 

 the southwest corner, and passes throuo-h 

 it in a northeasterly direction into Win- 

 ooski river. On this stream are several 

 mill privileges. There are in town 2 ful- 

 ling mills, 3 grist and 6 saw mills, 1 store, 

 and 1 tavern. Statistics of 1840. — Horses, 

 225; cattle, 1,408; sheep, 3,.546 ; swine, 

 889; wheat, bush. 1,735; barley, 151; 

 onts, 9,110; rye, 222; buckwheat, 810; 

 Ind. corn, 4,105; potatoes, 38,848; hay, 

 tons, 3J7I ; sugar, lbs. 28,791 ; wool, 6,- 

 570. Population, 1,128. 



Morgan, a township in the eastern part 

 of Orleans county, is in lat. 44" 51' nd 

 long. 4° 58', and is bounded north by Hol- 

 land and a part of Derby, easterly by 

 Wenlock and Warner's gore, and south- 

 west by Navy and a part of Salem. It 

 lies 52 miles northeast from Montpelier, 

 and was chartered Nov. 6, 1780, to Jede- 

 diah Calderkin and others, by the name 

 of Caldersbiirgh. The name was altered 

 to Morgan Oct. 19, 1801. The settlement 

 of ti)is township was commenced about 



