Part III. 



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MOUNT HOLLY. 



MOUNT INDEPENDENCE. — MOUNT NEBO. 



MOUNT TABOR. 



old Indian pensioner who lived by the 

 side of it. (See Hijdcpark.) In the cast 

 part of this town lead ore lias lately been 

 discovered. The public buildings are a 

 town house and four meeting houses, the 

 first of which was erected in 1823. The 

 Congregationalists and Methodists have 

 each convenient and commodious houses. 

 The Universalists, in common with sev- 

 eral other denominations, erected an ele- 

 gant house at Morrisville, which was ded- 

 icated Aug. 25, 1840. There are 4 phy- 

 sicians, 2 attornies, 10 saw mills, 2 grist 

 mills, 2 tanneries, 2 carding machines, 1 

 woollen factory, 4 stores, and 2 taverns. 

 Statislics 0/1840. — Horses, 385; cattle, 

 2,807 ; sheep, 7,578 ; swine, 1,37G ; wheat, 

 bush. 3,454 ; barley, 52 ; oats, 12,916 ; 

 rye, 233 ; buckwheat, 38; Ind. corn, 5,- 

 614 ; potatoes, 66,720 ; hay, tons, 5,0'J5 ; 

 6ugar,lbs..50,980; wool, 14,10'J. Pop. 1,502. 

 Mount Holly, a post town in the east 

 part of Rutland county, is in lat. 43^' 29" 

 and long. 4" 14', and is bounded north 

 by Plymouth and Shrewsbury, east by 

 Ludlow, south by Weston, and west by 

 Wallingford and a part of Mount-Tabor. 

 It lies 60 miles south from Montpelier, 

 and 20 west from Windsor. It is made 

 up of Jackson's gore, containing 10,669 

 acres, 3,388 acres from the east side of 

 Wallingford, and 11,739 acres from the 

 west side of Ludlow, being, in the whole, 

 2-5,796 acres, and was incoroorated, Oct. 

 31, 1792. The settlement of this town- 

 ship was commenced, in 1781, by Icha- 

 bod G., Stephen, and John Clark, Jonah, 

 Amos and Ebenezer Ives, from Connec- 

 ticut, Jacob Wilcox, from Rhode-Island, 

 and Joseph Green, David Bent, Abraham 

 Crowly and Nathaniel Pingrey, from 

 Massachusetts. The town was organ- 

 ized, in 1792. Stephen Clark was first 

 town clerk, and Abraham Jackson, first 

 representative. The religious denomina- 

 tions are Baptists, Methodists, Congre- 

 gationalists and Friends, or Quakers. 

 The Baptist church is most numerous, 

 and Elder D. Parker was settled over it, in 

 1811. They have a meeting-house in the 

 north part of the town. The Congrega- 

 tional church was organized in 1799, but 

 that and the other societies are small. 

 The Friends have a small house for pub- 

 lic worship, and there is a meeting liouse 

 in the south part, owned by the difl'crent 

 denominations in common, in 1813 there 

 were 37 deaths in this town, mostly occa- 

 sioned by the epidemic of that year. Mill 

 river, which rises in the south part of the 

 townshij), and runs through the northeast 

 corner of Wallingford and the southwest 

 corner of Shrewsbury, and unites with 

 Otter creek, in Clarendon, is the only 



stream of consequence. In the northeast- 

 ern part is a considerable pond called 

 Pdlchcs pond. In soil and timber it is 

 similar to tiie mountain towns generally, 

 being much better adapted to the produc- 

 tion of grass than grain. About four miles 

 south from Sprague's tavern, on the sum- 

 mit of the Green Mountains, is found ami- 

 anthus, common and ligniforrn asbestos 

 and fossil leather. Its color is a grayish 

 white, and it is very abundant. Ludlow 

 mountain is a considerable elevation, ly- 

 ing along the line between this township 

 and Lndlov/. The turnpike from Rut- 

 land to Boston passes through this town- 

 ship. There are here 2 stores, 1 grist, 8 

 saw and 2 fulling mills, 1 carding ma- 

 chine and I tannery. Statistixs of 1840. 

 Horses, 313 ; cattle, 2,802 ; sheep, 3,425, 

 swine, 725; wheat, bus. 1,832; barley, 

 448 ; oats, 10,340 ; rye, 296 ; buckwheat, 

 680 ; Indian corn, 886 ; potatoes, 65,930; 

 liay, tons, 5,317; sugar, lbs. 44,120; 

 wool, 8,342. Population, 1,356. 



Mot;xT Independence lies in the north- 

 west corner of the township of Orwell, 

 and about two miles southeast of Ticon- 

 deroga Fort. It is an inconsiderable 

 mountain, and worthy of notice only on 

 account of the fortifications formerly 

 erected upon it, and its connection with 

 the early history of our country. 



Mount Nebo, an eminence in Middle- 

 bury, resting on a base of about two miles 

 by one, and rising gradually 439 feet 

 above the level of Otter creek. Upon its 

 southern declivity the northeast part of 

 the village rests. It affords some of the 

 best arable land in the township, and is 

 cultivated to its summit, where it exhibits 

 to view Lake Champlain. It is a place 

 of much resort to those who love to take 

 an extended view of natural scenery; see 

 "Alps on Alps arise"; and gaze at the 

 mountains, which stretmi off to a great dis- 

 tance north and south, both in New York 

 and Vermont. This eminence is some- 

 times called Chqniian s Hill. 



Mount Tabok, a township in the south- 

 east corner of Rutland county, is in lat. 

 43" 21' and long. 4" 8', and is bounded 

 north by Wallingford, east by Weston 

 and a part of Mount Holly, south by Peru, 

 and west by Dauby. It lies 26 miles 

 southwest from Windsor, and 36 north- 

 east from Bennington, and was chartered 

 August 28, 1761, by the name of Harwich. 

 It was organized March 13, 1788, and 

 John Jenkins was first town clerk. This 

 is a mountainous township, and much of 

 it incapable of ever being settled. Tlie 

 mountains belong to the range of Green 

 Mfiuntains, and the air and soil are not so 

 well adapted to the production of grain as 



