Part III. 



GAZETTEER OF VERMONT. 



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NORTHFIELD. 



NORTH HERO. — NORTON. 



NORWICH. 



versalists, Freewill Baptists and Christ- 

 ians. There are 5 ordained ministers, 

 viz. Rev Calvin Granger, Con<rregation- 

 alist; Elders Joel Winch, N. B. Ashcraft 

 and A. T. Bullard, Methodists, and N. T. 

 King, Freewill Baptist. The epidemic of 

 181 1 and 1 2 was very mortal here, and the 

 dysentery swept off about 30 children in 

 this town in the fall of 1823. The prin- 

 cipal stream in this town, is Dog river* 

 which runs through it in a northerly di- 

 rection, and affords a great number of val- 

 uable mill privileges. The timber is, 

 hemlock, spruce, maple, beach and birch, 

 intermingled with fir, pine, ash, butter- 

 nut, &c. The soil is, generally good, and 

 in many places, is easily cultivated. A 

 range of argillaceous slate passes through 

 the township from south to north. The 

 surface is uneven, and a range of high 

 lands passes from north to south through 

 the town, both on the eastern and western 

 side of the river. There are four small 

 villages. The Upper village, so called, 

 contains a store, 2 carding and clothier's 

 shops, a trip hammer, 1 grist and 2 saw- 

 mills, various mechanics and about 20 

 dwelling houses. The Centre villagr. con- 

 tains 2 meeting-houses, a store, tavern, 

 mechanic shops and about 25 dwellings. 

 Factory village one mile north of the cen- 

 tre, is the principal place of business. The 

 woollen factory here is 150 feet long, 42 

 wide, and contains 6 sets of woollen ma- 

 chinery, employing from 175 to 2U0 work- 

 men and indirectly several hundreds more. 

 About 80,000 lbs. of wool, $25,000 worth 

 of indigo, $12,000 worth of wood, f 12,000 

 worth of loticem are used annually, and 

 the labor costs about |;30,000. There are 

 in this village 1 meeting house, 1 store, 

 1 tavern, a saw and grist mill, machine 

 shop, &c. About Ik mile north of Facto- 

 rj' village is anotiier small but thriving 

 village called the " Falls.'" It contains 2 

 small flannel factories, a saw mill. ttc. 

 The water power here is good and safe. 

 All of the above villages with the excep- 

 tion of the Centre which is a little off 

 from that stream are situated on Dog riv- 

 er and have good water power. During 

 the last 15 years this town has increased 

 rapidly in wealth and population. There 

 are in town, 18 school districts, 8 school- 

 bouses, 3 grist and two fulling mills, 1 

 carding machine, one woollen factory, 2 

 flannel factories, 3 stores, and 2 taverns. 

 Statistics of 1840.— Horses, 32'.J ; cattle, 

 1,399; sheep, 4,979; swine 1,501 ; wheat, 

 bus. 7,159; barley, 652; oats, 12,574; 

 rye, 341; buck-wheat, 2,335 ; Indian corn, 



, * Dog river took its name from the civcuinstance 

 of a hunter losing a favorilf- ilog here, before llie town 

 was sflttled, by being caught in a trap. 



Ft. in. 17 



4,362; potatoes, 57,367 ; hay, tons, 3,862 ; 

 sugar, lbs. 24,515; wool, 15,057. Pop-> 

 ulation, 2,013. 



North Hero, a post and shire town 

 in Grand Isle county, is in lat. 44° 51' 

 and long. 3"^ 44'. It is an island in lake 

 Champlain, 26 miles north from Burliug- 

 ton,and 6 west from St. Albans. Area,6,272 

 acres. It was granted in connexion with 

 South Hero and Vineyard, and they were 

 all chartered by the name of the two He- 

 roes, Oct. 27, 1779, to Ethan Allen, Sam- 

 uel Herrick and others. The setilement 

 of this township was commenced in 1783, 

 by Enos and Solomon Wood, the former 

 from Bennington, in this state, and the 

 latter from Norwich, Con. The British 

 erected a block house here, at a place 

 called Dutchman's Point, which was gar- 

 risoned, and not given up till 1796. The 

 town was organized in 1789. Nathan 

 Hutchins was the first town clerk, and 

 also the first representative. The Free- 

 will Baptists and Methodists are the most 

 numerous denominations of Christians. 

 The fever and ague was very common 

 here for some time after the settlement 

 was commenced, and in 1799 the bilious 

 fever was very mortal. Since that time 

 the town has been healthy. Nathan 

 Hutchins died here some years ago, aged 

 90 years. The soil of the township is of 

 an excellent quality, and produces grain 

 of all kinds in abundance. It has no 

 streams of any consequence, and no mills 

 or mill privileges. Its public buildings 

 are a stone court house and jail. Statis- 

 tics of 1840.— Horses, 187 ; "cattle, 997 ; 

 sheep, 3,967; swine, 568; wheat, bush. 

 4,005 ; barley, 16 ; oats, 6,452; rye, 950 ; 

 buck-wheat, 1,383; Indian corn, 3,127; 

 potatoes, 14,525 ; hay, tons, 1,317 ; sugar, 

 lbs. 5,185 ; wool, 8,044. Population, 716. 



Norton, an uninhabited township in 

 the northwest corner of Essex county, is 

 in lat. 44° 58' and is bounded north by 

 Bradford and Barnston, Can., east by 

 Averill, souih by Avery's, Warner's and 

 Warren's gore, and west by Holland. It 

 is 12 miles long from east to west, and 4 

 from north to south. The land is said to 

 be good and well timbered, considerable 

 tracts of it with pine. The charter of the 

 township was burnt, and it is difficult get- 

 ting a valid title to the lands. There are 

 two considerable ponds lying partly in 

 this township. The outlet of Norton 

 pond is the head branch of Coatacook riv- 

 er, which unites with the Mnsuippi, in 

 Ascot, and then unites with the St. Fran- 

 cis, at Lenoxville. Farrand's river, also, 

 heads here and runs south. 



Norwich, a post town in the northeast 

 corner of Windsor county, ia in lat. 43=* 



