Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-08-15


The first framed house was built by
Mills DE Forest. IA 1890, on the site
wheps the house owned and occupied
by Ahdiel Blodgatt nov stands. The
first Slw-mill was built by Mills DE
Forest in 1895. The first grist-mill, in
1910, by the same person. Monadnoc
mountain is situated in this town. a
slide from the easteriy side of this
mountain took place. in the summer Of
1905, in the night. It filed large
pond at the foot of the mountain, and
afforded a chance for building the /
county road, which is built over the /
place that the pond used to occupy. |
Lewis Smerrage lived on the banks of
the Connecticut, at a short distance
from the slide at the time il took place.
He was so frightened by the tremendous
noise made by the great quantities of
rocks, trees &C., which came down
from the mountain, that he jumped
out Of his bed and scrambled under it
the day of judgment had come. The
! next morning he found his meadow
nearly covered with water, which had
been forced out of the pond by the
slide, This town has always been
= sparsely settled and only on the river.
LEWIS.
| IS n fimber tra ct Ilnoroa nizn1
, LUNENBURGH
? Chartered July 5. 1863, by Benning
Wentworth, governor of the New Ham
pshire colony, to David Page, q others.
/ The first settlement made in this town
! was in the N. E. part land is now in
GuildhalD in 1894, by David Page,
! Timothy Nash, George Wheeler. The
first settlers suffered severe privations
for a number of years. They brought
, their grain and provision from North
, field, Mass, in canoes, a distance of
s more than $50 miles and, during the
s Revolutionary war, they were in con-
: tinual alarm, and frequently annoyed
by the Indians and tories, who killed
n their cattle, plundered their houses,
/ and carried number of the inhabi-
= tants into captivity,
q 1t is difficult to determine when the
4 first settlement was made in thepresent
i limits of the town, but probably as
/ early as 1863 by Uriah Cross, Thos.
. Gustin and Ebenezer Rice, who made
s their log huts near the bank OF Con
o necticut river, where game and fish were
}. most easily obtained. Moose and deer
+ were plenty, and salmon, at the head
, of the Is miles falls, were caught with
h but little trouble in the night with
torch and spear some weighing 4C
pounds have been taken by the first
settlers.
The land in this township lies in
swells, running back from the Con
necticut river to the west, where il
rises in a range of hills near Victory
- line. The most noted is Mount Tug
d probably deriving it's name from the
l. difficulty of going over it. The timber
d on the high lands is generally hard
u wood in the low, mostly hemlock an6
y spruce. On the intervals and plains
,e ON the Connecticut river the timbers
L. originally was white pine. The frs
10 settlers on these broad and productive
IL meadows, in clearing their lands
re would haul these huge trees to the
s. bank and roll them into the river, con
II graduating themselves that they had
so easy a way of getting rid of them
never dreaming that such timber a.
/" they were floating down stream would
~ be worth from 30 to 40 dollars thou
III more than they gave for their lot o
III land.
10 The village is near the centre of TIL
III town where the ''town plots" or cit,
10 lots of one acre each were once ''laid OF
II with streets adjacent" The Portland
Is and Ogdensburgh r. r. have thei
W central station at the head of TIL
es fifteen miles falls in this town. Their
&c are two post-offices, Lunenburgh anC
rs South Lunenburgh; Three churche
We the Congregationalist, Methodist anC
" Baptist.
re The Congregationalist built thei
H. first church about the time the Concort
i'e church was built. In 1842 this churcl
'e' was taken down and a new one wa
III built which was burned in 1849.
Is new house was built in 1851 which nov
II stands.
IT. The Methodist church was built i
30 1880. The Baptist church is on hi
H. about two miles from the village
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