The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-08-20
Windsor County,.

all fair and fertile Vermont there no section that
1Esurpasses Windsor County in beauty scenery rich
of SOIL value and grade of focls and herds or in
the comfort of it's homes and intelligence of its people
1t is exaggeraon to say that would be difficult to
find in all New England rural County with greater at
fractions to the seeker of home for the
suit of agriculture to the tourist in pursuit of sum-
mers pleasure. It's attractions of mountain and glen
forest and stream, include the far famed Ascuney Noun
tain, and Mount Tom with its ten miles of unrvaled
drives From every hill top one can gain magnificent
views of the White and Green Mountains while the
queter beauty along the streams the valleys enchant
with the music of the and delicate tracery of foil
age
The beauty and grandeur OF Vermont scenery are COM
ing to be recognized by increasing number of tour
ists who find the charms of her valleys and visions from
her mountains as delightful and extensive as any in
New England Windsor County already is becoming the
home of men of wealth who are purchasing farms
and sites for cottages and mansions which to spend the
with their families and friends.
Windsor County not only owes much to her natural
beauty but also to the enterprise and thrift of her people
who have adorned their farms with homes of comfort and
surrounded them with evidences of cultured and refined
taste.
The Connecticut River forms the eastern line of Wind
sor County The land stretches from the valley westward
in swelling hills till resting at the base of the Green
Mountain range. This slope is nerseced by three riy
to the Connecticut Along these streams many un-
developed water powers awaiting the enterprise of manu.
facturers, who long will recognize the advantages
Vermont affords. 1t is curious fact that this natural
of the State has been little utilized It is
only four years since of the greatest water powers of
the Connecticut, located in Windsor County, has been
utilized, and extensive plant, costing $4OO OOO
erected.
The soil of Windsor County is exceedingly rich not
only in the valleys, but the hills Worked by an in
tegent and progressive population the effort is made
constantly to enrich the soil and increase its productions
that it will not do to say the farms in the valley are
superior to many upon the hills. Some of the towns in
this County located entirely upon the upands and are
as fertile any in the Valleys under the management of
men who agrcultursts and citizens are the pride
and boast of the State In this County some of the
most famous herds of Jersey cattle in the country The
prize Southdown and Shropshire sheep of the State are
here and here the home of of the men WHO have
world wide reputation in connection with the finest
MeIino sheep in the world 1t is in all respects well
adapted to the principal agricultural interests of YER
manufacturing, sheep, horses, and fruit.
There are very few of the so-caed abandoned farms in
this County, and yet there is always opportunity to
purchase desirable locations by those who seeking
permanent residence agnculturists whom of
the refnements and comforts of life consideration
There are also numbeess opportunities for those who
seeking sites for homes to secure in almost
any part of the County locations commanding all the
grandeur and beauty of mountain forest, and stream
while the manufacturer will do well consider the OPP
portunes for power afforded by the streams of the Coun-
ty and Of the State.