The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-07-01

ances will etfectually check its further
progress in that direction. a
Miscellaneous Facts. a
Indian relics, embracing pipe bowls, /
flint arrow heads and stone pesties t
have been dug up in this vicinity To- t
eether with skulls Of the primitive res :
ident of this locality, and Indian hier
oglyphics can be seen upon the rocks
in West River cove and other places
hercabouts. ZOO,
An academy was incorporated in lsol
and the building for the same erected
at the West Village. The hall IN TINS
building was used for town meetings
until 1855 when the present town ha'l
on Main street was erected.
The first bridge across the Connecti-
emf River in this locality was built IN
1904.
Much OF the merchandise coming TO
Rrattleboro in early days was brought
bere in fiat boats from Hartford, Conn.
The steam cars first entered Brattie
boro in February, ls4s, bringing such
a large number OF visitors tha' '"e
hote,s could not accommodate them.
Tbe soil of this township is similar
10 that generally found along tne
Connecticut River, intervals OF san''
loom and gravel with the timber
adapted to them. -,
At the East Village high schooi
building was erected by JOINT STOCK
company in 1881.
Rev Hiram Orcutt in 1859 erected
large three story building ana es'a,
lisbed female seminary near the oio
academy and the later one bu'" III
mart by the Hayes appropriation o
rnnied three large buildings ior the
seminary school.
The first church in Bratteooro ha'
it's establishment in l7S
The large spacious meeting mousse
hu;,t at the West Village in 1882 was
DESTROYED by fire February :, lo4o'
and the smaller one now stahoihs :"
the same place was built IN ls4o.
The first store said to have been es-
tablished in Vermont was opened III
177l by Stephen Greenleaf OF bos.on'
on the present site OF the Union oiocA
on Main street
Among various means which nave
contributed TO the rise and growth Oh
this place, not the least IS the a''eh
tion given to mechanics here.
Matthew Martin built saw miii on
MILESTONE brook and set the first water
ov.r in motion in this locality about
l3o wears ago He stated II is sa'u'
that he could have purchased the
whole country hercabouts at - ceh'f
per acre. ,.;,,
wool carding and cloth dressing
sbop followed the saw mill, ana since
the water power has been used io'
printing, paper making n'ac'''"'
shops, grinding grain, manufac'u''nNN W
silk cotton, wool, pearl, ivory poA
wood rules, paper machinery, etc
During the early days from eigh' u
dozen stages arrived in town DAY
The headquarters for most trahs'en. . .
then was the old Stage House
Tb;s house was also the village post
Office for many years open Gay am
night. Asa Green, esq''' was Po''"'"'
fer from 1911 until ls4l. Johh Ar"''
WAS the first postmaster
There was Lottery enterprise con
ducted opposite the old stage nous
-, from 1896 to 1893.
'a' The Vermont asylum for the insah'
was established in Brattleboro in Isl"
", 70 The popularity OF the place as
a, s,mmer resort dates from lo4o whei
~ Dr. Wesselhoeft from Germany, es
- tablished here his hydropathic insti
u t,t;on Tor water cure DIR. Wessei
az hoeft after travelling extensively II
Il New England and testing wa'e
brought from various parts OF the on'
OF tod states decided upon locating Il
~ Brattleboro.
''s The first monied institution IN IN
~ town was the Brattleboro Bank, lneof
&c porated in 1921. Its first president wa
Jonathan Hunt, and its first cashier
Epaphro Seymour. Mr.. hunt wa
le- elected TO congress and died while
Office at Montpelier in 1882 at the ag
ed of 40. .,onM - Nh;
eo He built the large brickhouse on MAJ
''s street opposite the town hall no
owned by Col. Geogre W. Hooker. II
Is oldest son William M. Hunt, gained
"o high reputation as one OF the be
hs painters America has produced. M
Oh seymour was an uncle, of Governs
Horatio Seymour Of Utica, N. T., al
Is brother Of Horatio Seymour so long u
IL ~ whig leader in Vermont.
oo Francis Goodhue, grandfather of U
%. present Francis Gooihue came to Bra
w. tleboro from Wcathersfield CT, in lsl
ner He gave the land upon which the 70
LA prepational and Unitarian church
now stand.
There have been captured or lou
some remarkable specimens in natu
.aiS history in Brattleboro and its vicini
i'a. workman, while digging muck
anu the farm of ID. S. Pratt, Sept. 3, Is
sOhe found. about five feet below the s.
'e face, a part of the tusk OF an elepha
l. naFh~ ~