Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-05-27


"Across the Islands and Beyond" the
beautiful book advertising the attractions
of Vermont just issued by the Rutland
railroad has this to say of Middlebury,
Beldens, Brooksville, New Haven and
Bristol:
"Seven miles beyond Salisbury and
midway between the cities of Rutland
and Burlington is the thriving town of
Middlebury, seat of Middlebury College.
Here Otter Creek, flowing through the
town, supplies it with much of its
picturesqueness. There are three good
hotels in this proud old home of learning
and there are also excellent liveries,
stores, ETC., for the town has its COM
mercial and its tourist sides and is the
starting point for stages to West Corn
wall, Bridport, Weybridge and Ripton.
Middlebury Falls furnish excellent
power, and a pulp mill some distance
further down the Otter is operated by
another water power.
"Middlebury College was chartered in
1900. thirty-nine years after the town
itself received its first charter. 1t is not
large college, but has long enjoyed a
high rank among the educational in
stitutions of the country, both for the
excellence of its curriculum and
for the distinction that many of
its alumni have attained The college
buildings stand on the west side of the
Otter, on a hill overlooking the town and
valley.
Dread Loaf Inn, eleven miles east of
Middlebury, stands upon plateau hav-
ing an altitude 500 feet and is one of
Vermont's best known summer resorts.
The Inn consists of the main hotel,
cottages, music hall and theatre. The
hotel property includes many miles of
forest land, with fine trout streams.
Other points of interest in the vicinity
are Bread Loaf Mountain, nearly 1000
feet high, Burnt Hill, Silent Cliff and
Lake Plead, the last-named point being
high up in the hills.
"Beldens and BrOoksville, beyond Mid
dlebury, are exceptions to the general
rule of Vermont towns in being COM
paratively new hamlets The reasons
for Beldens' existence and activity is
found in the fine water power at this
point which has attracted a Furnishing
marble industry.
AT New Haven Junction, eight miles
from Middlebury, connection is made
with the Bristol Railroad, six miles and
a half in length and running to New
Haven and Bristol, through "A region of
more than ordinary fertility, where the
manifold evidences Of profitable farming
enrich every view, New Haven is a
mile and half from the junction and
is picturesquely situated. 1t has a good
hotel, stores, an academy of high stand
ing, a church, and all that goes to make
up complete village. Its name is
accounted for by the fact that the
charter was obtained in 1861 by John
Everts, Connecticut man, and presum-
ably from New Haven in that state.
Bristol, the terminus of this short
road, is sheltered by mountain more
picturesque than its name-for it is
known as Hog Back" The town is
substantially built of attractive APP
pearance, and has particularly pretty
park, two hotels, good schools and
several factories.
THE surrounding country possesses a
rugged grandeur that has made il
famous. The very names of some of the
points of Unconstitutional Den
Rocking Rock, Money Digger's Cave
the Devils Cart Road, the Devils Wind
pipe, the Devils Pulpit, and the like
appeal to the imagination and in mos
cases the reality is even more romantic
than the promise