Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-02-04
MEMORIES OF GLOVER.
It's People Sixty-five Years Ago and
Since.
Letter No. 3.

what ia and has been known as "Run-
await or "Dry" Pond, at the south
end of the town. This occurred IN
1910. some 81 years before L went
there. Nevertheless it was still 1.-THE
talk of the town" In those days, as
aome of the men then lived who were
fundamental in helping the waters to
escape. Suffice 1t to say that the
outlet of that pond was, naturally, at
the south end, and it's waters entered
into the Lamoille River. The reason
for it's being interfered with was that
n eristmill was located near the one
place, perhaps upon 1t, not far soutn
of the present village, but In the
summer time there was not water
enough running in the creek that mao
ita head at Stone Pond, and 1t was
thought feasible TO let part OF the
water of the pond NOW Dry Fono)
ont at the north end so as TO furnish
sufficient power for the little MIL
above mentioned. So men gathered
on a particular day in June, by agree
ment, to cut a small canal upon
digging down the crest OF the MIL u
proved to be sand, and upon reaching
the waters edge there was nara
shell of blue clay and gravel. 30 the
men began to break that shsll ana ie'
the water run over the edge OF tne
break. This washed the sand away
verv rapidly and as the sand recedeo
the shell, being thin, readily proKe
,way. and the water rushed through
so rapidly that one or two OF the men
came very near being swept down
the violent waters. The result was
that the pond all ran out at the nortn
end and with such force as to carry
everything before it and tore big trees
M bv the roots; and l can remember
seeing some of them with tops ourleo
below the surface, while the big roots
were up in the air at various angles
in the fields of farms on the nat
ground two miles from where the
water was let out. A man was SEM
on horseback ahead of the waters TO
warn the miller and others OF the
danger that was coming. There was
a man just starting from the mill with
a erist. and he and the miller had just
time to get out of the way when the
water came down and washed the
mill. milldam and all, entirely away
To give some idea of the force OF the
water:-There lay nearly quarter OF
a mile above the present village a
huge granite bowlder. This big
bowlder was forced down into where
the village is now, and it's size can be
Judged by the fact that after 1tWa'
finally split up it formed the under
pinning to the Universalist church
also the old brick store, and furnlsne'
a doorstep to David Beams house anC
Jack Drew's house.
There is a relic of that mill now Ii
existence, in the city of Elmira, n. Y
It ia the under milestone and yer.
small, but very perfect, and not owe
ls or 20 inches in diameter. 1t
owned and very highly priced by M
own daughter, Mrs. May McCollun
1t really ought to be in some historl
museum in the state.
Two of the men who were at tn
y letting out of the water wer
Nathaniel and Lyndel French. l use
to know who otherslwere but haV
forgotten. Previous to the escape
that pond, where Glover village no
is was a low cedar swamp, but it WI
admirably filed up with sand al
gravel, and was made to become OF
of the dryest and prettiest: little vi
lagos in northern Vermont.
will now call to mind some of Il
Oldest men who were alive when
went to Glover in 1S41. There will
descendants of some of them ev'
now in the town, grandchildren al
great grandchildren Two or three
the Oldest men then were John she
burn. who lived on the farm ne
owned by Willie Clark; Jonas Phillip
then living on what was afterWar
the Partridge place; and "Grands
Noah Leonard" "a contraction
Grandsire), who was grandfather
Chaplin Leonard. There were a
Elder Mason, father of Moses Mas
and Mrs. Ira Strong, Samuel Be'
mentioned in my first letter, Ell
Frost, a Mr.. Lawrence, "Old Fatf
Crane" father of John Crane, It
Mr.. Cook" great-graDdfather of de
nv Cook, who now lives on the sa
place, 6 Mr.. Wheeler, father OF
VINE eler, "Uncle Joe Gray" father
Olin Gray, Ruel Hurlburt of Sol
Hill, Andrew Mcclellan, grandfatl
to Hiram and Frank Mcclellan,
lived next above Amos Cooks,
Gleason, who lived on the road
which Hiram and Sam Phillips W
A.r.l Thaaa man I u0u iudpa W