Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-06-08

the water very soon overlook them, {
and they were glad to drop their meal
and save their lives; horse was ;
hitched near the gristmill, but nothing
was ever seen of him, nor has any part
of the mill been found to this day:
.'In his race to defeat death,
Chamberlin's powers OF endurance
were tried to their uttermost,, feat
it would be difficult to parallel; he
felt the effect of it to the day of his
death. :.
"Persons are not agreed as to the
exact location of the Wilson mills.
Of the authorities given above, the
only one to refer to it is E. i. Wilson, |
who saws, The site of what is now the
village of Glover was about two hum
dred rods north of the mills. He also
saws The mills were swept away and
NO vestige of them ever found Mr..
Perciyal says, No part of the mil
has been found to this day. Mr..
Parker says, SO complete was the
destruction. that it is said the mill
stones have never been seen. Near
the location of where this mill is
supposed to have been situated, soon
after you turn upon the road leading to
the Aldrich farm can be seen the re-
mains of a stone wall, evidently the
foundation of mill, also the remains OF
a stone dam and what seems to be lndl-
cations of a mill race, all covered with
large growing trees. Is this the
remains of the foundation Of the
Wilson mills?' If not, of whose mill
is it the foundation? I will leave
it to the future historian to report.
Eat this day, people do not agree as
to which side of the stream and valley
the person ran who alarmed the
miller. Of the authorities given by
me, not one states.
81 am inclined to think it was on
the east side for the following reasons.
"1st, The party started from 'Keene's
. Corner on the morning of June 6, for
the pond, which was on the east side.
/ should expect they would return the
, same way they went.
! '2nd, There was road from the
a Philander Owen place up by the pres
t ent cemetery to the Samuel Cook
: place, from there to Sheffield. The
' section along this road was open, dry
s land, and among the first settled II
e Glover. :,
"3rd, The section of country on the
:. west side of the valley, Immediately
o north of the pond, was rough, rocky
Il and billy, and one going that way
J.
n stream coming from Stone pond; ant
}. Immediately north of this valley tn
# country was rough and hilly.
g "4th, Mr.. Wilson says, In few
n minutes Chamberlin came in sight o
Y the mill, and seeing horse hitched to
ID post by the door he knew someon
y was at work inside The mill was a
Y his left down decline of about thirt
ID rods If Chamberlin was runnin
l. on the west side of the river the mi
as would have been at his right.
lg 18TH, Sarah H. Stebbins in the Mon
le tor of February %, 1907, says, III
d, horse that was lost belonged to MI
err Cutler, grandfather of H. R. Cutler {
IN Barton This man lived at Yves
err Glover. ,
S, "Mr. Parker in his article says, TT
n. unfortunate man at the mill had lo
ne his grain and his horse he had escape
to from the mill on the opposite side (
ut the flood from his home and We
he obliged to wait till next day. Tn
ne would show the mill on the east side
ok "The foregoing are some OF tt
- things showing that the man ran on Il
lis east side of the valley.
or History tells US, that the force
nd this avalanche was So great, as
5 II OdSI0u lIlGO Wuu pO1lO IL dAONS
nd waters out like a whirlwind and dow
he the narrow valley of it's outlet, clearil
nd it's sides of the timber; the accumul
ar tions soon formed a jam, causing tt
he water in Mud pond to raise to gre
en- height: this soon gave way and t
nd whole went rushing on, clearing
its pathway of trees until another ia
,ut was formed and the water rose IN tE
of narrow valley, only to again bre
rk away this was often repeated. In plac
he great channels were washed out U
as covering long sheets of ledge; IN othe
cry great hills of trees, dirt and gray
were deposited, and can be seen to tt
ten day between here and Barton villag
he and large quantities of this gravel ha
son been used, making the best mater
IN. for constructing highways.
vas "The surface of Mud pond W
RS. lowered about twenty feet and
the south half completely filled.
of "Mr. Wilson in his account of tt
tes says, About two hundred rods north
"a the Wilson mills, was a large swan
yed covered thickly with small cedar
in this being the lowest level the wal
,ct. had reached, different results we
f a produced, the cedars were brok
hat down; the great number of TIRE
vas which the water carried along, WI
tar. left and the whole buried in sand g
v. soil from ten to fifteen feet de-
ing forming the site of Glover villag
the He also says, There was SIN
clearing with log house on it lit
) to north of the w. C. Brown house
run Barton Village, (at that time owl
the by Mr.. Cobb. 1t was three o'cl'
the when the water broke into the sol
ates end, spreading to the right and le
Mr.. in column over twelve feet hi
yer, The family were all in the house
ical the time, when hearing stral
who roaring sound, they all went out
ting find out the cause. When they S
am the water coming they started to
item to the western foothills; when p
rker way there the mother discovered
had left her baby in the cradle.
was father quickly returning caught
III or, | childfn his arms and retraced his ST