Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-06-11
HISTORY OF COUNTY
TAKEN FROM VERMONT GAZATEER
PUBLISHED INi.THE
YEAR 1862
Continued from last week.
Continued from last week.
BRUNSWICK

On the farm upon which Daniel
M. Smith resides is a very large
granite bowlder which probably
weighs more than 500 tons, and
stands upon so small a base that it
has taken the cognomen of "the
rock that stands upon nothing" In
order to give the reader some idea
of the size and position of this rock,
we will make a comparison: We
will suppose a .two-story house, hav-
ing an old fashioned hip roof, cut off
at the top or apex of the roof, so as
to form fiat surface of four or
five feet square; then suppose this
house turned bottom side up, and
standing upon the roof, on a rocky
foundation, and one will have quite
correct understanding of the same.
While we may wonder at the pecu-
liarities attending this huge block of
granite, He who holds the ocean as
in the hollow of his hand can only
tell when and how this rock was
placed in its present position.
Since the Grand Trunk railroad
was built in 1852, which passes
through the north part of this town,
considerable capital has been inves-
ted in Brunswick, in the erection of
mills and other machinery, for the
manufacture of lumber, which has
added much to the business-like ap-
pearance and wealth of the town.
Gen. R. M. Richardson & Co., of
Portland, Me-, in 1856, erected a
capacious saw-mill on the Nulhegan
river, at the point where the rail-
road crosses the river, at an expense
of $50, The mill is one of the
largest in the county, if not in the
state, having set Of gang-saWs, a
large circular saw or board-machine,
single upright saw, and butting-
saw, besides machines for filing saws,
making shingles, clapboards and
sugar boxes, ETC., etc. The company
employ some so or 60 men in the
various departments connected with
the establishment.
The mill is capable of saving
so, 900 feet of boards from the log in
"a hours, and during the last three
OF four years have manufactured
1900, 900 feet or more annually, be-
sides large quantities of shingle,
boxes and heading.
Enos Woodard, an energetic and
enterprising member of the company.
who has had the care and superin-
tendence of the establishment for
the last two or three years, has pur-
chased large tract of hard wood
land in the vicinity of the mills, and
, is carrying on quite extensive farm
ing operations. He has, in connec-
ton with his son Charles, erected a
store near the mills, being the first
store in town, and a brisk trade has
sprung up where few years since
the solitude of the forest was only
broken by the scream of the owl
and the roar of the waterfall. d.
H. & T. G. Beattie, of Maidstone,
have recently built a large saw-mill
on Paul stream, and are actively en-
gagged in numbering operations.
Other mills, of less size and capac-
ity, have been built within few
years, on Wheeler stream, for the
manufacture of lumber; and per-
haps no town in the county sends
more lumber to market, in the vari-
Gus forms in which it is prepared,
than Brunswick.
Prior to the facilities extended to
this country by the railroad enter
prise but little progress, since 1910,
was made in this town in point of
wealth and population.
The broken and sterile condition
of the lands not Immediately bor-
dering on the river did not give
sufficient inducement to agricultural
pursuits to cause their settlement,
and the want of ready market for
most of the products of the soil, had
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