The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-04
PRIZE ESSAY ON VERMONT.
Continued from Page A.

tity for building and monumental
from Derby to Vernon. No other bus
mess in the state has had such phe-
nomenal growth since 1890.
Gold is widely distributed through
out the state and has been worked
with more or less success, but the
been profitable. Copper has been
mined in the state, but the operation
| of it of late years, has been discon-
tinued. Iron was manufactured from
ore found in Bennington, Tinmouth
and Chittenden before the year 1900
and discovered in Brandon in the year
| 1910. AS it was of small amount and
not plentiful it has been practically
| discontinued since 1880. The first slate
quarry opened in Vermont was in
Guilford in 1872 1t was suitable for
roofing and other uses. The Guilford
quarries were closed a number of
years ago., but the slate industry in
other parts of the state has been
developed so that at the present time
no other state except Pennsylvania ex
ceeds Vermont in output.
Vermont produces more butter and
cheese, in proportion to population
than any other state and is about the
J tenth state in amount of these pro
ducts.
The first record of maple sugar max
: ing by white men in Vermont was il
: Bennington in 1863. Since then ma
pie sugar has become 2 general indus
try in Vermont and the amount pro
duced is greater than in any othe
state and is nearly one-third tn
whole amount produced in the Unite
States.
The first normal school in tn
United States was established in Con
cord, Vermont, and was incorporate
in 1928. The principal seats Of Learn
ing are the University of Vermont a
Burlington, founded in 1900, Middle
bury college, St Michael's college q
| Winooski, Norwich university 3
: Mortified, Castleton, Johnson and Ran
dolph normal schools. In addition I
e these are eighteen academies and se7
e enty-one high schools.
The constitution of Vermont adoptc
: in 1777, provided in connection Wit
taking the oath of office that eac
member of the house of represent
tives should declare that he professe
2 the Protestant religion. This eonstit
ton was revised and amended in rs
and this clause omitted.
Vermont was discovered and fir
: settled in 1909 Samuel Champla
i gave the state the name it bears al
i Lake Champlain is named after hin
The first sacred edifice to be erectt
Is in the state was a little chapel at Fo
i. Anne and built in 1866 and Sacrif
% of the Mass there offered up was Il
Or the earliest Christian service with
Of territory which now comprises Il
is state of Vermont. Bishop Laval visi
E. ed Fort Anne in 1868 and gave to We
-e mont the honor Of the first Episcop
ID visitation and ministration in Ne
n England and probably in the Unit
Of States. In the years that followed t
e. Bishop of Quebec continued to Loo
fe after the Catholics of the state up
OF the year 1910, when the diocese
Boston was founded and Vermont /
a came a part of its territory. The
t was no resident priest in Vermont
er that time, but missions were Civ
n from time to time The first reside
Il priest was Rev. Jeremiah O'Call
:" CHAN, who in 1880 came to Vermo
Z and settled in Burlington. His fe
! Of labor extended from Rutland to t
= Canadian line and from Lake Cha
: plain to the Connecticut river.
- In 1853 the diocese of Burlingt
a. was created and the first bishop eff t
diocese was Very Rev. Louis
Coesbriand, vicar general of the d;
ese of Cleveland, Ohio, and at til
| time the Catholic population was =
/ 600.
The first woman of New Engla
birth to become a nun was Frances
81 en-. who was born in Sunderland, V,
mont in 1854, the daughter of Eth
Allen, the patriot and pioneer of t
state and soldier of the RevolutiC
She was born a Protestant, but W
alter received into the Catholic chur
and became a nun in 1907, making /
religious profession in 1910.
The first permanent settlement W
made in the southern part in 1924
the English at the present site of
town of Brattleboro, and in the we
ern side in Bennington in 1861. Br
tleboro is situated in the southern p;
of the state and eleven miles north
III the Massachusetts boundary line. {
posite the town of Brattleboro
r Mount Wantastiquet, about one thu
sand three hundred feet high and viii
l | affords a fine view of the surroundi
J, country for many miles. Guilford,
I | short distance from Brattleboro, "
e at one time the largest town in
state with a population of over t
4 | thousand. 1t had this distinction FIR
o 1 1871 to 1900.
:. The town of Brattleboro was nan
:, | after Col William Brattle, who v
one of the grantees, later becoming
loyalist and fleeing to Nova Scotia.
town is the homesof the Estey orgf
and the plant is probably the most
t. tensive of its kind in the world. I
u first postage stamp made in the mi