Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1920-09-29
Continued from last week,

Jesse Cook also built the housa tb.+
yohh 6arIleIt lives In, and a store
II 1850 Lewis Stimson came from
MelDourne, canada, and worked that
season Tor Capt. Peck. The Captain
went away on whaling voyage and
was killed by a whale SO Mr. STIR
son took employment in a brick vard
which stood 100 feet south of tbe
frst meeting house, near the present
congregational church. Mr.. Stimson
next made purchase of real estate
on the Bloomington road, but in 1898
sold this and went to the farm I'M the
river which he kept many years.
The Cook estate was purchased by
Cyrus Eaton, who came to the Land
ing about 1910 and became not only
the largest farm owner but one of the
most active business men of the
place. He lived In the John Bart
lett house. He built the grist mill in
1S41 at the falls near US, and the
sawmill, now paint shop, which still
stands on the opposite side of the
stream. The stones of the old grist
mill ground their toll for many years
before the building was transformed
into the cold storage plant of the
Turnbul Company. One of the
pleasant memories of my boyhood is
the periodical trip i took to this mill
for a bag of graham and a bag of
corn meal, which ! drew home in a
little fourwheeled cart made for me
by Uncle Daniel Twombly. / have
heard and sung about the Miller of
the Dee, but my ideal miller will al
ways be Henry Haselton, a portly'
genial gentleman, who said little but
liked small boys. / am glad to pay
Thir T-ihf1fa his memory
Cyrus Eaton's building activities
continued. He presently built two
story building on the site now occu-
MED by the Dwinell Company, and
there ran a grocery and dry goods
store, an important addition TO the
place; although some years previous
| a store had been opened by Abrams.
I Smith in the south end of the old
Heber Parker house on the west side
of Maple street, on the site occupied
now by Fred Parker's home.
Building began on the west side on
/ the Barton river shortly after 1880.
/ In 1888 a house was built by Martin
4 Pomeroy and later occupied by Joseph
+ Stafford near the present railroad
bridge where S. B. Parker's place now
stands. Another frame house, prob
ably the seventh in the village, was
/ built by Joseph Colley at the corner
where one turns to go 10 Irasburg.
/ II was occupied in my boyhood by l.:
/ ID. Wilson, the druggist, was occupied
for time by George Smith, by Cyren
Ordway, and has been in recent years
remodelled and used by the Eldrldge
( Company. . a schoolhouse was built
+ in 1896, on the site of the place now
owned by Ezra Taylor. It was later
moved across the street and made
mart of the house owned by Daniel
/ Skinner for many years, but when
has disappeared in recent years under
! the developments at that corner In
/ 1887 a house was built by BENJAMIN
Forbes, q blacksmith, where the Whlp-
ME block now stands. The old cell
/ lar was an inviting dumping ground
/ for debris when I was boy About
the same time q blacksmith shop was
built on that side the river. This IS
shown in the picture in the historical
booklet, the building beyond 1t being
the old hop house
The large land owners of that day
were Mr.. Cyrus Eaton, who was pro
prietor of all the land east of the
! PARK. with the exception of about ten
acres. and also of the land owned by
John BARTLETT and Eben Wilson, who
owned land across the stream TO the
IrasbI1rp land, including "Congo
Hill.n In 1876 Richard Newton, who
owned the land from the river 10 the
foot of Water hill, sold a plot OF forty
by eighty rods to Denison STAFFORD
for S4OO This comprised the site OF
the present Parker-You yards AND
factory.