The Press., 1922-11-09
WELLINGTON
WiIlingtOn, West Side, in 1856.


 "A Map of Holland County from Ac- tual Surveys by William c. Eaton and H. C. Osborn" was published by Wood
 ford & Bartlett of Philadelphia in 1857; of which few copies are still existing in the county. It gives the highways and the residents thereon, as they existed at the time of the sur
 vey. Beginning at the Mansfield line, at the southwest corner of Wilmington, the road through South Wilmington has first, N w. MerrOw; northward, D.
 Williams, G. Peck, M. Peck, School,
 H. c. Gurley; next was the road run
 ming eastward: continuing north we
 came to the Thread Mill village prop CT; on the west side of the street,
 Gardner Hall, w. Hall, and Origen
 Hall; on the east side, R. NeWcOmb,
 T. Merrick, and Ira Dimock; then the factory, and the fork of the roads;
 Lathrop Manning lived on the lower,
 (present State road), at the house re- gently occupied by Town Clerk Allen; E. Lee, where Deacon Bracket now lives, on the upper road; w. Aldrich and S. Nichols, Abel Johnson and schOolhOuse, before reaching the east and west road from West WillingtOn to Wilmington Hill; crossing this road west of the Glass Factory we came to a house then occupied by c. Buck land Moore, who afterWard lived where E. DeWOlf now lives, on the east bank of Willimantic River. There were no houses north of Manning on the river or lower road until we came | to the top of the hill overlooking West Wilmington. Here lived Henry G. Whitford and John WhitfOrd close together; afterward Legrand Johnson, son of Abel. Daniel EdgertOn and Darius Starr then kept the store at
 of Judge George P. Bughee. Miss Bet
 sey Woodward lived at the place re- gently occupied by F. w. Pratt. It was about three fOurths of mile to | the next house eastward; s. Stones
 in the Glass Factory group; then w. H. Shaffer on the south side of the road and on the brook, the Glass | Factory, Qp the north side of the road. Harvey Merrick and the Cos store. on the south side. Then the north and south road, crossing at the | present water tank; northward lived A. Trask; sOuthward toward Sharp's ! Mills, lived C. Brown and P. Williams
 in sight of Glass Factory; then Robert | Sharp and his grist and bOlting mill, after an interval of about a mile. BO-
 cock and T. Merrick lived on the road west, connecting with the upper road from s. Wilmington past present old | schOOlhOuse lived E. c. Pinney; and
 farther on, after a turn to the north, \ lived w. Slingsby.
 Returning to Glass Factory tank, T. MacFarlane and Peter Barrett on
 Wilmington Hill road. Half way from | factory to the Hill was a house not | marked, which was occupied long by
 Rufus Robbins; now by S. Poutray. On Willington Hill, south of the
 Green, Daniel Glazier, Mrs. Eldredge,
 Baptist church, c. P. Rider, G. N Mer-
 rick North of Green; Mrs. Weston, o. Glazier, Congregational church, Dr. Carpenter. East of Green, Deacon ] Turner and J. Turner Dr. Dickinson,
 and at house later owned by M. l..
 Dimock, Rev. MT PancrOft; as the house was at that time the parsonage. On the road sOuthward was SOlyman Taylor, w. Taylor, and the school Turning toward Daleville, we find the
 residence of J. Walker, Daniel FL
 dredge, Wm. and s. Holt, w. Sparks and
 A. Holt Elam Eldridge on the cross | road from Daniel Eldridge's south ward. s. Carpenter where Edward Eldridge now lives. On the road from
 the Baptist church southward toward
 Mansfield Four Corners; w. c. John
 son where now Peter Brand; Deacon VintOn, now MT. Pelican. R. Holt and
 David Eldridge on the road southeast; j;
 D. Calkins southeast of Ed EIdridge
 place, and J. Hull and c. Dawley southwest from Daleville. c. FentOn
 where now Charles Eldridge; i;
 and a school south; s. Hodges
 and H. Hole toward Mansfield Four ! Corners. The section north of West ! Wilmington has been mostly covered in ] previous paper. Population of Will ] lingtOn, 1850; 1888.
 JOEL N. EMO.