History of Woodstock, Vermont, USA

Windsor Co. This is the shire town of the county. Woodstock is well watered by Queechy River and its branches.

The soil of the town is generally very fertile, with a pleasant surface of hills and vales. The agricultural productions are large and valuable.

"Woodstock Green," so called, is a beautiful village. It is the seat of a flourishing country trade, and contains many very handsome buildings. The court house, planned and built under the supervision of Ammi B. Young, Esq., a native architect of great promise, and the architect of the custom house in Boston, is one of the most chaste and classical structures in New England.

The South Village is neat and pleasant; it is about five miles from the "Green."

Woodstock is a delightful place of residence, and its growth in commerce and manufactures is such, as to warrant the construction of a branch railroad to the Central Railroad at Windsor.

Boundaries. North by Pomfret, east by Hartland, south by Reading, and west...

Woodstock, a post-township in Windsor co., Vermont, 65 miles S. by E. from Montpelier. Population, 3041.

Woodstock, the capital and largest village of Windsor county, is situated in the above township, on both sides of the Quechee or Otta Quechee river, near the junction of the North branch with the main stream. It is sur rounded with one of the finest agricultural regions of the state, for which it is the chief centre of trade. Its manufactures are also extensive and varied. By the construction of dams across the Quechee, the stream has been made to furnish an extensive hydraulic power. The public buildings are a court house, an imposing structure, adorned with a portico, and surmounted by a lofty tower, a jail, the Vermont Medical College, and churches of 5 denominations. The medical institution was founded by Br. Joseph A. Gallop, in 1827, under the name of the "Clinical School of Medicine," but not incorporated until 1835, at which time it received the title it now bears. In...