History of Hyde Park, Vermont, USA

Hyde Park, Vermont
Lamoille county. County town. The Lamoille, Green, and other rivers give this town a great water power, some of which is advantageously improved. The soil is generally of a good quality and easily cultivated. It lies 24 miles N. from Montpelier and 32 N.E. from Burlington. Population, 1830, 823. First settled, 1787.

Lamoille Co. Hydepark is the county town. The Lamoille, Green, and other rivers give this town a great water power, some of which is advantageously improved. The soil is generally of a good quality and easily cultivated.

There are in the north-east part of the town twelve ponds, containing from one half to fifty acres, beside several smaller ones. Trout have been abundant in most of them, but are becoming more scarce. Some of them have names, such as Great Pond, Clear Pond, George's Pond, Zack's Pond, Mud Pond, &c.

Hydepark village is situated in the south-west part of the town, on a beautiful elevated plain ; it contains a court house, jail, and jail house, built in 1836, by the inhabitants of the town, at which time it became the seat of justice for Lamoille County.

This town, having so valuable a water power, and being surrounded by a country rich in agricultural and mineral productions, and rapidly increasing in its manufacturing interest, it would not surprise the...

Hydepark, a post-village, capital of Lamoille co., Vermont, on the road from Troy to Waterbury, 28 miles N. of Montpelier. It contains a court house, a jail, 1 church, 3 stores, 2 taverns, 1 saw mill, and various manufacturing establishments. Population, about 260; of the township, 1107.

The other day, during a thunder shower, Eli got pretty wet and started from the hay field to the house, when the lighning descended and having nothing else to do tore a hole through Eli's straw hat, and then quietly trickled down his back into the mother earth. Jewet was slighly nonplussed as to what was the matter, but finally concluded that a mosquito had kicked him, and passed quietly along.

Hyde Park, a post-village, capital of Lamoille co., Vt., in Hyde Park township, on the Lamoille River, and on the Vermont division of the Portland & Ogdensburg Railroad, 52 miles W.N.W. of St. Johnsbury, and about 26 miles N. of Montpelier. It has the Lamoille Central Academy, a court-house, 5 churches, a national bank, a savings bank, a newspaper office, and manufactures of carriages, lumber, butter-tubs, and hard wood flooring. It is surrounded by beautiful scenery. Pop. of the township, 1633.

(Special to The Messenger.)

Morrisville, Aug. 6. - Charles Gorzey, of Johnson, a man 84 years old, was struck by the way freight just below Hyde Park Saturday afternoon and probably fatally injured. He had been berrying and was standing near the track when the train passed, being struck by one of the cars and hurled into the ditch, a distance of several feet. He was injured about the head and side. Dr. C. S. Leach, of Hyde Park, was called and the man was made as comfortable as possible and taken to his home in Johnson. Doctor Leach came from Johnson this morning and said the patient was not as well and probably would live only a short time.

While playing with a rifle Isadore Whitcomb, the thirteen-year-old daughter of Charles Whitcomb, of Hyde Park, received a shot in the right eye, inflicting a wound so severe that it was necessary to remove the eye.

A fire that started in the county jail at Hyde Park yesterday spread until the jail, court-house, town hall, Congregational church, one store and 13 residences or tenements had been laid to ashes. Twenty families are homeless. The damage is estimated at $100,000. Originating presumably from a defective stovepipe between the first and second stories of the jail, the fire gained headway so rapidly that efforts to save the building were soon seen to be useless and attention was directed to endangered neighboring structures. The two prisoners, both minor offenders whom the jail held, were released, and with a will they turned to fight the flames. help was summoned from Morristown, Johnson and Stowe, all of which sent their entire fire-fighting forces to aid. Their combined efforts, however, could not prevent the spread of the flames for several hours. When finally under control an area half a mile long on the main street had been swept by the fire. Hyde Park is the seat of Lamoille...