History of Dummerston, Vermont, USA

Dummerston, Vermont
Windham county. West river passes through this town and gives it a good water power. The surface is rough and hilly, but adapted to grazing. Black mountain, near the centre, is a vast body of granite. Good slate for buildings, and primitive limestone are found. There are in Dummerston some manufacturing concerns and a considerable number of sheep. Population, 1830, 1,592: 90 miles S. from Montpelier, and 8 S.E. from Newfane.

Windham Co. This township is watered by West River, which enters it from Newfane, and passes through it in a south-easterly direction into Brattleborough, and by several small streams, some of which fall into this river and others into the Connecticut, affording a considerable number of good sites for mills. The surface of Dummerston is broken. The rocks, which constitute Black Mountain, near the centre of the town are an immense body of granite. A range of argillaceous slate passes through it from south to north, and is considerably quarried for roof slate and grave stones. Primitive limestone occurs in beds. Specimens of tremolite, limpid quartz, and galena, or the sulphuret of lead, are also found here. This is one of the oldest towns in the state.

Boundaries. North by Putney and Brookline, east by Connecticut River, which separates it from Westmoreland, N. H., south by Brattleborough, and west by a part of Marlborough and Newfane.

First Ministers. A Congregational Church was ...

Dummerston, a post-township of Windham county, Vermont, 100 miles S. of Montpelier. Population, 1645.

DUMMERSTON, a township in Windham co., in the state of Vermont, 115 m. S by E of Montpelier. Pop. 1,263.

Dum'merston, a post-village of Windham co, Vt., in Dummerston township, on the Central Vermont Railroad, 5 miles N. of Brattleborough. It has 2 churches, granite quarries, and furniture-mills. Pop. of the township, 860.

Albert Clement Drowned in Connecticut River
COMPANION COULD NOT SAVE HIM
Men Were Returning to Dummerston from the "Jack" Allen Resort in Chesterfield, N. H.
(Special to The Messenger)
Brattleboro, Nov. 19 - Albert Clement, employed by Charles Walker, of Dummerston, fell from a ferry boat into the Connecticut river last night and was drowned. Clement had been to the "Jack" Allen resort in Chesterfield, N. H., across the river from Dummerston, and was returning when a companion saw him fall into the river, but was powerless to aid him. The body was not seen again and on account of the darkness it is not known whether he came to the surface or not. Clement was about 25 years old. He had no family and the place of his home is not known.

Dummerston, a post- village of Windham co., Vt, in Dummerston township (town), on the Central Vermont R., 5 miles N. of Brattleboro. Pop. of the town in 1900, 726.