St Albans, Vermont, USA
1849 St. Albans

FRANKLIN Co. This is the shire town. The soil of St. Albans is fertile, and under the management of good farmers, is rendered very productive. The exports of wool, and other productions of the soil, are large and valuable.

The water communications by the lake to New York and Canada, render St. Albans a mart of considerable trade from the surrounding country. The first vessel from Lake Champlain that arrived at New York, by the northern canal was from, built, and owned at St. Albans.

The village of St. Albans is beautifully situated on elevated ground, and commands a fine prospect. It contains many handsome buildings, and is a busy place in the manufacture of various articles. It lies three miles from the lake, and fifteen from the line of Canada.

Boundaries. North by Swanton, east by Fairfield, south by Georgia, and west by Lake Champlain. a part of which separates it from North Hero.

First Settlers. J. Walder is supposed to have been the first civilized person who settled in this town. He removed here during the revolutionary war, and began improvements at the bay. There was no addition to the settlement until 1785, when Andrew Potter emigrated to the town, and from that time the settlement advanced rapidly, by emigrants from the south part of this State, and from the other other States of New England. Among the earliest settlers were the families of Messrs. Potter, Morrill, Gibbs, Green and Meigs.

First Minister. Rev. Jonathan Nye was settled over the Congregational Church, from 1807 to 1810.

Productions of the Soil. Wheat, 5,250 bushels ; Indian corn, 7,112 bushels : potatoes, 33,325 bushels; hay, 5,180 tons ; maple sugar, 5,000 pounds : wool, 39,175 pounds.

Distances. Forty-six miles northwest by noi-th from Montpelier, and twenty-five north from Burlington.

The business of this place will be greatly enhanced, by the passage through it of the Burlington and Montreal Railroad.

A gazetteer of Vermont... by John Hayward Boston - Tappan, Whittemore, and Mason 1849

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