Dummerston, Vermont, USA
1849 Dummerston

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 early formed here, over which the Rev. Thomas Farrer was settled in 1779 ; and in 1784 the Rev. Aaron Crosby was settled, and continued twenty years.

Productions of the Soil. Wheat, 907 bushels ; Indian corn, 8,270 bushels ; potatoes, 27,950 bushels; hay, 3,090 tons ; maple sugar, 7,220 pounds ; wool, 5,713 pounds.

Distances. Ninety miles south from Montpelier, and eight south-east from Newfane. The Connecticut River Railroad passes through this town.

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

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