Morristown, Vermont, USA (Morrisville)
1849 Morristown

Lamoille Co. The soil of this town is of a good quality, and easily cultivated. Morristown is, in point of agricultural products, the second in the county. The timber is maple, beech, birch, hemlock, &c. The Lamoille River enters the town near the north-east comer, passing by Morrisville and Cadysville, and after running four miles in the north part of the town, returns into Hydepark. Along this river, in Morristown. are some fine tracts of intervale, and on it are two excellent mill sites. There are several other streams in town on which mills are erected.

Morrisville is a pleasant, flourishing village, situated near the Great Falls. Here is one of the finest situations for manufacturing establishments which the State affords. At the falls a few rods west of the village, may be found curious specimens of the wonder working power of water, in wearing holes into the solid rock, some of which are nearly eight feet deep and four feet broad. The river at this place pours itself into a channel cut directly across the stream, twenty feet deep and thirty broad. This channel the early settlers denominated the pulpit, from the resemblance of the rocks at the north
end to that structure. On the west side of this chasm the rocks rise perpendicularly to the height of thirty feet ; and the beholder, while standing on the edge of this precipice, sees the whole body of the river plunged down at his feet into this boiling cauldron, from which it escapes through a channel at the south end, and immediately spreading itself out. encircles numerous islands, whose high, jagged points are covered with a thick growth of cedar and fir, and altogether presenting a scene of grandeur and beauty seldom found surpassed. Cadysville is situated two miles below Morrisville, and bids fair to become a place of considerable business. At the centre of the town is a small village, pleasantly located, and wanting only the facilities of water power, to make it the principal place of business. In the southeast corner of the town is a pond called Joes Pond, from an old Indian pensioner who lived by the side of it.

The People's Academy, in this town, was incorporated in 1847.

Boundaries. Northerly by Hydepark, easterly by Elmore, southerly by Stowe, and westerly by Sterling.

First Settlers. This settlement was commenced in the spring of 1790, by Mr. Jacob Walker, who came from Bennington.

First Minister. The first sermon preached in town was by the Rev. Mr. Bogue, a missionary, in the summer of 1798.

Productions of the Soil. Wheat, 3,454 bushels; Indian corn, 5,614 bushels; potatoes, 66,720 bushels ; hay, 5,095 tons ; maple sugar, 44,120 pounds ; wool, 8.342 pounds.

Distances. Three miles south from Hydepark, and thirty miles north from Montpelier.

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

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