Hyde Park, Vermont, USA (Hydepark)
1849 Hydepark

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 natives, if the "Iron Horse" should soon take a trip this way, to assist them in their laudable pursuits.

Boundaries. Northerly by Eden, easterly by Wolcott, and a small part of Craftsbury, southerly by Morristown, and westerly by Johnson, and a
part of Belvidere.

First Settlers. The settlement of this township was commenced by John McDaniel, Esq., who removed his family here July 4, 1787. He emigrated from Northfield, N. H. At this time the nearest settlements were at Johnson on the west, and at Cabot on the east ; the former distant eight miles and the latter about twenty-six. The intervening country was a perfect wilderness, With no road or guide except inarked trees. Through this wilderness Mr. McDaniel conveyed his family from Cabot to Hydepark, He was joined the same season by William Norton, from New York; and those two families were the first and only families who wintered in town that year. The next spring they were joined by Capt. Jedediah Hyde, Peter Martin, Jabez Fitch, Esq., and sons, and Ephraim Garvin. These pioneers were followed in a few years by Aaron Keeler, Truman Sawyer, Oliver Noyes, and Hon. N. P. Sawyer and others. The first settlers experienced all the privations usual in a wilderness. They were under the necessity of getting their milling done at Cambridge, eighteen miles distant. The town was named Hyde's Park in the charter, as a compliment to Capt. Jedediah Hyde, the first named in that instrument.

Productions of the Soil. Wheat, 2,185 bushels; Indian corn, 3,533 bushels; potatoes, 47,816 bushels; hay, 2,501 tons; maple sugar, 32,570 pounds; wool, 7,132 pounds.

Distances. Twenty-seven miles north from Montpelier.


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

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