Berlin, Vermont, USA (Berlin Corners) (Montpelier Junction) (West Berlin)
1849 Berlin

Washington Co. This is a pleasant town, watered by Winooski and Dog Rivers, Stevens' Branch, and a number of ponds, furnishing good mill sites, and excellent fishing. The land is somewhat broken, but of strong soil and good for tillage. Considerable manufactures are produced in this town.

There is a mineral spring here of little note.

There is considerable intervale on Winooski and Dog River and Stevens' Branch. The timber, west of Dog River, is a mixture of spruce, hemlock, maple, beach, birch, basswood, and ash ; east of that, principally bard wood, excepting in the vicinity of the pond and streams. On a ridge of land south of the centre, is some butternut, and east of the pond, considerable cedar and fir. Iron ore has recently been discovered a little east of Dog River, near which place terre de sena has been found of good quality. The town has been generally very healthy.

Boundaries. North by Montpelier, east by Barre, south by Northfield and a small part of Wiliiamstown, and west by Moretown.

First Settlers. A settlement was commenced here in 1785, near the mouth of Dog River, by Ebenezer Sanburne from Corinth, and Joseph Thurlier from New Hampshire. The next year Jacob Fowler removed here, and was the first permanent settler.

First Minister. Rev. James Hobart was settled over the Congregationalist Society in 1798, and dismissed in 1829.

Productions of the Soil. Wheat, 2,510 bushels; Indian corn, 7,182 bushels; potatoes, 83,734 bushels: hay; 1,232 tons; maple sugar, 29,175 pounds; wool, 14,647 pounds.

Distances. Four miles south from Montpelier. A railroad passes near the town.

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

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