Windsor, Vermont, USA
1854 - Windsor

Windsor, a beautiful and flourishing post- village of Windsor county, Vermont, at the union of the Sullivan and the Vermont Central railroads, 77 miles S. S. E. from Montpelier. The site comprises the western verge of an alluvial meadow about a quarter of a mile wide, bordering on the Connecticut, and terminated on the S. and 8. W. by Millbrook, and by Pulkhole Brook on the N. and N. W. The scenery is exceedingly varied and picturesque, the view embracing Ascutney mountain, only 3 miles distant. The village is handsomely and somewhat compactly built. The streets are beautifully shaded, and many of the dwellings are enclosed by highly ornamented grounds. The principal avenue is very serpentine, making as many as four considerable angles in passing from the northern to its southern limit, the effect being that not more than one-third of the village can be seen from any one point of view. Windsor is the seat of the Vermont State Prison, besides which it contains a bank, 2 newspaper offices, a seminary for young ladies and gentlemen, 3 or 4 churches, and 10 or 12 stores. It carries on an active trade by the Connecticut, and is also in the centre of one of the finest agricultural and wool-growing sections of the state. For the purpose of securing an available water-power, a dam, 360 feet in length and 42 in height, was constructed across Millbrook in 1835, about half a mile from its entrance into the Connecticut. The entire fall is 60 feet in one-third of a mile. In 1814, Windsor and West Windsor were incorporated as two distinct towns, reunited in 1815, and incorporated a second time in 1848. Population, 1928.

A New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States: Giving a Full and Comprehensive Review of the Present Condition, Industry, and Resources of the American Confederacy ... Thomas Baldwin (of Philadelphia.) Joseph Thomas January 1, 1854 Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & Company 1854.

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