Baltimore, Vermont, USA
1824 - Baltimore

BALTIMORE, a small township of a triangular form, lying in the south eastern part of Windsor county, in lat. 43° 21′ and bounded east by Weathersfield and Springfield, south by Chester, and northwest by Cavendish. It is 11 miles northwest from Windsor and 64 south from Montpelier. It was sett off from Cavendish by act of the Legislature, Oct. 19, 1793, and constituted a separate township. The town was organized March 12, 1794, and Joseph Atherton was first town clerk. It has never been represented in the General Assembly. The religious denominations are Congregationalist and Baptists. There is no meetinghouse in town, but the inhabitants own a third part of a good brick meetinghouse, which is situated near the line of this town, in the northwest part of Springfield. The town is well watered with springs and brooks, but has no good mill privileges or streams of much consequence. Hawk mountain lies between this town and Cavendish, renders the communication between the two towns difficult, and was the occasion of the division. The summit of this mountain is for the greater part of the distance the boundary line. The rocks are almost wholly Gneiss and Granit; the soil warm but stoney. The town has always been healthy. There was not a case of the spotted fever at the time it was epidemic in other parts of the state. There are two school districts with school houses in each. No mills in town. Pop. 1820, 204.

June, 1824

A Gazetteer of the State of Vermont Containing A Brief General View of The State, A Historical and Topographical Description of All the Counties, Towns, Rivers, &c. Together with a Map and Several Other Engraving by Zadock Thompson, 1824 Montpelier, Published by E. P. Walton and the Author E. P. Walton, Printer, 1824

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