Stockbridge, Vermont, USA (Gaysville)
1849 - Stockbridge

Windsor Co. White River runs through the northerly part of this town, and in its passage receives the fourth branch, or Tweed River, from the west. The mill privileges are sufficiently numerous, but those at the Great Narrows in White River are the best. The whole river is here compressed into a channel but a few feet in width. Steatite is found here.

Boundaries. Northerly by Bethel, easterly by Barnard, southerly by Sherburne, and westerly by Pittsfield.

First Settlers. The settlement of Stockbridge was commenced in 1784, and 1785 by Asa Whitcomb, Elias Keyes, John Durkee and Joshua Bartlet, with their families.

First Minister. The Rev. Justin Parsons was settled over the Congregational Church in this town and Pittsfield September 15, 1812. He continued till 1827.

Productions of the Soil Wheat, 1 ,746 bushels; Indian corn, 4,982 bushels; potatoes, 42,680 bushels; hay, 4,057 tons ; maple sugar, 34,320 pounds ; wool, 18,005 pounds.

Distances. Thirty-six miles south by west from Montpelier, and twenty-six north-west from Windsor. The great Northern Railroad passes through the neighboring town of Bethel.

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

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