Tunbridge, Vermont, USA (North, South) (Blood Village) (Market) (Jigger)
1849 - Tunbridge

Orange Co. A branch of White River passes through this town, on which are mills of various kinds. The soil is generally a rich loam ; on the stream the intervale land is extensive and valuable. In some parts of the town the surface is elevated.

Tunbridge contains a medicinal spring of some notoriety in cutaneous diseases. Considerable quantities of the products of the farms are sent to market.

There arc three pleasant villages situated -on the first branch of White River.

Boundaries. North by Chelsea, east by Strafford, south by Royalton, and west by Randolph.

First Settlers. The settlement of the township was commenced about the year J 776, by James Lyon, Moses Ordway, and others, emigrants from New Hampshire.

First Minister. Rev. David H. Williston was ordained over the Congregational Church in 1793, and dismissed in 1802,

Productions of the Soil. Wheat, 3,310 bushels ; Indian corn, 7,620 bushels j potatoes, 67,705 bushels ; hay, 3,430 tons 5 maple sugar, 31,670 pounds ; wool, 18,905 pounds.

Distances. Twenty-six miles south by east from Montpelier, and seven south from Chelsea.

This town is in the neighborhood of the Northern and Connecticut River Railroads.

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

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