Vernon, Vermont, USA (North, South)
1849 - Vernon

Windham Co. Vernon lies on the west side of Connecticut River, opposite to Winchester, N. H. That River bends abruptly at this place, but in consequence of its elevated and rocky shore, affords comparatively little intervale.

The surface is generally mountainous and rocky. There are in the town fine forests of oak and chestnut timber, and quarries of slate.

Boundaries. North by Brattleborough, east by Connecticut River, which separates it from Hinsdale, N. H., south by Northfield, Mass., and west by Guilford.

First Settlers. This was one of the first settled towns in the State, but the precise time of its commencement is not known. The earliest inhabitants were emigrants from Northampton and Northfield, Mass. The inhabitants of Vernon encountered all the dangers and solicitudes of Indian wars, and struggled with all those difficulties and hardships which are incident to frontier settlements. Fort Dummer, in Brattleborough, Hinsdale's Fort, in Hinsdale, and Bridgman's Fort, in this town, were all insufficient to shield the inhabitants from the incursions of the Indians.

First Ministers. The Baptists are the most numerous religious sect. A meeting-house was erected here in 1802. Elder David Newman, a Baptist, has officiated a number of years. The Rev. Bunker Gay, a Congregationalist, was ordained over the churches in this town and Hinsdale, N. H., in 1764, and dismissed in 1802.

Productions of the Soil. Wheat, 127 bushels; Indian corn, 5,910 bushels; potatoes, 7,955 bushels ; hay, 970 tons ; maple sugar, 300 pounds ; wool, 1,965 pounds.

Distances. Eighteen miles south-east from Newfane, and about fifty miles south from Windsor.

The Connecticut River Railroad passes through the town.

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

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