Arlington, Vermont, USA (East Arlington)
1849 - Arlington

Bennington Co. This town was chartered in 1761. The time of its organization is not known, as one Bisco, a tory, the town clerk in 1777. destroyed the records. It is finely watered by Green River, Mill and Warm Brooks, and Roaring Branch, which fall into the Battenkill, at the north part of the town. These streams afford excellent mill sites, and on their banks are large bodies of superior meadow land.

West and Red Mountains extend through the west part of the town, and supply a great variety of good timber. Excellent marble is found here ; considerable quantities of which are wrought and transported.

Here is a medicinal spring, and a cavern of large dimensions. The spring is not of much note, but the cavern is a great curiosity.

Thi3 is a flourishing town in both its agricultural and manufacturing pursuits.

Boundaries. North by Landgate, east by Sunderland, south by Shaftsbury, and west by Salem.

First Settlers. The first settlement was made in the year 1 763, by Dr. Simon Burton, William Searls, and Ebenezer Wallis. In 1764, Jehiel Hawley, Josiah Hawley, Remember Baker, and Thomas Peck, removed into this town. The former was a principal land owner, and has left in this place a numerous and respectable posterity,

First Minister. An Episcopal Society was organized here some years before the Revolution, which has existed ever since. The records of this church, which is called Saint James Church, go back to Aug. 16th, 1784. The first rector of this church was the Rev. James Nichols, settled in 1786.

Productions of the Soil. wheat, 743 bushels; Indian corn, 5,145 bushels; potatoes, 211,212 bushels: hay, 4,631 tons ; maple sugar, 7,420 pounds ; wool, 27,750 pounds.

Distances. Fifteen miles north from Bennington, and 106 south-west from Montpelier.

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

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