Morgan, Vermont, USA (Morgan Center)
1849 - Morgan

Orleans Co. The surface of the town consists of swells and valleys, and is mostly susceptible of cultivation. Timber generally hard wood. Soil good. A head branch of Clyde River, called Farrand's River, passes through the east part of Morgan ; and Seymour's Lake, which is about four miles long and nearly two wide, lies in the central part. It discharges its waters to the south, through Echo Pond, into Clyde River.

Boundaries. North by Holland and a part of Derby, easterly by Wenlock and Warner's Gore, and south-west by Charleston and Salem.

First Stttler. The settlement of this township was commenced about the the year 1800 by Nathan Wilcox.

First Minister. A Conjrregational Church was orfranized here in 1823.

Productions of the Soil. Wheat, 1,617 bushels; Indian corn, 303 bushels: potatoes, 17,675 bushels: hay, 1.037 tons; maple sugar, 16,102 pounds; wool, 1,889 pounds.

Distances. Eighteen miles northeast from Irasburgh, and sixty-northeast from Montpelier.

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

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