Mount Holly, Vermont, USA (Belmont) (Healdville) (Hortonville) (Tarbellville) (Mechanicsville)
1849 - Mount Holly

Rutland Co. Mill River, which rises in the south part of this township, and runs through the north-east corner of Wallingford and the south-west corner of Shrewsbury, and unites with Otter Creek in Clarendon, is the only stream of consequence. In the northeastern part is a considerable pond, called Palches Pond. In soil and timber It is similar to the mountain towns generally, being much better adapted to the production of grass than grain. On the summit of the Green Mountains is found amianthus, common and ligniform asbestos, and fossil leather. Its color is a grayish white, and it is very abundant. Ludlow mountain is a considerable elevation, lying along the line between Mount Holly and Ludlow.

Boundaries. North by Plymouth and Shrewsbury, east by Ludlow, south by Weston, and west l)y Wallingford and a part of Mount Tabor.

First Settlers. The settlement of Mount Holly was commenced in 1781, by Ichabod G., Stephen, and John Clark, Jonah. Amos, and Ebenezer Ives, from Connecticut, Jacob Wilcox, from Rhode Island, and Joseph Green, David Bent, Abraham Crowly, and Nathaniel Pingrey, from Massachusetts.

First Minister. Elder Parker was settled over the Baptist Church, in 1811.

Productions of the Soil. Wheat, 1,832 bushels ; Indian corn, 836 bushels ; potatoes, 65,930 bushels; hay, 5,317 tons; maple sugar, 44,120 pounds; wool, 8,342 pounds.

Distances. Sixty miles south-west from Montpelier, and seventeen southeast from Rutland.

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

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