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Gazetteer of Vermont
by John Hayward
pub: Tappan, Whittemore, and Mason 
     114 Washington Street, Boston - 1849
source: Library of Congress


        Pg 28
        
        BERLIN
        
        Washington Co. This is a pleasant town, watered by Winooski
      and Dog Rivers, Stevens' Branch, and a number of ponds, furn-
      ishing good mill sites, and excellent fishing. The land is
      somewhat broken, but of strong soil and good for tillage. 
      Considerable manufactures are produced in this town.
      
        There is a mineral spring here of little note.
        
        There is considerable intervale on the Winooski and Dog
      River and Stevens' Branch. The timber, west of Dog River, is
      a mixture of spruce, hemlock, maple, beach, birch, basswood,
      and ash; east of that, principally hard wood, excepting in the
      vicinity of the pond and streams. On a ridge of land south of
      the centre, is some butternut, and east of the pond, consider-
      able cedar and fir. Iron ore has recently been discovered a
      little east of Dog River, near which place terre de sena has
      been found of good quality. The town has been generally very
      healthy.
      
        Boundaries. North by Montpelier, east by Barre, south by
      Northfield and a small part of Williamstown, and west by
      Moretown.
      
        First Settlers. A settlement was commenced here in 1785,
      near the mouth of Dog River, by EBENZER SANBURNE from Corinth,
      and JOSEPH THURBER from New Hampshire. The next year JACOB
      FOWLER removed here, and was the first permanent settler.
      
        First Minister. REV. JAMES HOBART was settled over the Con-
      gregationalist Society in 1798, and dismissed in 1829.
      
        Productions of the Soil. Wheat, 2,510 bushels; Indian corn,
      7,182 bushels; potatoes, 83,734 bushels; hay, 1,232 tons;
      maple sugar, 29,175 pounds; wool, 14,647 pounds.
      
        Distances. Four miles south from Montpelier. A railroad
      passes near the town.
      
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