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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 21
        
        ATHENS
        
        Windham Co.  This town was first settled in 1780, by people 
      from Rindge, N.H., and Winchendon, Mass. The encountered great
      hardships. "The snow was four feet deep when they came into town;
      and they had to beat their own path for eight miles through the
      woods. A small yoke of oxen were the only domestic animals that
      they took with them."
      
        This is a good township of land, particularly for grazing.
        
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      Here are productive orchards, pine timber, and a small mill stream.
      
        Boundaries. North by Grafton, east by Westminster and Rockingham,
      south by Brookline and Townshend, and west by Townshend.
      
        First Settlers. The first beginnings towards a settlement in this
      town were made in the fall of 1779, by JONATHAN PERHAM, SETH OAKES,
      JOSEPH BASIER, JAMES SHAFTER, and JONATHAN FOSTER. 
      
        Productions of the Soil. Wheat, 501 bushels; Indian corn, 1,885
      bushels; potatoes, 10,035 bushels; hay, 966 tons; maple sugar, 6,470
      pounds; wool, 5,387 pounds.
      
        Distances. Forty miles north-east from Bennington, ninety-eight
      south from Montpelier, fourteen north from Newfane, and ten miles
      from Bellows Falls.
      
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