Book/Printed Material History of the Missisco Valley
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Image 1 of History of the Missisco Valley- Contributor: Orleans County Natural and Civil Historical Society (Orleans County, Vt.) - Hall, S. R. (Samuel Read) - Sumner, Samuel
- Date: 1860
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Image 2 of History of the Missisco Valley Oass. 11 Rnnk hkrsa- Contributor: Orleans County Natural and Civil Historical Society (Orleans County, Vt.) - Hall, S. R. (Samuel Read) - Sumner, Samuel
- Date: 1860
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Image 3 of History of the Missisco Valley- Contributor: Orleans County Natural and Civil Historical Society (Orleans County, Vt.) - Hall, S. R. (Samuel Read) - Sumner, Samuel
- Date: 1860
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Image 4 of History of the Missisco Valley- Contributor: Orleans County Natural and Civil Historical Society (Orleans County, Vt.) - Hall, S. R. (Samuel Read) - Sumner, Samuel
- Date: 1860
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Image 5 of History of the Missisco Valley r Ml^SISiU) VALLEY.- Contributor: Orleans County Natural and Civil Historical Society (Orleans County, Vt.) - Hall, S. R. (Samuel Read) - Sumner, Samuel
- Date: 1860
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Image 6 of History of the Missisco Valley- Contributor: Orleans County Natural and Civil Historical Society (Orleans County, Vt.) - Hall, S. R. (Samuel Read) - Sumner, Samuel
- Date: 1860
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Image 7 of History of the Missisco Valley HISTORY OF THL MISSISCO VALLEY. 37 BY SAMUEL SUMNER, M. A. ^^7 WITH AN INTRODUCTORY NOTICE OF ORLEANS COUNTY, BY REV. S. R. HALL. PUBLISHED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE ORLEANS COUNTY…- Contributor: Orleans County Natural and Civil Historical Society (Orleans County, Vt.) - Hall, S. R. (Samuel Read) - Sumner, Samuel
- Date: 1860
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Image 8 of History of the Missisco Valley 9U ^7- Contributor: Orleans County Natural and Civil Historical Society (Orleans County, Vt.) - Hall, S. R. (Samuel Read) - Sumner, Samuel
- Date: 1860
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Image 9 of History of the Missisco Valley PEEFACE. The objects of the Orleans County Natural and Civil JIiSTORiCAL Society, formed in 1853, are expressed in the first Article of the Constitution to be, to promote the study of Natural…- Contributor: Orleans County Natural and Civil Historical Society (Orleans County, Vt.) - Hall, S. R. (Samuel Read) - Sumner, Samuel
- Date: 1860
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Image 10 of History of the Missisco Valley ORLEANS COUNTY. This County is situated in the central part of Northern Vermont being bounded on the North by Canada East, on the South by Caledonia, on the East by Essex, and…- Contributor: Orleans County Natural and Civil Historical Society (Orleans County, Vt.) - Hall, S. R. (Samuel Read) - Sumner, Samuel
- Date: 1860
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Image 11 of History of the Missisco Valley and Brownington, were constituted half-shire towns. When the new county Lamoille was constituted, three towns were embraced in the limits of that county, and the area of Orleans was diminished by more…- Contributor: Orleans County Natural and Civil Historical Society (Orleans County, Vt.) - Hall, S. R. (Samuel Read) - Sumner, Samuel
- Date: 1860
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Image 12 of History of the Missisco Valley fish, to the Indians, hunters and early settlers*. They also were the home of numerous beaver and otter; while the meadows on the numerous rivers, furnished rich pasture to moose and deer,…- Contributor: Orleans County Natural and Civil Historical Society (Orleans County, Vt.) - Hall, S. R. (Samuel Read) - Sumner, Samuel
- Date: 1860
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Image 13 of History of the Missisco Valley Cultivated lands in Holland, Greensboro Westmore and a portion of Glover, vary from 1100 to 1500 feet above the ocean. Most of the lands lying on the rivers, vary from 700 to…- Contributor: Orleans County Natural and Civil Historical Society (Orleans County, Vt.) - Hall, S. R. (Samuel Read) - Sumner, Samuel
- Date: 1860
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Image 14 of History of the Missisco Valley 8 substance has already filled the basins of many original ponds, and those formed by beavers and is rapidly accumulating on the borders of many others. Beneath many of these beds of…- Contributor: Orleans County Natural and Civil Historical Society (Orleans County, Vt.) - Hall, S. R. (Samuel Read) - Sumner, Samuel
- Date: 1860
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Image 15 of History of the Missisco Valley 9 the upper valley of Conuecticui river. The Memphremagog lake and other large bodies of water moditj the temperature^ and the average range of the thermometer at Craftsbury, Brownington and Derby, is…- Contributor: Orleans County Natural and Civil Historical Society (Orleans County, Vt.) - Hall, S. R. (Samuel Read) - Sumner, Samuel
- Date: 1860
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Image 16 of History of the Missisco Valley 10 an important revenue of saccharine secretions, conducive alike to health, pleasure and profit. The noble pine, formerly abundant, has, alas, suflfered so much from Vajidal extirpators, as hardly to have a…- Contributor: Orleans County Natural and Civil Historical Society (Orleans County, Vt.) - Hall, S. R. (Samuel Read) - Sumner, Samuel
- Date: 1860
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Image 17 of History of the Missisco Valley MISSISCO VALLEY. I. GEOGRAPHY. The upper valley of the Missisco, comprising the towns of Troy, Westfield, Jay, Lowell, and a small portion of the Province of Canada, lies between the Western range…- Contributor: Orleans County Natural and Civil Historical Society (Orleans County, Vt.) - Hall, S. R. (Samuel Read) - Sumner, Samuel
- Date: 1860
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Image 18 of History of the Missisco Valley 12 line about two miles in length. The town of Lowell lies South of both Troy and Westfield, and is still more irregular in its form, being almost in the shape of…- Contributor: Orleans County Natural and Civil Historical Society (Orleans County, Vt.) - Hall, S. R. (Samuel Read) - Sumner, Samuel
- Date: 1860
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Image 19 of History of the Missisco Valley 13 first which occurs is the Beadle Brook, named from an early settler, who erected his cabin in the wilderness on its banks. This stream also rises in Newport, and running West,…- Contributor: Orleans County Natural and Civil Historical Society (Orleans County, Vt.) - Hall, S. R. (Samuel Read) - Sumner, Samuel
- Date: 1860
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Image 20 of History of the Missisco Valley 14 of Mount Norris, unite near Lowell village and form the Missisco river. The Eastern branch, just before its junction with the other, runs over a series of rapids or ledges, afford-…- Contributor: Orleans County Natural and Civil Historical Society (Orleans County, Vt.) - Hall, S. R. (Samuel Read) - Sumner, Samuel
- Date: 1860
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Image 21 of History of the Missisco Valley 15 water, from the overhanging cliff, is filled with awe at the wild sublimity and grandeur of the scene. The river then runs to the village of North Troy, where there is…- Contributor: Orleans County Natural and Civil Historical Society (Orleans County, Vt.) - Hall, S. R. (Samuel Read) - Sumner, Samuel
- Date: 1860
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Image 22 of History of the Missisco Valley 16 expect a succession of liigh, precipitoui? cliffs for river banks/ and a channel abounding with precipices and water falls but instead of this, the river from Troy to Richford, passing the…- Contributor: Orleans County Natural and Civil Historical Society (Orleans County, Vt.) - Hall, S. R. (Samuel Read) - Sumner, Samuel
- Date: 1860
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Image 23 of History of the Missisco Valley 17 The valley is of easy access from abroad, notwithstanding the chains of mountains which appear to surround and hem it in. The most uneven and difficult roads leading into it, are…- Contributor: Orleans County Natural and Civil Historical Society (Orleans County, Vt.) - Hall, S. R. (Samuel Read) - Sumner, Samuel
- Date: 1860
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Image 24 of History of the Missisco Valley 18 iThis is a gold bearing rock, and gold has been found in it. The most striking features of the valley are the immense ranges of serpentine and soapstone. There are two…- Contributor: Orleans County Natural and Civil Historical Society (Orleans County, Vt.) - Hall, S. R. (Samuel Read) - Sumner, Samuel
- Date: 1860
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Image 25 of History of the Missisco Valley 19 Several mineral springs have been discovered, and they appear to be impregnated more or less with sulphur and iron, some with magnesia. Most of them are of little or no value.…- Contributor: Orleans County Natural and Civil Historical Society (Orleans County, Vt.) - Hall, S. R. (Samuel Read) - Sumner, Samuel
- Date: 1860
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Image 26 of History of the Missisco Valley 20 town, to Thomas Chittenden, the first governor of this State. It would probably be a curious piece of history, if we could know the motives which were urged, and the intrigues…- Contributor: Orleans County Natural and Civil Historical Society (Orleans County, Vt.) - Hall, S. R. (Samuel Read) - Sumner, Samuel
- Date: 1860
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Image 27 of History of the Missisco Valley 21 might have realized a handsome profit from the lands titles would have been better, a fruitful source of speculation and knavery prevented, a vast amount of suffering and privation avoided, and…- Contributor: Orleans County Natural and Civil Historical Society (Orleans County, Vt.) - Hall, S. R. (Samuel Read) - Sumner, Samuel
- Date: 1860
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Image 28 of History of the Missisco Valley 22 In Jay a portion of the town granted to Governor Chit« tenden, is still owned by his descendants a part of their grant has been sold mostly within a few years.…- Contributor: Orleans County Natural and Civil Historical Society (Orleans County, Vt.) - Hall, S. R. (Samuel Read) - Sumner, Samuel
- Date: 1860
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Image 29 of History of the Missisco Valley !23 which Captain Moses Elkins, a brother of Josiah Elkins, was one, came up and explored the county. They agreed to come hither and settle, but none of them except Captain Elkins…- Contributor: Orleans County Natural and Civil Historical Society (Orleans County, Vt.) - Hall, S. R. (Samuel Read) - Sumner, Samuel
- Date: 1860
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Image 30 of History of the Missisco Valley 24 Curtis Elkius remained with his family during the winter in this house. Josiah Elkins moved from Greensboro into Potton, Feb, 26, 1799, with his wife and three children, and moved into…- Contributor: Orleans County Natural and Civil Historical Society (Orleans County, Vt.) - Hall, S. R. (Samuel Read) - Sumner, Samuel
- Date: 1860
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Image 31 of History of the Missisco Valley 25 Col. Ruyter had recently established, at his residence down the river, a store of goods, which, according to the custom of those days, consisted principally of groceries. The colonists, numbering fifteen…- Contributor: Orleans County Natural and Civil Historical Society (Orleans County, Vt.) - Hall, S. R. (Samuel Read) - Sumner, Samuel
- Date: 1860
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Image 32 of History of the Missisco Valley 26 brightest hopes of the valley were decently and sorrowfully consigned to the parent dust. Three or four weeks after- wards, Judge Olds who had settled in Westfield, and who had formerly…- Contributor: Orleans County Natural and Civil Historical Society (Orleans County, Vt.) - Hall, S. R. (Samuel Read) - Sumner, Samuel
- Date: 1860
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Image 33 of History of the Missisco Valley 27 cised her skill in a more dignified profession, and her intro- duction to the whites was rather curious. In the fall or beginning of the winter in 1799, one of the…- Contributor: Orleans County Natural and Civil Historical Society (Orleans County, Vt.) - Hall, S. R. (Samuel Read) - Sumner, Samuel
- Date: 1860
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Image 34 of History of the Missisco Valley 28 resided some miles off, near the Lake. She was sent for, and came and built her camp near by, and undertook the case, and the hand was restored. Her medicine was…- Contributor: Orleans County Natural and Civil Historical Society (Orleans County, Vt.) - Hall, S. R. (Samuel Read) - Sumner, Samuel
- Date: 1860
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Image 35 of History of the Missisco Valley 29 The town of Troy, or as it was then called Missisco, was organized in March, 1802. According to the town record, the inhabitants were warned to meet on March 25, 1302,…- Contributor: Orleans County Natural and Civil Historical Society (Orleans County, Vt.) - Hall, S. R. (Samuel Read) - Sumner, Samuel
- Date: 1860
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Image 36 of History of the Missisco Valley 30 towns on the Connecticut river, many from New Hampshire,, and several were from Lyme. Although there were many worthy persons among them, many able, substantial men who were pioneers in the…- Contributor: Orleans County Natural and Civil Historical Society (Orleans County, Vt.) - Hall, S. R. (Samuel Read) - Sumner, Samuel
- Date: 1860
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Image 37 of History of the Missisco Valley 31 the present main road. Here he built a log house and moved his wife and family to his solitary home, and here his wife passed one winter with him, without having…- Contributor: Orleans County Natural and Civil Historical Society (Orleans County, Vt.) - Hall, S. R. (Samuel Read) - Sumner, Samuel
- Date: 1860
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Image 38 of History of the Missisco Valley 32 setts, to Westfield, in the fall of 1803. During his journey he was detained by the sickness of his wife, and arrived at Craftsbury late in November. Being impatient to complete…- Contributor: Orleans County Natural and Civil Historical Society (Orleans County, Vt.) - Hall, S. R. (Samuel Read) - Sumner, Samuel
- Date: 1860
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Image 39 of History of the Missisco Valley 33 could hardly aspire to the dignity of a hovel. It consisted of logs laid up on three sides only, and was open at one end for a fire and entrance, and…- Contributor: Orleans County Natural and Civil Historical Society (Orleans County, Vt.) - Hall, S. R. (Samuel Read) - Sumner, Samuel
- Date: 1860
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Image 40 of History of the Missisco Valley 34 not move his family into the town until a year or two after. A few families followed him one or two years afterwards, but the town was not organized until the…- Contributor: Orleans County Natural and Civil Historical Society (Orleans County, Vt.) - Hall, S. R. (Samuel Read) - Sumner, Samuel
- Date: 1860