Bennington, Vermont, USA (North Bennington)
1854 - Bennington

Bennington Centre, or Old Village of Bennington, a post-village, semi-capital of Bennington county, Vermont, in Bennington township, 117 miles S. by W. from Montpelier, contains the county buildings and a bank. Population, between 400 and 500.

Bennington East Village, a manufacturing village of Bennington township, Bennington county, Vermont, about 1 1/ 2 mile E. from the old village. It contains 4 or 5 churches, an academy, and 1 or 2 printing offices. Besides the several factories, foundries, and tanneries in the place, there is an establishment for making a peculiar kind of fire-brick. These bricks are used in glass ovens and furnaces where a high heat is required, and are generally preferred to any imported. They are composed chiefly of quartz and kaolin, a species of feldspar - minerals found in great abundance in the eastern part of the township. Population, about 800.

Bennington Iron Works, situated about 8 miles E. from Bennington Centre, consisting of several large furnaces, which give employment to about 200 hands, and produce from 2000 to 3000 tons of pig iron annually.

A New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States: Giving a Full and Comprehensive Review of the Present Condition, Industry, and Resources of the American Confederacy ... Thomas Baldwin (of Philadelphia.) Joseph Thomas January 1, 1854 Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & Company 1854.

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