Athens, Vermont, USA
1849 - Athens

Windham Co. This town was first settled in 1780. by people from Rindge, N. H., and Winchendon, Mass. They 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. 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 i towards a settlement in this town were made in the foil of 1779, by Jonathan Perham, Seth Oakes, Joseph Easier, 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.

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

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