Cornwall, Vermont, USA
1849 - Cornwall

Addison Co. This is a very handsome township of land, and the surface is generally level. Lemonfair River crosses the north-west corner, and Otter Creek washes a part of the eastern boundary. This township, by charter, comprehended that part of Middlebury, which lies west of Otter Creek, including the mill privileges on the west side of the creek at Middlebury Falls.

In the south part of the town is a quarry of excellent dark blue limestone, from which the material for the front of the new college in Middlebury was obtained, and near the centre of the town is a bed of hydraulic cement, or water lime. Calcareous spar, in very beautiful, transparent, rhomboidal crystals, is found in the western part of this township. Along Otter Creek, in the south-east part, is a large swamp covering several thousand acres.

Boundaries. North by Weybridge, east by Middlebury and Salisbury, south by Whiting, and west by Bridport and Shoreham.

First Settlers. The settlement was commenced in 1774, by Asa Blodget, Eldad Andrus, Aaron Scott, Nathan Foot, William Douglass, James Bentley, Jr., Ebenezer Stebbins, Thomas j Bentley, Samuel Blodget, and Joseph I Troup. When Ticonderoga was abandoned to the British in 1777, the settlers all fled to the south, and did not return till after the war. In the winter of 1784, about thirty families came into the township from Connecticut.

First Ministers. The Congregational Church, in this town, was organized July 15, 1785, and September 26, 1787, they settled the Rev. Thomas Tolman, who was dismissed November 11, 1790. The Rev. Benjamin Wooster was ordained over this church February 23, 1797. and dismissed January 7, 1802.

Productions of the Soil. Wheat, 2,436 bushels; Indian corn, 7,288 bushels; potatoes, 24,307 bushels; hay, 8,751 tons; maple sugar, 11,000 pounds; wool, 60,897 pounds.

Distances. Seventy-five miles southwest from Montpelier, and thirty-six south from Burlington. The Southern Railroad passes near this town.

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

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