Coventry, Vermont, USA
1849 - Coventry

Orleans Co. Barton and Black Rivers run northerly through this town into Memphremagog Lake. These streams are from four to- eight rods wide, and very deep near their mouths. There are good mill privileges in this town on Black River, and likewise on some of the smaller streams. The other waters are South Bay of Lake Memphremagog, and two small ponds. The soil is generally good. Near the lake it is, in some places, clayey, and on Black River it is somewhat sandy, but the township, generally, consists of a deep, rich loam. Its timber is mostly maple and beech, with some elm, basswood, birch, hemlock, spruce, fir, cedar, &c. The western part of the town is somewhat broken, but not mountainous.

The village of Coventry was commenced in the fall of 1821, by Calvin and Daniel W. Harmon, when all that part of the town was a dense forest. It is situated at the falls in Black River in the south-west part of the town, and is in a flourishing state. This town received the name of Orleans in 1841, but it resumed its former name a few years after.

Boundaries. North and Avest by Newport, east by Brownington, and south by Irasburgh.

First Settlers. The first settlement of the town was begun about the year 1800, and it appears from the census of this year that there were, at this time, seven persons in tovm.. The first settlers were S. and T. Cobb, Samuel Wells, John Farnsworth, Jotham Pierce, Joseph Marsh, John Ide, and others.

First Ministers. The Rev. John Ide was ordained over the Baptist Church in 1814, and the Rev. Lyman Case was settled over the Congregational Church in 1823.

Productions of the Soil. Wheat, 2,364 bushels; Indian corn, 1,892 bushels: potatoes, 39,901 bushels: hay, 2,832 tons ; maple sugar, 38,445 pounds ; wool, 7,706 pounds.

Distances. Four miles north from Irasburgh, and forty-six north-east from Montpelier. The railroad from Boston to Montreal passes near this town.

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

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