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Village of Warren Vermont

Warren has quite a village. There are some 50 dwelling-houses, 1 church, 1 school-house, a very good one; 3 stores, 2 boot and shoe shops, 1 tannery, 5 blacksmith shops, 2 clap-board mills, 2 sawmills, 1 grist-mill, 3 carriage shops, 1 harness-shop, 1 tin-shop, 2 cooper-shops, 2 clothes-pins shops, 1 gunsmith, 1 millinery shop, a tavern and post-office. Mad River runs through the village. The water-power here is very good. A stage runs to Roxbury, 7 miles, the nearest railroad station, and back 3 times a week. [Data of 1877; there is now, 1881, a daily stage from Warren to Roxbury.] In other parts of the town, there are 2 carriage-shops, 2 saw-mills, 1 clap-board mill, a shingle factory, 1 black smith shop, and several cooper shops.

Post Masters

East Warren. Joseph W. Eldridge, George Lathrop, Wm. Tillotson, Lorenzo Nichols, Nahum Nichols.

At the River.-Parker Putman, D. S. Parker, D. D. Hyzer, H. Fifield, J. G. Sargent, G. W. Cardell, Edwin Cardell.

Manufactures

Warren Wooden Bowl and Chair Stock Factory, situated on Mad river, at the further south end of the village, was built by Carlos Sargent, in 1809, who put in a forge and manufactured edge tools several years, and sold to Thomas Heyward, who manufactured wooden bowls, fork-stails and hoe-handles till the fall of 1868, when R. N. and D. D. Hemenway, of Ludlow, bought the shop, and commenced there, Nov. 20, that season, the turning of wooden bowls, with whom, April 1, 1869, C. W. Hemenway, another brother, bought in an equal share, and helped to manufacture bowls and chair-stock until Apr. 1, 1874, when he sold to R. N. and D. D., and returned to farming in Ludlow, and the brothers, R. N. and D. D., continued the business until the fall of 1878, when the shop was burned, after which they sold the privilege to John Bradley, who has since built a shop on the old foundation.

Henry Austin manufactured clapboards on Mad River, about 3 miles above the village, for several years, and then sold out and went west. Alex. Stetson and a Mr. Hanks manufactured clothes-pins a short time; then Mr. Hanks started a shop of his own, but did not run it long. Geo. S. Hanks built a shop also at the north end of the village, on Ford brook at the falls, for the manufacture of rolling-pins, clothes-pins and clapboards for a time, and Walter Bagley manufactured clapboards in South Hollow several years.

Samuel Austin run a distillery many years since in town. His customers would carry their molasses (maple) and get their rum. One day a government officer visited him, and finding that he had no license, it cost his brother, Daniel Austin, $150.00 to settle. The old still in now in Christopher Moore's possession.

Physicians
Dr. Fish, Asahel Kendrick, D. C. Joyslin,
Dr. Peabody, N. G. Brigham, J. M. Van Deusen,
E. W. Slayton.

Attorneys
A. C. Huntoon, John H. Senter

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Source: History of Washington County Vermont, Collated and Published by Abby Maria Hemenway, 1882.

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