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Merchants, Middlesex, Vermont 1879
We have three stores in Middlesex village, one owned and occupied by Benjamin Barrett and James H. Holden, one by J. O. Hobart, and one by N. King Herrick, all doing a good business without danger of failing. Our merchants are as reliable as those of Montpelier, and I choose to patronize them.
We have at this date, January 1879, no physician in town. Nearly all of the people of Middlesex employ the physicians who live in Montpelier village.
Meeting-Houses and Churches
We have three meeting-houses, all good; one good brick one in the village, near the passenger depot, one built of wood in the center of the town, and another of wood in the small village denominated Shady Rill.
They are all kept well painted and in good repair. The one in Middlesex village is now occupied by the Methodists one-half of the time, and seldom at any other time, and it is about the same as to the house in the center of the town. The meeting house in Shady Rill was built about 30 years ago, by the Freewill Baptists, and it is occupied by those who built it, and their posterity. There was a Congregational church in this town when the brick meetinghouse was built, but there is not now. I think it passed away about 1845. The Methodist church has about 36 members at this time. The Freewill Baptist church, 1 think, is about the same as to numbers.
The Methodist denomination own a good and well-finished parsonage house and out-buildings, all well-arranged, near the brick meeting-house in Middlesex.
Source: History of Washington County Vermont, Collated and Published by Abby Maria Hemenway, 1882.
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