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