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ous, fine-looking building ; but this building was in turn destroyed by fire, July 4, 1854, by fire-crackers accidentally falling upon its roof. The December court of that year was held in a room known as Union Hall, on Elm street.
The present court-house, a large, two-story brick structure surmounted by a belfry, stands upon the north side of the park. It was built in 1854, at a cost of $14,000.00, a part of which expense was sustained by the town of Woodstock. Its architect was the same who planned the State House at Montpelier ; but it has received extensive repairs and improvements since 1854. The first floor is used as a town hall, while the second floor is divided into a court-room, jury-room, judges' room, witness and lawyers' rooms.
The first jail was built in 1787, on the south side and upper end of the park, facing northeast. This jail seems to have been a very poor affair. Although the general assembly, on the first of March, laid a tax on the county of two cents per pound, to raise the money for erecting it, and in the following No- vember laid an additional tax of half a cent on the pound for its completion, it seems never to have been completed. Judge Keyes, in speaking of it twenty years later, says "it was an old, weak, stinking thing, scarcely a shadow of a jail ; for the prisoners had, and could at any time, burn out with a small coal and a goose quill for a bellows." It did service for about ten years, however, when a new jail was erected, on Central street, which is still in use, though so greatly altered and improved as to bear no resemblance to its former appearance. In 1868-'69 it was enlarged and repaired, at an ex- pense of $9,641.08, and is now a fine, modern structure, containing, aside from the jail proper, the jailor's residence, offices of the register of probate, county clerk, etc.
The supreme court holds its sessions on the first Thursday after the fourth Tuesday next after the fourth Tuesday in January, and the county court sits on the first Tuesday in May, and first Tuesday in December. The county has two probate districts, Hartford and Windsor, the dividing line, with Hartford district on the north, being the north line of the towns of Windsor, West Windsor, Reading and Plymouth. The following lists give the principal officers of the county from its organization to the present time, with the years in which they served :-
CHIEF JUDGES.
Joseph Marsh .
1782-1796
Abner Forbes. 1825-
Lewis R. Morris
1796-1798
Titus Hutchinson. 1825-1833
Stephen Jacob
1798-1801
Jacob Collamer.
1833-1842A
Paul Brigham.
1801-1802
William Hebard.
1842-1845
Jesse Williams, (declined) Elias Keyes. .
1803- 1803-1814
Jacob Collamer. 1850-1854+ Abel Underwood. 1854-1857
Ebenezer Brown.
1814-1815
Elias Keyes
1815-1817
Isaac F. Redfield. 1857-1860
William Strong
1817-1818
James Barrett. 1860-1880
Elihu Luce ..
1818-1822
Russel S. Taft ..
1880-1882
William Strong. .
1822-1823
John W. Rowell.
1882-
Aaron Loveland.
1824-1825
Daniel Kellogg. 1845-1850
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ASSISTANT. JUDGES.
Thomas Murdock.
1782-178-
Samuel C. Loveland. 1832-1834
Elias Weld.
1782-1790
Ephraim D. Briggs 1834-1836
Elijah Robinson
1782-1801
David Pierce 1836-1845
Abel Curtis.
1782-1784
Reuben Washburn. 1838-1845
Paul Brigham .
1784-1788
Walter Palmer
Thomas F. Barrett 1845-1849
Paul Brigham
1790-1796
Jesse Williams
1796-1803
Hampden Cutts
Asaph Fletcher .
1801-1805
Calvin French:
Aaron Leland.
1803-1817
Gardner Winslow
William Hunter
1805-1816
Barnabas Deane
William Strong
1816-1817
Daniel Woodward
Amos Heald
1817-1818
Joseph Dodge
Aaron Leland.
1818-1822
Daniel Dana.
1818-1820
John Bridge
1820-1825
Abner Forbes 1822-1829
Aaron Loveland 1823-1824
Thomas Emerson
1824-1828
Samuel W. Porter
1828-1838
William Steele .
1829-1831
Royal M. Ransom
1831-1832
1401503
Amasa Paine
1796-1802
Warren C. French
1851-1853
Daniel Buck. .
1802-1803
Calvin French 1853-1854
Titus Hutchinson
1803-1813
James Barrett 1854-1856
Horace Everett
1813-1818
John Ward. 1856-1858
Asa Aiken
1818-1820
Dudley C. Denison 1858-1860
/ Jacob Collamer
1820-1824
William Rounds. 1860-1861
Isaac N. Cushman. 1824-1827
Wyllys Lyman . 1827-1831
Carlos Coolidge.
1831-1836
Samuel E. Pingree. 1867-1869
Oliver P. Chandler Edwin Hutchinson 1838-1840
1836-1838
James N. Edminster 1869-1872
William E. Johnson 1872-1874
William H. Walker 1874-1876
Sewall Fullam
1842-1844
Julius Converse 1844-1847
Sewall Fullam
1847-1849
Thomas O. Seaver.
1880-
Luther Adams 1849-1851
SHERIFFS.
John Benjamin.
1778-1779
Solomon W. Burk. 1815-1820
Benjamin Wait
1779-1781
Asaph Fletcher, Jr. 1820-1830
Bryant Brown.
1781-1786
Daniel Bowen 1834-1837
Benjamin Wait. 1786-1788
John Pettes 1837-1839
Paul Brigham.
1788-1790 William Sweetser. 1790-1796 Lucius Hubbard 1796-1798
Joel Lull. 1839-1842 Zenas F. Hyde. 1842-1844
William Rice
1798-1802
Lorenzo Richmond 1850-1868
William Strong. 1802-1810
Surrey W. Stimson 1868-1880
Paschal P. Enos.
1810-1814
Rollin Amsden
1880-
Amos Heald. 1814-1815
Lysander Raymond. 1830-1834
Ebenezer Brewster.
Norman Paul. 1876-1878
Gilbert A. Davis.
1878-1880
Crosby Miller 1872-
William M. Pingry
1879-
STATE'S ATTORNEYS.
Napoleon B. Roundy S 1856-1859
John S. Marcy 1859-1872
Joseph W. Colburn 1859-1863
John Wilder 1863-1866
Calvin French.
1866-1879
Charles P. Marsh. 1861-1865
John F. Deane. 1865-1867
Henry Closson 1840-1842
1852-1854
1.854-1856
Walter Palmer
1849-1852
Gilman Henry . 1844-1850
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COUNTY CLERKS.
Lewis R. Morris.
1782-1796
Norman Williams. 1839-1867
Benjamin Swan 1796-1839
George B. French. 1867
JUDGES OF PROBATE-WINDSOR DISTRICT.
Paul Spooner
1778-1782
Jabez Proctor. 1830-1834
Ebenezer Curtis
1782-1786
Nomlass Cobb.
1834-1835
Briant Brown ..
1786-1787
Thomas F. Hammond
1835-1849
Elijah Robinson
1787-1802
Salmon F. Dutton .
1849-1857
William Hunter
1802-1816
Henry Closson
1857-1868
Uriel C. Hatch.
1816-1822
William Rounds .
1868-1878
Jonathan Whipple
1822-1830
William H. Walker
1878-
HARTFORD DISTRICT.
John Throop
1783-1793
Henry C. Denison 1820-1826
Paul Brigham
1793-1796
Isaiah Raymond 1826-183.6
William Perry
1796-1800
John S. Marcy . 1836-1841
Paul Brigham
1800-1801
Thomas P. Russell
1.841-1843
Oliver Gallup.
1801-1803
George E. Wales
1843-1848
Jesse Williams
1803-1815
Josiah B. Danforth.
1848-1850
Benjamin Clapp
1815-1820
John Porter
1850-
WINDSOR COUNTY BAR.
Name.
Residence.
County where Admitted.
When Adm'd.
Julius Converse,
Woodstock,
Orange,
1826
William M. Pingry,
Perkinsville,
Caledonia,
1832
V Oliver P. Chandler,
Woodstock,
66
1832
Augustus P. Huntoon,
Bethel,
Washington,
1837
Luther Adams,
North Chester,
Windsor, 66
1837
John F. Deane,
Cavendish,
1841
Frederick C. Robbins,
Ludlow,
66
1842
Albert M. Allbee,
Springfield,
Windham,
1843
Charles P. Marsh,
Woodstock,
Windsor,
1843
Noah B. Safford,
Hartford,
66
1843
Warren C. French,
Woodstock,
66
1844
Dudley C. Denison,
Royalton,
66
I845
Frederick Billings,
Woodstock,
1848
Charles M. Lamb,
South Royalton,
Orange,
1850
William Rounds,
Chester,
Windsor,
1851
Jonathan B. Farnsworth,
1856
James J. Wilson,
Bethel,
66
1858
Gilbert A. Davis,
Felchville,
66
1859
George L. Fletcher,
Chester,
Windham,
1859
Samuel E. Pingree,
Hartford, 66
Windsor,
1859
Stephen M. Pingree,
66
I861
Jerome W. Pierce,
Springfield,
Windham,
1862
Hugh Henry,
Chester,
Windsor,
1862
Norman Paul,
Woodstock,
1862
Thomas O. Seaver,
66
1864
William E. Johnson,
66
1865
5
1860
William H. Walker,
Ludlow,
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WINDSOR COUNTY BAR .- CONTINUED.
Name.
Residence.
County where Admitted.
When Admt'd.
George B. French,
Woodstock,
Windsor,
I866
James K. P. Chamberlin,
Pomfret,
66
1868
Martin H. Goddard,
Ludlow,
6:
1869
Joseph D. Denison,
Royalton,
66
1869
Charles P. Tarbell,
South Royalton,
Orange,
1870
William Batchelder,
Windsor,
Windsor,
1872
William B. C. Stickney.
Bethel,
66
1874
Milo S. Buck,
Cavendish,
66
1875
Charles M. Marsh,
Woodstock,
1875
Robert S. Southgate,
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66
1876
William H. Bliss,
Rochester,
Orange,
1877
William W. Stickney,
Ludlow,
Windsor,
1878
James G. Harvey,
White River Junction,
66
188I
Joseph C. Enright,
Windsor,
66
188I
Herman G. Davis,
Woodstock,
66
1882
James Tierney,
Cavendish,
66
1882
66
1876
Frederick C. Southgate,
1880
Fred Arnold,
Bethel,
THE STATE PRISON.
The State prison, located at Windsor village, is the only State institution in the county. The act establishing the prison was passed on the 3d of November, 1807, providing for the appointment, by a joint ballet of both houses, of five commissioners, who should be empowered to fix a plan and place for the same, and superintend the erection and finishing of it. The commissioners elected for this purpose were Ezra Butler, Samuel Shaw, John Cameron, Josiah Wright and Elihu Luce. They were directed to proceed in the discharge of the duties assigned them without unnecessary delay, and were authorized to draw upon the treasury of the State for any sum, not exceeding $30,000.00 in carrying the designs of the legislature into effect.
Having fixed upon Windsor as the location for the institution, the work was commenced in 1808 and carried forward nearly to its completion, in 1809. The original prison, eighty-four feet long and thirty-six wide, built entirely of stone, is what is now known as the east wing. A work shop, keepers' house, etc., were also built, the whole being nearly completed in 1809, at a cost of about $39,000.00. In 1830 the "new prison," or west wing, was erected, 112 feet in length and forty in width, and in 1882, aside from repairs and improvements at different times, a general reconstruction was made. The old workshop was demolished and a new brick one erected, 140X40 feet, two stories above the basement, with square pitched truss roof, slated. The basement is divided into four rooms-a store room in each end, with coal and engine rooms in the center. The engine is of Exeter
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make, and its boilers furnish steam for heating the shops, offices, superintend . ent's house and the prison. The workshop has two main floors, fitted with the best machinery for the manufacture of ladies', misses' and children's boots and shoes, W. D. Brackett & Co., of Boston, contractors, paying the State fifty cents per day for each man, and for furnishing the necessary power and machinery for carrying on the business. The new central build- ing connects the old and new prisons, and is 46x43 feet, three stories above the basement, and surmounted by an English cottage roof, having six dor- mer windows, and a cupola rising forty feet higher. The basement is- divided into six rooms-kitchen, dining-room, laundry, store-room, sink and bath-room. The third room is twenty-three feet deep and has a large front bay window, giving views of the work shop and entire prison yard. From side windows the prison halls and corridors can be seen. Doors open there- from into the yard and corridors. The second floor is divided into sleeping rooms, one of which is used as a reading room. The third floor has six sleeping rooms, two being fitted up for female convicts. This new structure is most substantially built. The floors are hard pine and the interior finish is of oak and ash. The rooms have ash wainscoting and the walls are either in hard plaster, fine finish, or painted. Hot and cold water is fur- nished throughout the building.
The superintendent's dwelling stands directly in front of the new central - building, fronting on State street. It is 38x42 feet on the ground, two sto- ries high, with an English cottage roof, having five dormer windows. It has also two bay windows and is connected with the prison guard-room by an archway from the rear of the second story. This building is also neatly and elegantly finished. Just back of the old prison is located the tailor shop and chapel, under one roof. The east wing has 104 cells and the west wing. fifty-six, all remarkably clean and well-kept. E. W. Oaks is superintendent and D. L. Spaulding principal keeper of the prison.
The first commitments to the prison were made in 1809, and during that year twenty-four convicts were entered. Since that time there have been 2,570 commitments, thirty-four of them for murder, and the institution now has eighty-four inmates, (August, 1883,) two of whom are females. Of the thirty-four who were sentenced for murder, seven were pardoned, seven died in prison, two were taken to the insane asylum, six are still in prison, and twelve were executed. In 1839 the State legislature passed a law that all executions should take place in the prison yard, they having been public up to that time. The first execution in the State was that of David Redding, at Bennington, in 1778 ; the second, Cyrus B. Dean, at Burlington, in 1808; the third, Samuel F. Godfrey, at Woodstock, in 1818 ; the fourth, Virginia, a colored man, at St. Albans, in 1820 ; the fifth, Archibald Bates, at Ben- nington, in 1839, the last public execution, and at which there is estimated to have been 15,000 spectators. The first in the prison was on January 20, 1864, when Sandy Kavanaugh and William Barnett, both for wife murder,
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were executed at the same time. Since then there have been ten executions, as follows: John Ward, for the murder of Mrs. Griswold, of Williston, March 20, 1868 ; Hiram Miller, for the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Joshua G. Gowen, of Ascutneyville, June 25, 1869 ; Henry Welcome, for the murder of Perry Russell, of Hinesburgh, January 20, 1871 ; John P. Phair, for the murder of Mrs. Ann E. Freese, of Rutland, April 10, 1879; Henry Gravlin, for the murder of Herbert O. White, of Weathersfield, March 24, 1879; Asa Magoon, for the murder of Rufus Streeter, of Barre, November 28, 1879 ; Edward Tatro, for the murder of Mrs. Charles Butler, of Highgate, April 2, 1880 ; Edwin C. Hayden, for the murder of his wife at Derby Line, February 25, 1881 ; Royal S. Carr, for the murder of William Wallace Marcommock, a half-breed, of Worcester, April 29, 1881 ; and Emeline L. Meeker, for the murder of Alice, her niece, near Waterbury, March 30, 1883.
THE POOR.
Those who from age, infirmity or otherwise, become unable to support themselves, and are so unfortunate as to be obliged to rely upon public charity for support, are cared for, in conformity with the laws of the State, by the inhabitants of the town wherein they reside.
INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS.
From time immemorial Connecticut river was the favorite pathway of Indian travel, and later was used as the great highway of the eastern part of the State by the whites. After the establishment of a trading station at Charleston, or Number Four, in 1727, the route which the Indians usually took in going from Canada to Fort Dummer, was by Lake Champlain, Otter Creek and Black and Connecticut rivers. The government of Massachusetts, in order to ascertain the exact course of this Indian road, obtained from a certain James Coss the following diary of a journey from Fort Dummer to Lake Champlain, performed in the year 1730. From it something may be learned of the manner of traveling in the wilderness in those early times, and of the hardships pertaining thereto. Thus the journal reads :-
" Monday, ye 27th April, 1730, at about twelve of ye clock we left Fort Dummer, and travailed that day three miles, and lay down that night by West River, which is three miles distant from Fort Dummer. Notabene .- I travailed with twelve Canady Mohawks that drank to great excess at ye fort and killed a Skatacook Indian in their drunken condition, that came to smoke with them.
"Tuesday .- We travailed upon the great River [Connecticut] about ten miles.
" We kept ye same course upon ye great River, travailed about ten miles, and eat a drowned Buck that night.
" Tuesday .- We travailed upon ye great River within two miles of ye Great Falls, [Bellows Falls] in said River, then went upon Land to ye Black River above ye Great Falls, went up in that River and lodged about a mile
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and a half from the mouth of Black River, which days travail we judged was about ten miles.
"Fryday .- We cross Black River at Falls [Springfield village] afterwards travail through ye woods N. N. W., then cross Black River again about sev- enteen miles above our first crossing, afterwards travailed ye same course, and pitched our tent on ye homeward side of Black River.
" Saturday .- We crossed Black River, left a great mountain on ye right hand and another on ye left {in Ludlow]. Keep a N. W. course till we pitch our tent after eleven miles travail by a Brook which we called a branch of Black River.
"Sabbath Day .- Soon after we began our day's work, an old pregnant squaw that travailed with us, stopt alone and was delivered of a child, and by Monday noon overtook us with a living child upon her Back. We travail to Black River. At ye three islands, between which and a large pound we past ye River, enter a mountain [in Plymouth], that afforded us a prospect of ye place of Fort Dummer. Soon after we enter a descending country, and travail till we arrive at Arthur Creek, [Otter creek] in a descending land. In this day's travail which is twenty-one miles, we came upon seven Brooks which run a S. W. course at ye north end of said Mountain. From Black River to Arthur Creek we judge is twenty-five miles.
" Monday .- Made Canoes.
" Tuesday .-- Hindered travailing by rain.
" Monday .- We go in our Canoes upon Arthur Creek, till we meet two great falls in said river [in Rutland]. Said River is very Black and deep and surrounded with good land to ye extremity of our prospect. This day's travail thirty-five mile.
"Thursday,-We sail forty miles in Arthur Creek. We meet with great Falls [Middlebury Falls], and a little above them we meet with two other great Falls [at Weybridge], and about ten miles below ye said Falls, we meet two other pretty large Falls [at Vergennes]. We carried our canoe by these Falls and came to ye Lake.
As the county was settled, it became apparent that some more convenient mode of transportation must be devised than the flat-boats afforded on the Connecticut or than was afforded by the several stage lines. Accordingly, October 29, 1829, the legislatures of Vermont and New Hampshire passed an act incorporating the Connecticut River Steamboat Company, the char- ter being given to "Jonathan H. Hubbard, Frederick Pettes, George D. Dutton, Isaac W. Hubbard, Edward R. Campbell, Albert G. Hatch, David H. Sumner, William Hall, James I. Cutler, Alexander Fleming and their associates." This charter was altered, however, November 5, 1830, to the Connecticut River Valley Steamboat Company, allowing the corporation to " purchase, hold and convey, real estate tothe value of $20,000.00." Canals and locks were built where rapids or falls occurred, so that the Connecticut navigation became very convenient from Hartford, Conn., to the "Fifteen mile" fall at Dalton. Three of these canals were located in Vermont, one at Bellows Falls, one at Sumner's Falls and another at Alcott's Falls. Between these falls, except between Sumner's and Alcott's, were located steamboats that were plied until the canal was reached, then the passengers and freight had to be transported to the steamer waiting at the other end of the canal,
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though the flat-boats, rafts, etc., made through trips, using the locks. One steamer, run by Captain Nutt, of White River, was built in 1830, so as to be locked through the entire length, but it did not prove a success.
The first attempt at steamboat navigation on the Connecticut was in 1827, when the Barnet, a strong boat, seventy five by fourteen and a half feet, was built and succeeded, with some help, in ascending the river as far as Bellows Falls. This was her first and last trip, however, for she was taken back to Hartford, laid up, and finally broken to pieces. In 1829 a Mr. Blanchard built a boat called the Blanchard, of the size of the preceding, and another eighty feet long and fourteen feet wide, drawing only twelve or fifteen inches of water, called the Vermont. The stroke of the piston was horizontal and the engine a 120 horse power. A few experimental trips were made between Bellows Falls and Barnet, but the obstacles were such that the undertaking was relinquished, and the method of plying boats between the locks substituted instead. But the advent of the railroad into the country, in 1848, took away the business of the river and the old canals and locks have long since come to ruin.
On November 10, 1835; the Connecticut and Passumpsic Rivers Railroad was chartered by the legislature ; but owing to the difficulty experienced in securing subscriptions to stock, nothing was done toward building the road, so the charter became void. It was revived, however, October 31, 1843, the time for beginning its construction being limited to three years. As orig- inally chartered, the road was to run from some point near the Connecticut river on the Massachusetts line, up the Connecticut and Passumpsic valleys, reaching Canada at some point in Newport or Derby, as might be feasible. By an act of 1845, however, the right to "divide the route at the White river, near its mouth," was granted, recognizing the northern half as the Connecticut & Passumpsic Rivers Railroad, and allowing that portion to retain all subscriptions to the stock already received, while the portion to the south of the Junction, as originally chartered, was given over to another corporation, when the division was made, to be known as the Connecticut River Railroad.
The Vermont Central Railroad Company, subsequently changed to the Cen- tral Vermont Railroad Company, was incorporated November 1, 1843, for the purpose, and with the right, of building a railroad " from some point on the eastern shore of Lake Champlain, up the valley of Onion river and extend- ing to a point on Connecticut river most convenient to meet a railroad either from Concord, New Hamshire, or Fitchburgh, Massachusetts." The route decided upon was up the Connecticut from Windsor to the mouth of White river, thence up that stream to the source of its third branch, thence, reaching the summit in Roxbury, and passing down the valley of Dog river, it enters the Winooski valley near Montpelier, and thence, continuing in the Winooski valley, its terminus is reached at Burlington, a distance of 117 miles. Charles Paine was chosen president of the company, and ground
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was broken at Windsor, December 15, 1845, on the farm formerly occupied by Judge Elijah Paine, father of Charles Paine, where the latter was born, the first ground broken for a railroad in Vermont. The contract was let to Sewal F. Belknap, to whose great energy, perseverance, and fortune, the early success of the enterprise is mainly due. In the Old South church bur- ial ground, at Windsor village, is a plain, pure white marble shaft that marks his last resting place. Upon its granite base is inscribed the following inscription :-
SEWAL F. BELKNAP, BORN NOVEMBER 29, 1812, DIED JUNE 19, 1849. A MAN OF UNBOUNDED ENTERPRISE, OF STRICT INTEGRITY, AND AN UNFAILING FRIEND.
THE VERMONT CENTRAL RAILROAD, IN WHICH HE SACRIFICED HIS FORTUNE AND HIS LIFE, IS MAINLY INDEBTED TO HIM FOR ITS EXISTENCE.
Regular passenger trains first passed over the road from White River Junction to Bethel, a distance of twenty-seven miles, the first train, and the first regular passenger train in Vermont, running over the route Monday, June 26, 1848. June 20, 1849, the road was opened through for business. The following are the present officers of the Central Vermont Company, with their offices at St. Albans: Hon. J. G. Smith, president ; J. W. Hobart, general superintendent ; J. M. Foss, assistant superintendent ; I. B. Futvoie, superintendent northern division ; Jesse Burdett, superintendent Rutland division ; E. A. Chittenden, superintendent of local freight traffic; and S. W. Cummings, general passenger agent.
The Connecticut & Passumpsic Rivers Railroad Company was organized in January 1846, with Erastus Fairbanks, president. The survey was begun in April, and grading commenced soon after. October 10, 1848, the road was formally opened to Bradford, a distance of 28.37 miles from White River Junction, and November 6th of the same year was opened through to Wells river, 40. 17 miles. St. Johnsbury was reached in 1852, and Barton became the terminus in 1858-'59. Thus the work proceeded gradually, as stock was taken and funds procured. Newport became a railroad town in 1863, during which year the grading was completed to the Canada line. This point gained, another halt occurred until the connecting link from the Grand Trunk line, at Lennoxville, P. Q., 33.75 miles should be assured. On the
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Ist of July, 1870, this link, under the title the Massawippi Valley Railroad, was ready for trains and has been operated since by the C. & P. R. R. R., under a lease for 999 years. Practically, however, the terminus of this road is at Sherbrook, three miles farther north, where its round-house is located, using the Grand Trunk road this latter distance. The total mileage of the road is thus 145 miles, and its present officers are E. Raymond, president, and N. P. Lovering, treasurer, with the principal offices at Lindonville, Caledonia county.
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