is done here—there are two wool-
en mills, two paper mills, mowing
machine manufactory, tool fac-
tor}^-, bolt and machine shop,
founder}^-, water wheels, besides
printing and several other me-
chanical shops. There are three
churches, two school houses, eight
or ten stores, one hotel, and about
one hundred dwelling houses.
The Ashuelot Railroad gives it
good railroad facilities.

Employments. The inhabitants
are about equally divided between
manufacturing, trade, and profes-
sional business, on one side, and
agriculture on the other. The
manufactures are important. In
1870, Haile & Co. employed 38
males and 42 females; annual
pay roll, $ 34,000, and annu-
ally producing 450,000 yards of
cashmerett, valued at $230,000.
Boydon & Amadon employed 23
males and 20 females; annual pay
roll, $ 15,800; annually producing

230,000 yards of cashmerett, val-
ued at $ 110,000. John N. Beers,
tannery, annually producing leath-
er to the value of $ 72,000. Wil-
der & Hopkins, chisels and spoke
shaves, $ 18,500. Newhall & Steb-
bins mowing machines, valued at
$52,000. Paper mills, $60,000;
box manufactory, $ 10,000; foun-
der}^-, $ 14,000; machine shop, $ 75,
000;    1,500,000 feet of lumber

sawed, $34,000; grain ground,
$8,200; also bolts, shooks, boots
and shoes, water wheels, besides
blacksmiths, carpenters, masons,
painters, wheelwrights, harness
makers, and various other trades
and professions. The total capi-
tal invested in the various manu-
factures, is $371,900, employing
206 males, and 65 females and
children, who annually receive for
their labor $ 125,600, and manufac-
ture goods to the value of $ 690,
400, being the third town in the
county in the- amount annually
paid for mechanical labor, and the
fourth in the value of its manufac-
tured productions.

Resources. Agricultural pro-
ductions, $118,408; mechanical
labor, $125,600, stocks, $16,300;
money at interest, $ 31,160; depos-
its in savings banks, $ 26,958; pro-
fessional services, $ 15,000; stock
in trade, $58,820; professional
business, $ 20,000.

Churches and Schools. Congre-
gational, Rev. C. C. Watson, pas-
tor; Methodist, Rev. D. S. Dex-
ter, pastor; Baptist, -  ;

Universalist Society, -  .

There are eleven schools in town,
three of which are graded. Aver-
age length of schools for the year,
twenty-one weeks. Total amount
of money appropriated for school
purposes, $ 2,353.80.

Library. Hinsdale Library As-
sociation, 800 volumes.

Newspapers. Star Spangled
Banner, monthly, and Hinsdale
Mirror, quarterly. (See tables.)

Hotel. Ashuelot House.

First Settlement. This town
was originally a part of North-
field, Massachusetts, and for a
number of years called Fort Dum-
mer. The first settlers encoun-
tered all the horrors of the Indian
warfare, and struggled with other
hardships, common to many of the
early settlements in New-Hamp-
shire. They were protected by
Fort Dummer, Hinsdale’s Fort,
Shattuck’s Fort, and Bridgeman’s
Fort; but, with all these precau-
tions they were not effectually se-
cured from savage incursions and
many cruel murders. June 17,