passes the village, which affords
it excellent railroad facilities.
Here are establishments for the
manufacture of carriages, (on an
extensive scale,) potato starch,
piano sounding-boards, boxes, kits,
excelsior, bobbins, shoe pegs, and
various other smaller shops, too
numerous to mention. There are
also one church, a fine school
house, fifteen or twenty stores of
various kinds, one hotel, express
and telegraph office, post office,
one lawyer, five physicians, two
dentists, three insurance agents,
and some other professional busi-
ness. It is a very pleasant village,
and some of the business buildings
and private residences, are fine
structures.

Sugar Hill is a pretty, village
situated on a commanding em-
inence of the same name, in the
eastern part of the town. Here is
one church edifice, owned jointly
by the Freewill Baptists and Ad-
ventists, a fine town hall, which is
occupied for election purposes, by
the town, on alternate years, (a
similar hall located in Lisbon vil-
lage, proper, being used half the
time) a cai’riage, blacksmith, and
shoe shop, a general store, one or
two groceries, and some thirty or
forty dwellings, with two or three
summer boarding houses.

Summer Resorts. The village is
surrounded by a farming com-
munity, which is unsurpassed by
any in Northern New-Hamp-
shire. It is but a short distance
from the White Mountains and
Franconia Hills; being but 15
miles to the Profile House, and 35
to the Crawford House. The
beautiful scenery about town, and
pleasant views and drives make it
a desirable locality for summer
tourists. Over two hundred, spend
their summer vacation here.

Employments. Agriculture is the
principal employment of the peo-
ple, but, as can be seen, manufac-
turing and mercantile trade, is an
important branch of business.

3.500 bushels of wheat, 26,000 bush-
els oats, 111,000 bushels of potatoes,

4.500 tons hay, 40,000 lbs. of but-
ter, 12,000 lbs. cheese, and 30,000
lbs. maple sugar, are annually
produced, There are also manu-
factured, 200 tons of potato starch,
valued at $23,000 ; 20,000 bushels
shoe pegs, 100,000 rough bobbins,
valued at $ 19,000; 38,000 bushels
grain ground, valued at $55,000;

1,800,000 feet of lumber, of all
kinds, valued at $21,900; besides
carriages, piano sounding-boards,
boxes, excelsior, Stevens’ mineral
fertilizer, quartz mills; also black-
smith, shoe shop, tin shops, &c.
The whole amount of goods an-
nually manufactured, is estimated
at $ 280,900.

Resources. Productions of the
soil, $194,017; mechanical labor,
$61,000; money at interest, $57,
670; deposits in savings banks,
$8,224; stock in trade, $52,770;
from summer tourists, $8,000;
professional business, $ 50,000.

Churches and Schools. Meth-
odist, Rev. J. H. Brown, pastor;
Freewill Baptist, Rev. John M
Chamberlin, pastor; Advent, (Su
gar Hill) Rev. J. H. Shipman,
pastor. There are eleven schools
in town. Average length of
schools for the year, seventeen
weeks. Total amount of money
annually appropriated for school
purposes, $ 1,996.64.

Library. Lisbon Village Libra-
ry Association, 1,000 volumes.

Hotel. Ammonoosuc House.