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The Statistics and Gazetteer of New-Hampshire, Seventh
Edition, Compiled by Alonzo J. Fogg. Concord, N.H.: D.L.
are generally employed in farming.
There is not a town in the State
where farming pays any greater
profits, in proportion to the num-
ber of its inhabitants, than Shel-
burne. The annual value of farm
products will average over $ 160 to
each person in town, while the av-
erage in the whole State is about
$70.
Resources. Farm products, $ 41,
922; money at interest, $7,850;
mechanical labor, $ 1,800; sum-
mer tourists, $ 10,000.
Churches and Schools. Two
churches, viz. Congregational and
Methodist. There are five schools;
average length, for the year, nine
weeks.
Hotel. Winthrop House.
First Settlers. Benjamin and
David Ingalls commenced a settle-
ment here in 1775, In August
1781, a party of Indians visited
the town, killed one man, cap-
tured another, and returned to
Canada with their prisoner.
Boundaries. North by Success,
east by Riley and Gilead, Maine,
south by White Mountain region,
and west by Gorham. Area,
18,140 acres; improved land, 3,170
acres.
Distances. One hundred and
thirty-three miles north from Con-
cord and about thirty south-east
from Lancaster.
Railroad. Grand Trunk Rail-
road passes through the town.
SOUKIlSHOa T IT.
Strafford County. Somers-
worth is a small township, and the
people are almost exclusively de-
voted to manufacturing, mercan-
tile trade and professional busi-
ness. Next to Dover, it is the
most important town, in the value
of its manufactured productions
and trade, in the county, and ranks
as the fifth town, or city, in the
State, in manufactures. |
River and Village. Salmon
Falls River passes along its north-
eastern border, which separates it
from Maine, and is the only stream
of note in town.
The village of Great Falls is sit-
uated on this river, where centres
all the manufacturing and trade in
town.
The Great Falls Manufacturing
Company controls all the water
power at this point, which is rated
at 3,200 horse power.
This Confpany has a capital of
$ 1,500,000; and employs 775 men,
775 women, and 250 children, who
annually receive for their labor,
$533,000, and manufacture 19,728,
000 yards of sheetings etc., valued at
$2,446,000. The improvements of
machinery have largely increased
their productions, but not the help
The Somersworth Machine Com-
pany, iron founders and machin-
ists, manufacture cooking, office
and parlor stoves, hollow ware,
also, all kinds of castings for mills,
gas work, cast iron, steam, gas and
water pipes, retorts, hydrants, &c.
Capital invested, $ 100,000; em-
ploy 100 hands; annual pay roll,
$ 60,000 and producing goods, of va-
rious kinds, to the value of $ 200,
000.
Great Falls Woolen Company
manufacture fancy cassimeres, 6-4
goods. Capital, $ 100,000; employ
60 males 30 females; pay roll, $ 36,
000; annual productions, $ 300,
000.
Wright & Company; flour and
meal; capital, $ 30,000; annual-
ly produce 1,000 barrels of flour
and 168,000 bushels meal, valued |
