cultivated, and very productive.

Employments. A majority of the
people are engaged in farming,
but manufacturing and mercantile
trade are becoming important
branches of business. Some 30,000
pairs of boots and shoes are annu-
ally made; 11,000 clapboards, 800,
000 shingles, 1,250,000 feet of boards
and dimension timber sawed. The
manufacturing of sale clothing is
becoming quite an extensive busi-
ness. One firm at Wolfeborough
Junction, make 4,000 pairs of pants
per. month, and several others 1,
000 pairs per month. There are
several other small manufactories
in town; the whole, including the
manufacturing of clothing, makes
the annual value of manufactur-
ed products $211,400.

There are several villages,
pleasantly located, each trying
to vie with the other, in bus-
iness. The number of beaiiti-
ful ponds in town, together with
the fine drives, and delightful
views, have caused many summer
tourists to spend their summer va-
cation here, there being over two
hundred last season, and the num-
ber is increasing every year. Two
fine hotels have been erected, the
past year, for the accommodation
of visitors.

Resources. Productions of the
soil, $ 100,605; mechanical labor,
$51,100; stocks and money at in-
terest, $ 26,034; deposits in savings
banks, $ 49,701; stock in trade,
$ 15,795; from summer tourists,
$8,000; from professional busi-
ness &c., $ 30,000.

Churches and Schools. Four
churches; Congregational, Ad-
vent, Baptist, and Methodist. Rev.
S. Clark is pastor of the Congrega-
tional Church. There are eleven
schools in town; average length,
for the year, twenty-one weeks;
tatal amount of money annually
appropriated for school purposes,
$ 1,562,52.

Library. Union Library, at Un-
ion Village.

Hotels. Union Hotel, Sanborn
House, National House and Da-
vis Hotel. Value of hotel proper-
ty, $30,000. Hotel arrivals, for the
year, 8,000.

Livery Stables. There are four
livery stables, with fifteen horses
each.

First Town Organization. Wake-
field was originally called “ East
Town, ” and was incorporated Au-
gust 30, 1774. Mr. Robert Mack-
lin, born in Scotland, and distin-
guished for longevity; died here
in 1787, at the age of 115 years.

First Minister. Rev. Asa Piper,
(Congregational,) ordained in
1785; dismissed in 1810.

Boundaries. North-west by Os-
sipee and Effingham, east by N ew-
field, Maine, south-east by Milton,
and south-west by Middleton and
Brookfield. Area, of improved
land, 11,871 acres.

Distances. Fifty miles north-
east from Concord, and ten south-
east from Ossipee.

Railroads. Portsmouth, Great
Falls and Conway Division of the
Eastern Railroad, and the Wolfe-
borough Branch of the Eastern
Railroad. There are five Railway
stations in town, viz. Union,
Wolfeborough Junction, Wake-
field, East Wakefield, and North
Wakefield.

WALPOLE.

Cheshire County. Walpole
ranks, as an agricultural town, the
third in the State in the value of its