Employments. The business is
nearly equally divided between
agriculture and manufacturing.
With the exception of Bedford, the
sale of milk exceeds that of any
town in the State, being over 200,
000 gallons annually. A milk car
stax-ts from this town for Boston,
every morning, under the manage-
ment of D. Whiting and Sons.
The manufactories of various
kinds, annually produce goods, as
follows:    Newell    Manufacturing

Co., 300,000 pounds woolen yam for
carpets, valued at $ 150,000; Wilton
Manufacturing Co.,486,500pounds,
$232,700; Robert Dawson, carpets,
189,600 yards, $ 80,000. Wilton al-
so annually produces 27,000 bush-
els meal and flour, $ 35,000; toys,
carts, and wagons, $5,200; furni-
ture, $ 50,000; A. J. Putnam & Co.,
upper leather and splits, $ 35,000;

125,000 shingles and 1,100,000, feet
boards, $23,300 ; American Silex
Co., $25,000; cheese factory,
$2,500; sale boots and shoes,
$ 25,000; besides blacksmiths, tin
ware, coopering, tailors, milliners,
carpenters, masons, painters, and
other kinds of trade. The capital
invested in manufactories is $ 319,
500; employing 178 males, and
116 females, and annually pro-
ducing goods to the value of
$ 695,300.

Resources. Agricultural produc-
tions, $ 132,392; mechanical labor,
$112,760; stocks and money at in-
terest^ 20,750; deposits in savings
banks, $ 154,960; stock in trade,
$ 52,750; professional business,
$75,000; from summer tourists,
$ 15,000. This town has become
quite popular as a summer resort
for tourists. The Whiting House,
one of the largest hotels in the
State, was built largely for the
purpose of keeping summer
boarders.

Churches and Schools. Baptist,
Rev. S. C. Fletcher, pastor; Con-
gregational, Rev. D. F. Adams,
pastor; Unitarian, Rev. I. S. Lin-
coln, A. M. Pendleton, pastors.
There are thirteen schools in town,
four of which are graded; average
length, for the year, twenty-four
weeks; total value of school hous-
es, $ 10,505; annual amount ap-
propriated for school purposes,
$3,117.39.

Library. Wilton Public Libra-
ry, 1,200 volumes.

Bank. Wilton Savings Bank.
(See tables.)

Hotels. Whiting House, Rail-
road House; at West Wilton, Fry
House.

First Settlement, The first set-
tlement was made as early as
1738, by three families from
Danvers, Mass.: two by the name
of Putnam, and one by the name
of Dale. Hannah, the daugh-
ter of Ephraim Putnam, was the
first child bom in town. Septem-
ber 7, 1773, while the people were
attempting to raise their second
church edifice, the frame fell, and
three men were instantly killed;
two died of their wounds soon af-
terward, and a number of others
were badly injured. July 20, 1804,
the same building was considera-
bly shattered by lightning. In
1815, Ezra and Samuel Abbott
erected the first potato starch mill
here, and the first ever built in the
State. Their first town Fair or
Cattle Show, was holden about
1826. It was something new, and
was well represented by people
from all the adjoining towns.
Among the visitors were such men
as Hon. C. G. Atherton, Gov. Ben-