Statistics and Gazetteer of New-Hampshire, 1875, page 380

GAZETTEER.

Churches and Schools. Advent,

--; Baptist, Rev. T. B.

Eastman, pastor; Freewill Baptist,

--. There are five schools;

average length, for the year, elev- ^r

en weeks.

First Settlement. This town was
granted to Eli Demeritt, Septem-
ber 23, 1763, under the name of
Peeling. It was subsequently
called Fairfield, and again changed
to Peeling. In 1804, it took the
name of Woodstock. John Riant
and others commenced the first
settlement in 1773.

Boundaries. North by Lincoln,
east by Thornton, south by Thorn-
ton and Ellsworth, and west by
Warren, Benton and Ellsworth.

Area, 33,359 acres; area of im-
proved land, 2,540 acres.

Distances. Seventy-three miles
north from Concord, and twenty-
one north from Plymouth.

Railroad. Eight miles to War-
ren station, on the Montreal Rail-
road.

is a beautiful cascade, where the
waters glide smoothly on a glassy
surface of rocks or tumble in a
foaming cataract a distance of two
hundred feet. Grafton mineral
spring is in this town and its wa-
ters are strongly impregnated with
’ sulphur and other mineral sub-

Employments. The inhabitants
are employed in farming, in the
summer, and lumbering in the
winter. There is one large tan-
nery, which produces leather to
the value of $ 75,000 annually.
Nearly all the lumber cut in town
is floated down the river in the
logs. Clapboards, shingles, and
boards are sawed, to the value of
$ 4,800 annually.