The Granite Monthly Volume 16; A New Hampshire Magazine (Paperback)


This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...It is for this reason that Lebanon has never receded from her position in the front rank of New Hampshire towns, and though the prophecy of that inspired orator who preceded Daniel Webster, when the railroad was opened, may not yet have been fulfilled, there is no occasion for regret. Lebanon is not abominably big, but it is undeniably busy. From out of its many factories come flannels and farm machinery, watch-keys and woollen goods, knit fabrics and gans, furniture, and shirts. All coma valley far over to the very extremity ders, which by ment reach the the Connecticott falls, is a power devoted t u r e of wood themselves beted in Vermont, a moment be Lebanon is a community t o the agricultural interests. Better farms are nowhere found than here. The bioad intervales of the Connecticut, the sunny swales along Mascoma's shores, and the hill-tops rising from the watercourses, are dotted with fine farms. In one respect Lebanon agriculture deserves especial notice: It was Deacon Elisha Ticknor, of this town, who first made this community acquainted with the virtues of the merino sheep. What this town owes to its business men it can never fully estimate. They are the parties responsible for its growth, its wealth, its enterprise. And the strangest of all things in this connection is that of them all, bankers, editors, manufacturers, and merchants, Rev. C. A. Downs overalls, orstaircasings, these the Masproduces, and west, on the of the town borcurious enactwest bank of cut river, at OImagnificent to the manufacpulp, the mills ing partly locaIt must not for supposed that manufacturing the exclusion of almost none of them are natives of the town. The natives of the town have been raised, it seems, almost exclusively for export, and among Lebanon's contribution t...

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...It is for this reason that Lebanon has never receded from her position in the front rank of New Hampshire towns, and though the prophecy of that inspired orator who preceded Daniel Webster, when the railroad was opened, may not yet have been fulfilled, there is no occasion for regret. Lebanon is not abominably big, but it is undeniably busy. From out of its many factories come flannels and farm machinery, watch-keys and woollen goods, knit fabrics and gans, furniture, and shirts. All coma valley far over to the very extremity ders, which by ment reach the the Connecticott falls, is a power devoted t u r e of wood themselves beted in Vermont, a moment be Lebanon is a community t o the agricultural interests. Better farms are nowhere found than here. The bioad intervales of the Connecticut, the sunny swales along Mascoma's shores, and the hill-tops rising from the watercourses, are dotted with fine farms. In one respect Lebanon agriculture deserves especial notice: It was Deacon Elisha Ticknor, of this town, who first made this community acquainted with the virtues of the merino sheep. What this town owes to its business men it can never fully estimate. They are the parties responsible for its growth, its wealth, its enterprise. And the strangest of all things in this connection is that of them all, bankers, editors, manufacturers, and merchants, Rev. C. A. Downs overalls, orstaircasings, these the Masproduces, and west, on the of the town borcurious enactwest bank of cut river, at OImagnificent to the manufacpulp, the mills ing partly locaIt must not for supposed that manufacturing the exclusion of almost none of them are natives of the town. The natives of the town have been raised, it seems, almost exclusively for export, and among Lebanon's contribution t...

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May 2012

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246 x 189 x 8mm (L x W x T)

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140

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978-1-236-28195-1

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9781236281951

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