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Title: A history of Vermont, with the state constitution, geological and geographical notes, bibliography, chronology, statistical tables, maps, and illustrations
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Collins, Edward Day, 1869-1940
Subjects: Vermont -- History
Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Ginn and company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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fields of activity whereverthey opened, and have carried the leaven of the GreenMountain State into many new commonwealths and toall quarters of the globe. The opening up of the North-west and Indiana territories — Ohio, Indiana, Illinois —and, after the Louisiana purchase, the opening up ofthe territory west of the Mississippi, drew heavily on theEast. When cotton and woolen factories began to risein Massachusetts and Rhode Island many of the girlsand boys began to feel that farm life was drudgery, andthat the city had something better for them ; and sothey went, for better or for worse. Then, just at themiddle of the century, the discoveries of gold in Cali-fornia sent a fever for sudden wealth into every townand hamlet of the East, and men went to the Pacificslope to make slaves of themselves for gold and dross.If we should undertake to write the history of the peopleof Vermont from this point, it would take us into almostevery state and territory of the Union, into the mining
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THE NEV/ YORKPUBLIC LIBRARY ASrO«». L^NOX FROM THE WAR OP^ 1812 TO THE CIVIL WAR 213 camps of the West, to the seas, and to the lands that hebeyond the seas. So for the remainder of this chapterwe must Hmit our story strictly to the geographicalboundaries of the state, and note only what went ontherein in a few lines of development. B. Agriculture Vermont remained primarily an agricultural state, andof her agricultural interests the production of wool wasby far the most important single item up to the CivilWar. We have already spoken of the textile arts prac-ticed in every home, and have indicated the changeswhich had begun, even before the War of 1812, in themanufacture of cotton and woolen. W^hen every homewas a woolen mill in embryo, every farmer was naturallya shepherd ; and sheep breeding did not cease to bean important industry when the process of manufacturechanged,—the market for wool remained. The first sheep commonly bred here were a hardybreed of English sheep, raised b

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