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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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ghbor.This neighborliness forced out of our early society allsocial stratification and made Vermont as purely ademocratic state as one could easily find. Caste wasunknown, because all people did the same things. Theneighborhood was the social unit. The women had their cooperative work as well as themen. It took the form of quilting bees, house cleaning,preserving, and other forms of domestic economy, ofwhich we have still a vanishing trace in sewing circles,ladies aid societies, church suppers, and other activitieswhich now take the form of public charities rather thanof private industry. The young people also had commoninterests in mixed parties at the huskings and paring beesas well as in more purely social forms. 2IO HISTORY OF VERMONT Transition A. General Features Having traced in outline the conditions prevailing atthe middle of the last century we must at once remem-ber that those conditions did not remain fixed. You willfind in history that the height of advance of one genera-
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One-horse Chaise tion is usually — not always — the foundation on whichthe next one builds. For example, in one generation acity has omnibuses ; the next sees horse cars running onfixed tracks ; the next decade, perhaps, finds the horsecars supplanted by the electric trolley. The formermethods which in their day were a distinct advance are nolonger wanted, but are old-fashioned, wasteful, obsolete. FROM THE WAR OF 1812 TO THE Cl\ IL WAR 211 In a similar way in the history of Vermont we mustpass from stagecoach to raihoad, from the hand cardto the modern woolen mill. The change comes in theperiod we are now studying. From 1830 to the time of the Civil War the roughedges of pioneer life were being rounded off. Little bylittle new industries began to creep in and transforma-tions to occur in our simple communities. The littlecabins of logs gave way to the low, wide houses with the

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