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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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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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An Old Turnpike Tavern great brick chimneys and fireplaces. The old hill roads,stage roads as they are still called in the vernacular,were the lines of busiest thoroughfare only until the rail-road came. The industries of the valleys grew moreand more felt; the more level if less scenic river roadsmade their appearance ; and some of the old hill townspassed the climax of their glory and began to decline. Not a few towns in the state had a larger populationin 18 10 or 1820 than they had in 1850 or i860, or haveeven to-day, and three entire counties — Orange, Wind-ham, and Windsor — declined between the census of 1810 212 HISTORY OF VERMONT and that of 1900. Addison County had a larger popula-tion in 1830 than in 1900. The population of the entirestate remained practically stationary from 1850 to i860.In fact, if you look at the census tables you will findthat the decade between 1820 and 1830 was the last onethat shows any marked increase of percentage in thepopulation of the state.

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