Fair Haven, likewise on the Castleton River, which here furnishes abundant water power, is the leading slate producing town in the State.

Castleton, on the same river, has slate quarries and manufactories of slate. It is the seat of a State Normal School and is an attractive summer resort.

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East Dorset has marble quarries. At Dorset important conventions were held in 1776.

Manchester, a half shire town of Bennington County and seat of Burr and Burton Seminary, is a fashionable summer resort.

Shaftsbury has a manufactory of carpenters' squares.

Bennington, a half shire town of Bennington County, is a summer resort and a manufacturing town; it has beds of kaolin from which pottery is made and of ochre from which paints and paper filling are manufactured. Bennington is the oldest town on the west side of the State and contains a monument in memory of the battle which was fought near by in 1777. this town is the Vermont Soldiers' Home.

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Pownal is in the southwest corner of the State, on the Hoosac River. It has two manufacturing villages. Readsboro, on the Deerfield River, is the terminus. of a railroad, and has pulp mills and manufactories of lumber.

Waterbury has the Vermont Asylum for the insane.

City of Montpelier is the capital of the State and the shire town of Washington County. It has an United States Court House and a State Arsenal, and

does a large amount of insurance business. manufactories of machinery and of granite. Vermont Conference Seminary is located here.

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City of Barre, on a branch of the Winooski River, has the largest granite business in the State and is rapidly growing. It has two railroads and is the seat of Goddard Seminary.

Northfield on the Dog River has slate quarries from which roofing slate is manufactured. The Norwich University, a Military School, is located here.

Johnson on the Lamoille River has a State Normal School. Hyde Park is the shire town of Lamoille County and Morrisville is the largest village on the Lamoille River.

Of the summer resorts not already mentioned, the following may be named:-Middletown Springs, Clarendon Springs, the Iodine Spring in South Hero, Alburgh Springs, Sheldon Springs, Brunswick Springs; Lake St. Catherine in Poultney, Lake Bomoseen in Castleton, Lake Dunmore, the shores and islands of Lake Champlain-the larger of these islands are connected with the main land and with each other by bridges and furnish as fine drives as can be found in the United States-Lake Willoughby, Peru, Bread Loaf in Ripton, Hyde Manor in Sudbury, Dixon's in Underhill, Stowe. And, in addition it may be said that almost every town in the State is visited by the pleasure seeking tourist.

yet been mentioned. The most important of these are in New Haven, Essex, Fairfax, Craftsbury, Peacham, Thetford, Townshend, West Brattleboro. Bishop Hopkins' Hall in Burlington and St. Agnes Hall in Bellows Falls are schools for young ladies. Several academies have become associated with the public school system and are known indifferently as academies or as high schools.

The three colleges, the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College at Burlington, Middlebury College at Middlebury and Norwich University at Northfield, have been mentioned already.

Public libraries have been established in many towns. Those of Brattleboro, Bellows Falls, Cavendish, Windsor, Woodstock, Strafford, Thetford, Bradford, St. Johnsbury, St. Albans, Burlington, Pittsford, Rutland, Bennington and Montpelier, are some of the largest and best.

Four daily and nearly sixty weekly newspapers are published in the State, together with several monthlies.

Vermont has more than five hundred postoffices, and all important places are provided with telegraph and telephone offices.

The churches, with their Sunday schools, are another important educational agency. About one-third of the people of the State attend church on the Sabbath.