A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States . t is the meetinghouse on the right,the only white building -in tlu; village,which stands a few rods from the road,at the head of a large open lawn. On the left stands the trustees office,a new, spacious, and elegant buildingof lunvn graiute and ])r(;ssed brick, sev-enlv-two by forty feet in size. In thisthe trustees reside, and transact all thenvgular business of the family. To thisoHice customers, strangers, and visiters,are to npply. who wish to buy or sell, orfoi the transaction of any business withthe sociity whatmer. All sales and
A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States . t is the meetinghouse on the right,the only white building -in tlu; village,which stands a few rods from the road,at the head of a large open lawn. On the left stands the trustees office,a new, spacious, and elegant buildingof lunvn graiute and ])r(;ssed brick, sev-enlv-two by forty feet in size. In thisthe trustees reside, and transact all thenvgular business of the family. To thisoHice customers, strangers, and visiters,are to npply. who wish to buy or sell, orfoi the transaction of any business withthe sociity whatmer. All sales and purchases are made bythe trustees, who art; the general agentsof the society for transacting all theirsecular matters, and in whom the fee o^all the real estate in trust is held. The total number of dwellinghousesin th(^ society is ten, mostly of wood,painted yellow. There are also manyother large and convenient wooden andbrick buildings, occupied as workshops;also storehouses and granaries, wood-houses, barns, &c., which are spaciousand I, f fir ^:*. V;»# \\ 50 DKSCttUTlON OF THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. The wliole number of buildings inthe vilhige is abt>ut one hundred, manyof which are very vahiable, composedof the best materials, and built in afaithful and durablt! manner. Amongthese are a convenient schoolhouse, onespacious gristmill, two sawmills, threecarding-machines, one fulliugmill, onetriphammer, five mills for sawing fire-wood, three turningmills, and two tan-neries, besides various other buildings are all laid out andconstructed in a regular, plain, and ele-gant manner, which gives the village avery fine appearance. fhe society own and occupy upwardof 2,.3O0 acres of land, which, thoughstony, is a good deep soil, about 2,000of which lie in one body, enclosed withgood stone wall and cross-fenced withtlu! same materials. Grass, corn, grain,and potatoes, are raised in abundance. They are industrious, frugal, and tem-perate. They manufa
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