History and description of New EnglandVermont . he dome was one hundred feet high. Thisedifice was burnt in January, 1857. The plan of the new building, nowin process of erection, is substantially the old one with some improve-ments. The wings and main building are each twelve and a half feetlong(T than those of the former edifice. The entire length of the frontis 17(5 feet, consisting of seventy-two feet for the main portion and fifty-two feet for each of the wings, which last are fifty feet eight inches depth of the main building is 113 feet, and of the front porticoeighteen feet, w
History and description of New EnglandVermont . he dome was one hundred feet high. Thisedifice was burnt in January, 1857. The plan of the new building, nowin process of erection, is substantially the old one with some improve-ments. The wings and main building are each twelve and a half feetlong(T than those of the former edifice. The entire length of the frontis 17(5 feet, consisting of seventy-two feet for the main portion and fifty-two feet for each of the wings, which last are fifty feet eight inches depth of the main building is 113 feet, and of the front porticoeighteen feet, which latter is sixty-four feet high,from the ground to thetop of tiie cornice. The dome rises about sixty feet above the ridge ofthe roof, making the entire height from the ground to the top of thedome 124 feet. This is surmounted with a female statue similar indesign to the patron goddess of agriculture. There are five church edifices — Episcopal, Methodist, Free Church, Ilif::. i! fiiiiiiiiiinll^ k ^.si!! iiiii ? Hill!., fi i# ^»*<t^. PUBLIC LlBRARTl t V ?/i AarOR, LENOX AN» fJTl ^ OUNPATlONgI -- (M^VdtMWMW* i VERMONT TOWN OF MORETOWN, ETC. 853 Congregational, and Roman Catholic; five school districts; one post-ollice ; the Washington County Grammar-School; the Montpelier UnionDistrict school; an insurance oilice ; two banks, with an aggregate capi-tal of $200,000 ; and five newspapers — the Vermont Watchman, Ver-mont Register, Green Mountain Freeman, Repository, and Patriot:also, a large lumber manufactory, an iron foundery, flour-mills, and man-ufactories of sashes and blinds, carriages and sleighs, hats and caps,furniture, and silver plate. Population in 1850, 2,310, which has in-creased to about 3,500; valuation, $1,066,797. MoRETOWN, near the centre of Washington county, eight miles south-west from Montpelier, was chartered by New Hampshire, June 7, 1763,to Josiah Forster and sixty-four others; and the settlement was com-menced, about 1790, by Panl Knap, Reuben,
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