A pictorial description of the United States; embracing the history, geographical position, agricultural and mineral resources .. . ect is the meetinghouse on the right,the only white building in the 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 hewn granite and pressed brick, sev-enty-two by forty feet in size. In thisthe trustees reside, and transact all theregular business of the family. To thisoffice customers, strangers, and visiters,are to apply, who wish to buy or sell, orfor
A pictorial description of the United States; embracing the history, geographical position, agricultural and mineral resources .. . ect is the meetinghouse on the right,the only white building in the 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 hewn granite and pressed brick, sev-enty-two by forty feet in size. In thisthe trustees reside, and transact all theregular business of the family. To thisoffice customers, strangers, and visiters,are to apply, who wish to buy or sell, orfor the transaction of any business withthe society whatever. All sales and purchases are made bythe trustees, who are the general agentsof the society for transacting all theirsecular matters, and in whom the fee ofall the real estate in trust is held. | The total number of dwellinghousesin the society is ten, mostly of wood,painted yellow. There are also manyother large and convenient wooden andbrick buildings, occupied as woi-kshops;also storehouses and granaries, wood-houses, barns, &c., which are spaciousand y flllif^i^V^ m :/)?« 42 DESCRIPTION OF THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. The whole number of buildings inthe village is about one hundred, manyof which are very valuable, composedof the best materials, and built in afaithful and durable manner. Amongthese are a convenient schoolhouse, onespacious gristmill, two sawmills, threecarding-machines, one fullingmill, 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. The society own and occupy upwardof 2,500 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 withthe same materials. Grass, corn, grain,and potatoes, are raised in abu
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