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Town of Readsboro


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Readsboro lies in the southeastern part of Bennington County and is roughly bounded by Woodford on the northwest, Searsburg on the north, Wilmington on the northeast, Whitingham on the east (the preceding two towns in Windham County), Rowe on the southeast, Monroe on the south (the preceding two towns in Franklin County, Massachusetts), Florida (in Berkshire County, Massachusetts) on the southwest, and Stamford on the west. Readsboro was settled before 1790. The town of Readsboro includes the locales of Heartwellville, Readsboro, and Readsboro Falls.

In 1853, Zadock Thompson described the town of Readsboro as follows:
REEDSBOROUGH, a township in the southeast corner of Bennington county, is in lat. 42° 48' and long. 4° 6', and is bounded north by Searsburgh, east by Whitingham, south by Rowe, Mass., and west by Stamford and a part of Woodford. It lies 12 miles southeast from Bennington, and 18 southwest from Brattleborough. This township contains 20,480 acres, but the time and the source of the grant are not known. Its population, in 1791, amounted to 64 persons. The surface is considerably mountainous, and much of it unsuitable for settlement. The streams are Deerfield river, which runs along the eastern Boundary into Massachusetts, and a branch of this river, which runs diagonally through the township from northwest to southeast. These streams afford several mill privileges. The turnpike, from Bennington to Brattleborough, passes through the north part. There are here 4 schools, 4 saw and 1 grist mill. Statistics of 1840.--Horses, 424; cattle, 1,132; sheep, 2,679; swine, 508; wheat, bus. 249; barley, 178; oats, 4,050; rye, 386; buck-wheat, 752; Indian corn, 972; potatoes, 20,952; hay, tons, 2,146; sugar, lbs. 27,217; wool, 5,376. Population, 767.
(Source: Thompson, Zadock, 1796-1856. History of Vermont : natural, civil, and statistical ... / by Zadock Thompson. -- Burlington : Z. Thompson, 1853. -- pt. 3, p. 148)

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