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Bloomfield
lies in the eastern part of the county, in lat. 44º 48' and long.
5º 18’, and is bounded northeast by Lemington, southeast by the Connecticut
river, southwest by Brunswick and northwest by Lewis. The surface of the
town is uneven, presenting every variety of scenery, which from some of
the hills is truly grand and impressive. A few small
but very productive meadows are found on the banks of the Connecticut
and Nulhegan rivers, but in places the upland bluff extends to the
river. The meadows of William R. Silver and Milton Cook are fine
and in a high state of cultivation. Milton Cook has a fine herd of
Jersey cows and is a flourishing farmer.
A
good part of the soil is good, some very excellent. On the hills towards
the East and Black branches of the Nulhegan river is some very fine farming
land. Charles Cook owns a large amount of fine land and is a prosperous
farmer. He pays special attention to raising fat stock, and excels in this
vocation. There is considerable land only valuable for the growth of timber
and pasturage. The market for country produce at South Bloomfield and
North Stratford, N.H., directly opposite, is very good. The timber lands
are fast being denuded of their growth by the great capacity of the
Nulhegan Lumber Company. Much of the timber is also being put into
Connecticut river and sold to the lumber companies operating on the
same.
The
Nulhegan river and its tributaries, the East and Black branches,
with the Connecticut along its eastern front, constitute the rivers of
the town. Bloomfield is a pleasant and generally healthy place in
which to live. Its inhabitants constitute a community which is certainly
up to the average for intelligence, morality, and religion. It has
no place where intoxicating liquors are sold, and is consequently
free from that greatest curse of mankind as far as not to deal it
out to others. Unfortunately a very few are so unhappy as to sometimes
procure and imbibe the liquid poison from without the town.
Bloomfield
was chartered by Governor Benning Wentworth, June 29,
1762, under
the name of Minehead. The charter of the township was granted to
Rev. Noah Waddams and sixty-three others, in seventy equal shares, two
shares being granted to Governor Wentworth, one share to the Incorporated
Society for the Propagation of the Gospelin Foreign Parts, one share for
a glebe for the church of England, and one share for the first settled
minister, and one share for the benefit of a school in said town.
(Source:
Gazetteer of Caledonia and Essex Counties, VT.; 1764-1887, Compiled and
Published by Hamilton Child; May 1887)
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