HISTORY

Meade’s Pond Lake area
Lake

Meades pond was the original name for Lake Elmore

1915 Lake area Library 25
Morrisville Messenger 1/1 3/1 915 - The library board met Saturday at the town clerk’s office to select new books for the library. Mrs. Bert Merriam has presented the library with several books. The Pocohontas Club has presented the library with 63 books. In Historical Sketch (article 25) it is stated that a public library was established in 1913 by vote of the town with the assistance of the Free Public Library Commission. In 1939 it contained 600 volumes
1898 Merrian, H. W. Lake area
Plants
News and Citizen 11/2/1 898 - H. W. Merriam is going to present to 0. D. Bacon with enough plants of the Mt. Hunger roses to set out a large rose garden. These roses grow upon the further side of Mt. Hunger and their likes have never elsewhere been seen. They blossom continuously and the blossoms are said to be as large as peonies.

1873
Railroad
Vermont Citizen, May 15, 1873 - Parties from abroad are in town looking at the iron beds with a view of ascertaining their proximity to a railroad, should there ever be one built by the Pond. These beds have been sufficiently developed to determine their extent and quality of iron, both of which proved quite satisfactory.

1891 LeBarron, George East Elmore
Telephone
News and Citizen. 8/20/1891 - George LeBarron has put a telephone in his house. 8/6/1891 -

1885 East Elmore
Telephone
News and Citizen 1/1 5/1 885 - Telephone poles are set to Worcester and we will soon be in connection with Morrisville.

1885 Lake area
Telephone
News and Citizen 2/19/1885 - The question is often asked why the Pond folk don’t have a telephone to connect with some other place. The truth is there is much tongue power in the village we do not need the help of wire or bell to convey messages.

1897 Batchelder, E. L. Lake area
Temperance News and Citizen, Jan. 6, 1897
- “The Investigators will hold their next meeting at Joseph Camp’s and it is hoped all will be out. The Question for debate will be, Resolved, That Intemperance is productive of more hurt that the reading of bad literature. E. L. Bathelder and W. A. Spaulding gave their affirmation and F. S. Merrriam and G. M. Wiltshire gave their negative to it”

1866 Temperance Society
Temperance Soc

News Dealer - 1866 - Elmore: A Temperance Society of 70-80 persons have signed the “Pledge”. Some of the weaJthiest and most respectable of citizens are engaged in the temperance reform.

Early History of Elmore in Chronological Order

1 776-Colonel Samuel Elmore receives appointment to the army.

1780-Colonel Samuel Elmore and 64 others were given laud
grants in payment for their services in the
Revolutionary War.

1 791-Martin and Jesse Elmore, sons of Colonel Samuel Elmore of Ticonderoga and Revolutionary War fame, together with
James and Seth Olmstead and Aaron Keeler travel by
boat, pack train and foot from Sharon, Connecticut to
Lake Champlain, and up the Lamoille River to a branch
brook in Elmore.

1792-The first town organization is created with Joe Gibbs, James Olmstead and Joseph Leach as Selectmen.
1793-Henry Olmstead, son of Seth Olmstead, is the first white child born in the town of Elmore on May 14th.

1798-The first mill in Elmore is built. According to the First Book of Town Records, On June 27,

1798, it was “voted that the selectmen shall have the power to lease out to Joseph Leach and Isaac Leach the privilege of building a sawmill on pond brook in the highway.”

1800-James Mason and Sally Woods are the first couple to be married in Elmore. (James died in the War of 1812)
1813-First hotel is built in town by Seth Olmstead.

1836-The Methodist Church was built near the present day cemetery.

1863-East Elmore Post Office is established.

1865-The Town of Elmore puts 64 men into Union Blue. Sixteen men die in battle or in southern prison camps.

1872-Oliver Bacon supervises the moving of the Methodist Church from its position near the cemetery to its present location. This is accomplished on a cold January day using oxen and logs as rollers to steer it across the ice on Elmore Pond.

1890-From the Methodist Church History-Urban Woodbury, who lived in the next farm from the Bacon place, went away to fight in the Civil War during which he was wounded and lost one arm. When he returned, he studied law; entered the bar and in the

1890’s became Governor of the State of Vermont.

1895-Myron Spaulding decides to built a hotel on top of Mt. Elmore.

1897-A new town hall is built. W. A. Spaulding builds the General Store.