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A New Approach to Local Business History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

Leon S. Gay
Affiliation:
Cavendish, Vermont.

Extract

A few miles from my home, there nestles in the friendly atmosphere of the Green Mountains of Vermont a hamlet of fifty people, known as South Reading: just a sleepy little neighborhood now, but formerly a thriving, active community. Here were located a map-printing shop, several sawmills, a grist mill, a woolen mill, a chair factory, a smithery, and a tannery.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1947

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Editor's Note.—This paper was read at a session devoted to local history at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in New York, December, 1946.