SAINT JOHNSBURY

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SAINT JOHNSBURY , a township and the county-seat of Caledonia county,

Vermont

VERMONT

, U.S.A., on the Passumpsic river, about 34 M. E.N.E. of Montpelier. Pop. (189o) 6567; (1900) 7010; (1910) 8098; of the

village

VILLAGE

of the same name (1900) 5666 (1309 foreign-born); (1910) 6693. Area of the township, about 47 sq. m. Saint Johnsbury is served by the Boston & Maine and the Saint Johnsbury & Lake Champlain railways. The farms of the township are devoted largely to dairying. In the

village

VILLAGE

are a Y.M.C.A. building (1885); the Saint Johnsbury

Academy

ACADEMY, GREEK
ACADEMY, ROYAL

(1842); the Saint Johnsbury

Athenaeum

ATHENAEUM

(1871), with a library (about 18,000 volumes in 1909) and an art gallery;the Fairbanks Museum of Natural Science (1891), founded by Colonel Franklin Fairbanks; St Johnsbury

Hospital

(1895); Brightlook

Hospital

(1899, private); the large scales manufactory of the E. & T. Fairbanks Company (see FAIRBANKS, ERASTUS), and also manufactories of agricultural implements, steam hammers, granite

work

WORK

, furniture and carriages. There are two systems of water-works, one being owned by the village.
The township of Saint Johnsbury was granted to Dr Jonathan

Arnold

ARNOLD
ARNOLD, BENEDICT (1741-1801)
ARNOLD, GOTTFRIED (1666-1714)
MATTHEW
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MATTHEW
(1822-1888)
ARNOLD, SAMUEL (1740--18o2)
ARNOLD, SIR EDWIN (1832-1904)
ARNOLD, THOMAS (1745-1842)

(17411793) and associates in 1786; in the same year a settlement was established and the place was named in honour of Jean Hector Saint John de Crevecceur (17311813), who wrote Letters of an American Farmer (1782), a glowing description of America, which brought thither many immigrants, and who introduced potato planting into France. The township government was organized in 1790, and the village was incorporated in 1853.
ST JOHN'S WORT, in botany, the general name for species of Hypericum, especially H. perforatum, small shrubby plants with slender stems, sessile opposite leaves which are often dotted with pellucid glands, and showy yellow

flowers

FLOWERS, ARTIFICIAL

. H. Androsacnium is Tutsan (Fr. tout saine), so called from its healing properties. H. calycinum (Rose of Sharon), a creeping plant with large almost solitary

flowers

FLOWERS, ARTIFICIAL

3 to 4 in. across, is a south-

east

EAST
EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

European plant which has become naturalized in Britain in various places in hedges and thickets.

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