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Excerpt from Bolton: Some History and EventsIn 1840 there were fourteen houses in the village, 2 stores, 2 blacksmiths, 2'shoemakers, 1 tailor and 1 hotel, kept by Thos. Rogers.In 1842 James C. Bolton bought the mill property from George Bol ton and two years later moved the Mill to its present site. That was a tremendous undertaking at the time, as the big hill had to be cut through to build the race, and' a high race bank to be built right u...

Excerpt from Bolton: Some History and Events Like all new settlements the raisings, logging 'bees and quilt ings brought quite a lot of folk to gether and usually ended up with a dance, old man Phillips, a violin maker and a right smart player, of ten being the whole orchestra. In many places when a bee and dance was on a pail' of whiskey stood on the corner shelf in the kitchen with a dipper beside it and everybody helped themselves as they ...