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SAINT JOHNSBURY

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 19 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SAINT JOHNSBURY , a township and the See also:county-seat of See also:Caledonia county, See also:Vermont, U.S.A., on the Passumpsic See also:river, about 34 M. E.N.E. of See also:Montpelier. Pop. (189o) 6567; (1900) 7010; (1910) 8098; of the See also:village of the same name (1900) 5666 (1309 See also:foreign-See also:born); (1910) 6693. See also:Area of the township, about 47 sq. m. Saint Johnsbury is served by the See also:Boston & See also:Maine and the Saint Johnsbury & See also:Lake See also:Champlain See also:railways. The farms of the township are devoted largely to dairying. In the village are a Y.M.C.A. See also:building (1885); the Saint Johnsbury See also:Academy (1842); the Saint Johnsbury See also:Athenaeum (1871), with a library (about 18,000 volumes in 1909) and an See also:art See also:gallery;the See also:Fairbanks Museum of Natural See also:Science (1891), founded by See also:Colonel See also:Franklin Fairbanks; St Johnsbury See also:Hospital (1895); Brightlook Hospital (1899, private); the large scales manufactory of the E. & T. Fairbanks See also:Company (see FAIRBANKS, See also:ERASTUS), and also manufactories of agricultural implements, See also:steam hammers, See also:granite See also:work, See also:furniture and carriages. There are two systems of See also:water-See also:works, one being owned by the village. The township of Saint Johnsbury was granted to Dr See also:Jonathan See also:Arnold (1741–1793) and associates in 1786; in the same See also:year a See also:settlement was established and the See also:place was named in See also:honour of See also:Jean See also:Hector Saint See also:John de Crevecceur (1731—1813), who wrote Letters of an See also:American See also:Farmer (1782), a glowing description of See also:America, which brought thither many immigrants, and who introduced See also:potato planting into See also:France.

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government was organized in 1790, and the village was incorporated in 1853. ST JOHN'S WORT, in See also:botany, the See also:general name for See also:species of Hypericum, especially H. perforatum, small shrubby See also:plants with slender stems, sessile opposite leaves which are often dotted with pellucid glands, and showy yellow See also:flowers. H. Androsacnium is Tutsan (Fr. tout saine), so called from its healing properties. H. calycinum (See also:Rose of See also:Sharon), a creeping plant with large almost solitary flowers 3 to 4 in. across, is a See also:south-See also:east See also:European plant which has become naturalized in See also:Britain in various places in hedges and thickets.

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