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From Dorset - In The Shadow Of The Mountain
An important early settler was Thomas Farwell, whose family was to build four houses in Dorset village. Farwell came to town with a land agent who could have been one of the many Lymans who were Benning Wentworth's proprietors. Farwell selected some land and built a crude cabin, then went back to Connecticut for the winter. He returned in the spring of 1770 with his brothers, Isaac, Asa and John, and their families. They drove thier yoke of oxen through Massachusetts, up the Connecticut River valley, and were astonished when they crossed the Green Mountains near Peru to encounter massive snowdrifts. There was also plenty of snow inside thier bark-roofed cabin, located on the south corner of the West Road and Church Street. But they shoveled out the place and heated it, and then they began to thrive
Soon four Farwell farms were located around that intersection, and by 1792 Asa Farwell was granted a license to operate a tavern in the house he built in 1777 on the northeast corner [now owned by Bea Jackson Humphreys]. The West Road was then a post road connecting Bennington and Vergennes; some of its original milestone markers are still in place.
Copyright by the Dorset Historical Society. Used with permission.
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