History · Bloomfield

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Mill pond, Bloomfield, Vt, 1859–1885 · Wikimedia Commons

The story

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In 1830, an act from the state General Assembly changed the name of the town from "Minehead" to "Bloomfield." The construction of Nulhegan Mill in 1849 created jobs and grew the town's population.

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