Peru, Vermont

Bennington county. This is a Green Mountain township, high and broken. It contains two large fish ponds from which issue beautiful mountain streams. First settled, 1773. Population, 1830, 455. It lies 30 miles N.N.E. from Bennington and 30 S.W. from Windsor.

From Hayward's New England Gazetteer of 1839

Peru then, and now...

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