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Farming, planting orchards, and growing fruit was popular. There were 17,740 fruit trees . Shelburne's economy is based on farming

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Steamboats became important to transport people and supplies. The Shelburne Shipyard was established

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Captain Harrington  built the first church in Shelburne called the White church

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Settlers cleared the land and burned trees. A product called potash was created from the ashes. Potash was used to help make glass. It was shipped to England.

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Captain Benjamin Harrington arrived in Shelburne. He bought a large farm in Shelburne Village. It is now called the Harrington  House. The first mill was built by James Hawley at Shelburne

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Thomas Logan and John Potter began trading lumber with Canada

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Shelburne became a town