Fayville a logging community located in the northwest corner of Glastenbury . It was probably named for Samuel Fay, a proprietor still active in the 1820s. In federal censuses between 1820 and 1860, Fayville averaged fifty residents, who made their living cutting trees and processing them in a sawmill operated by the Eagle Square Company of South Shaftsbury, a pioneering Vermont industry. Take East Rd out of Bennington to Glastonbury Rd There is an unsigned dirt road off Glastenbury RD in Shaftsbury, VT. About 150ft down the road is a sign that states that it is a Trail and unmaintained by the township. As you proceed up the very rough rocky trail, there is a clearing that was once booming logging town of Fayville.
You will see the old foundations, Apple trees, iron bands, old horseshoes, and other various relics that hinted at human habitation once being way up here and much more.
In the final decade of the 19th century, two murders took place in Glastenbury, and in neither case did justice prevail. In Fayville, on the evening of April 4, 1892, John Crowley, 38, a “jobber” at the Eagle Square sawmill, was murdered by Henry McDowell, another mill worker. Most versions of the story agree that an argument followed a night of heavy drinking and McDowell, who used the alias William Conroy, fatally struck Crowley with a chuck of firewood.. McDowell fled town,rode freight cars to Canada, and finally turned himself in at South Norwalk, CT. where he made a full confession. However, he was babbling on about voices in his head that wouldn’t leave him alone, and as a result, was sentenced in the Vermont State Asylum in Waterbury. But he escaped by hiding in a railroad car carrying a load of coal, never to be seen again. Some say he returned to Glastenbury, and others claim that he still remains hiding on the slopes to this very day. But by now, he would be an impossibly old man, which takes on an eerie resemblance to the tale of Doctor Benton coming from the mountains of New Hampshire.
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