By 1875, Winooski was a thriving village with a post office, sawmill, grist mill, general store, village hall, cooper, blacksmith and woodworking shops, a cheese factory, and a dozen houses. Its first settlers were James and Lucinda Stone of Winooski, Vermont, who arrived in 1846, followed by Survarnard Jewett, Fred Joerns, John Hobbs, and Captain Jonathan K. Walker, who was immortalized by John Greenleaf Whittier as "The Man With The Branded Hand."