Identifier: trolleyexploring00chil (find matches)
Title: Trolley exploring : an electric railroad guide to historic & picturesque places about New York, New Jersey, and New England
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Childe, Cromwell
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Publisher: Brooklyn, N.Y. : Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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ien, Saugatuck.Norwalk and FaJrfield were in existence long before thosedays. Connecticut and Massachusetts. 73 Norwalk goes back, as a matter of fact, to 1640. A briskConnecticut city (rather two cities, Norwalk and South Nor-walk, proud of their manufactures), it does not show its an-tiquity to the casual observer or to the passer through its mainstreets, save in the many quaint old cemeteries scattered every-where in the centers and perched on hilltops. These make theNorwalks somewhat interesting places. Norwalk is trulycelebrated, Washington having written about it in his diary. Astone, easily seen en route, marks the site of the founding ofthe town, and there is a good red brick Town Hall, built in1835, that should have a glance. Darien, too, is anciently historic. It is not until Fairfield isreached, nevertheless, that the historical climax is capped forthis stretch of shore. Fairfield is not only one of the mostbeautiful of Connecticut towns but* it is filled with annals of 76.
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THE VALLEY OF THE CONNECTICUT. General Tryon, the Britisher, burned it. The old Benson Tavernwas for many a long year a favorite hostelry of the BostonPost Road, and it still stands. Here there are memories ofPeter Parley. Katharine M. Abbott, in her little hand-books, haswritten most entertainingly and fully of these Connecticut towns,and the small pocket volumes are to be had in nearly all theNew England book shops. Fairfields Court House was builtin 1720, destroyed by the British in 1779, and rebuilt 1794. There is, too, in this range of towns Sovithport, whose at-traction is the extremely fine Pequot Library, with its manyrare books on the Pequot Indians. Miss Abbott says: **ThePequots, whose day of power ended on the spot where theLibrary stands. From Noroton it takes two hours and a half to get intoBridgeport, and the fare is forty cents (45 cents from StamfordDepot, 25 miles). Much beautiful countryside is passed through,the trolley running along a shady highway, between fields

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