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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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here,but below are suggestions for trips: Up the Connecticut Valley toSpringfield, Mass., en route toBoston (see Rovite 49). To Manchester, a great mill town(a splendid trip), 9J£ miles, 49 min-utes from Hartford, 15 cents. To Sovitn Glastonbury, 10 miles,15 cents, one hours run. Here isthe Hollister House, built in 1675,south glastonbury, conn. said to be the oldest wooden house now standing in Connecticut.To Farmington, settled in 1640, where Miss Porters noted semi-nary for girls is situated, 9 miles, 15 cents. To Lake Compounce (a famous pleasuring ground), 20% miles,28 cents, or 22^£ miles, 31 cents, 2 hours run. Very full details in regard to these and other tours about Hert-ford and in fact all over Connecticut, etc., with much historicinformation, capitally arranged, is to be found in the admirablelittle handbook, Trolley Trips Through Southern New England,by White and Warner, Hartford, Conn., price 10 cents, which shouldbe purchased en route as a supplement to this volume.
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Connecticut and Massachusetts. 79 All the cars of Hartford, over one hundred an hour, pass in frontof the Square,1 which goes back to 1637. The City Hall, once theState House, was built in 1791 Two points of notable interest arethe Centre Church (1807), with its old burying ground (1640),and thewhite marble State Capitol standing in Bushnell Park. There is afamous Memorial Arch likewise, and along by way of Farmingtonavenue is Hartfords literary centre where Mark Twain, CMariesDudley Warner, Harriet Beecher Stowe and William Gillette longlived. In Hartford bicycles, Colt revolvers and Gatling guns have beenfamous products of manufacture. ROUTE 49. In the Connecticut Valley. Hartford toSpringfield, through EeLst Windsor Hill,Warehouse Point, Enfield, Long Meadow. Until quite recently there was a gap between these two cities,but recently this has been filled, and the Explorer can now make hisway from Connecticuts State Capitol into Western Massachusettswithout delay, in the very finest

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