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Identifier: trolleytripsthro05hart (find matches)
Title: Trolley trips through New England ..
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: New England -- Description and travel. (from old catalog) Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) -- Description and travel
Publisher: Hartford, Conn., Guyde publishing co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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edifice stated tobe the oldest store house in America, outside of St. Augustine,MADISON is an attractive community. A side road leads toMadison Beach, where are good hotels, and the usual semi-fashionable white-flanneled summer life. The State Game Farm If you would pass a pleasant day indeed—or half-day—alightin Madison and visit the State Game Farm. Ten minutes walkHere everything in wild life can be seen, and a day of rare en-tertainment passed. In CLINTON, just beyond the monument on the Green (whichmarks the place where Yale College was first begun,) is thelarge well-kept Colonial house, which contains the John Stan-ton collection of Connecticut antiquities. GROVE BEACH is so named, we perceive, from the closelywooded grovo that marches along the ridge a good half mile. Now we are whirled along but 300 yards from the water. Toour left lies the village of WESTBROOK, while the summercottages crowd along the water front, on the famous beach. 52 Trolley Trips Through New England
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Saybrook Light, Where the Connecticut Meets the Sound Just beyond the post oflSce our car crosses on a concretetrestle the railroad tracks at SAYBROOK JC. Carbarn andwaiting shelter are but three minutes walk from the depot.Westbound cars pass at 13 past, eastbound at .07, and con-venient connection either way may be made by train passen-gers. Side-trip up the Beautiful Connecticut At FERRY ROAD the up-river trolley parts company with theNew London car, and skips across country to ESSEX. Now up busy little Falls River to IVORYTON, which special-izes in ivory goods (such as piano keys), whence its name. Ourspeedy riverside run ends in thriving CHESTER village. Saybrook to New London — the shore wayLYME is one of the most attractive of the shore towns, andenjoys a superb climate. Every bit is picturesque, from riverto beach, and the old town has long been a haunt of artists,who come here year after year to paint the beauties of the shoreor inland. In early Fall an exhibit of their wor

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