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Identifier: trolleytripsthro04hart (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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Davenport, $1; restaurant) This spick-and-span town of STAMFORD has several hand-some buildings, the Town Hall being an especially fine structure. In Atlantic Square, we board a Norwalk car, which twistsits way thro NOROTON, DARIEN, and ROWAYTON. ROTON POINT has a great reputation as a picnic resort. ROTON POINT PARK The Park has been generously accorded the credit of being theprettiest spot on the Connecticut coast. Mr. and Mrs. Trolleyist,stop over and decide this point. Here are a spacious, sandy beach, pleasant woodlands, and agrove for picnicers. Here are, too, the usual attractions to wilethe day away, viz.: athletic field, dancing pavilion, roller coast-ers, bowling alleys, and all the amusements of a lesser ConeyIsland with the objectionable features left out. There are some500 bathhouses. Motor boats are here, and steamboats run acrossthe Sound and to the big cities. There is hero that rarity among shore resorts—a c.ood restau-rant. For Trolley Timetables—See Back of Book
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Fairfield is a typical New England VillageNORWALK, CONN. (HOTEL: Norwalk, ?1; restaurant) Quiet, sleepy NORWALK has an old-town charm all its own.The name of the town is of Indian origin, and means a pointof land. Here, near old Fort Point, east of the river, the firstwhite settlers located on the plain. Take here the Bridgeport car, which passes Norwalk Green.The route now goes thro WESTPORT and SOUTHPORT. Thescenery is interesting, with occasional glimpses of Long IslandSound, and in Southport fine old houses. Roger Ludlow, intimate of Hooker, came to the spot now calledFAIRFIELD at the head of a band of pioneers in 1639. Landwas purchased of the Indians, and with great foresight thevillage was platted just as seen to-day. Among the things tosee here may be mentioned the Judge Roger M. Sherman man-sion (The House with the Sixty Closets); the Four Houses leftstanding after the burning of Fairfield; Old Powder House(preserved by the D. A. R.) ; and the site of the whipping postand sto

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