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Title: What to see in America
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940
Subjects: United States -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company London, Macmillan and Co., limited
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Edwards, settled in 1751 toassist in converting several hundred Indians who lived there.His grandson, the notorious i\aron Burr, spent a part of hisboyhood in the town. Cyrus W. Field, who laid the firsttelegraph cable across the Atlantic, was born in Stockbridge.His father was the minister. At one time the vicinity wassuch a resort of notable writers that it was called a jungleof literary lions. Among the rest was Hawthorne, whocame in 1850 to dwell with his family in a little red housein Stockbridge just over the line from Lenox. While therehe wrote The Wonder Book, which boys and girls haveread with delight ever since. Stockbridge and Lenox areboth famous summer resort towns, and there is not a hilltopnor a valley in the latter place but has its splendid mansionsand far-flung attendant gardens. Massachusetts people are popularly called Bean-eatersfrom an old-fashioned New England habit of making a regtjfarSunday meal of baked beans prepared on the day before toavoid Sabbath labor.
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The Ancient Gristmill at New London Connecticut In the autumn of 1633, men in a little vessel fromPlymouth sailed up the Connecticut and built a trading-house at Windsor. Within two years settlements had beenstarted at both Windsor and Wethersfield, and a fewmonths later Hartford was founded by a party of sixty^ men, women, and children who marched overland from thevicinity of Boston, driving their cattle and swine beforethem. About this time Lieut. Lion Gardiner with thirtymen built a wooden fort and some houses at the mouthof the river, and called the settlement Saybrook. TheLidians went on the warpath in the autumn of 1636 andcaptured two Saybrook men who had gone out huntingwildfowl, and the cows sometimes returned from pasturewith arrows sticking in their sides. The fort was be-leaguered through the winter. In April the Pequots killedE 49 50 What to See in America

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