Identifier: summerhomesamong03cent (find matches)
Title: Summer homes among the mountains on the Central New England railway ..
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Central New England railway company. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: (Pittsfield, Mass., Sun printing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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owoccupied by the buildings of the Hotchkiss School, a college prepar-atory school for boys, founded in 1891, through the beneficence ofMrs. Maria H. Hotchkiss. Lakevilles population is a thousand; but it has excellentchurches, libraries and physicians, a substantial and commodioushouse of amusement, telephone and telegraph lines, stores, bankingconcerns, public water supply, liveries, and so on, such as largertowns possess. The Harlem Division of the New York Central Railroad con-nects with the Central New England Railway at Millerton, and theBerkshire Division of the New York, New Haven and HartfordRailroad with it at Canaan, thus making connections on both hands. Though Lakeville makes her chief claim to attention on thescore of her unsurpassed scenery, there are besides this many asso-ciations of historic interest. The first blast furnace for smeltingiron ore erected in Connecticut stood near the center of the presentvillage, on the spot that has been occupied continuously by some
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kind of manufacturing interest for a hundred and fifty years. In1762 one of the proprietors of this furnace was Ethan Allen, after-wards famous in Vermont. Here, during the Revolution, cannonand shot were cast for the use of the American army. On Town Hill stands a ruined stone house, called the Montgom-ery House, once honored, so tradition says, by the presence of thegeneral of that name who fell before Quebec. Salisbury, in the comparatively short course of her history, ahundred and seventy-five years or so, has furnished more than hershare of distinguished men to this and other States, among them atleast four governors of States, two lieutenant-governors, and manyclergymen, lawyers and soldiers of distinction. The natural attractions are innumerable. Here are a few ofthem: Iron mines, operated since 1732; the almost deserted villageof Mt. Riga, elevated nearly 2,000 feet above sea level; miles andmiles of beautiful drives; the falls of the Housatonic at FallsVillage, sixty feet hig

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