Identifier: trolleytripsthro01hart (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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FAIRFIELD A TYPICAL NEW ENGLAND STREET New York, 56 miles. NORWALK, CONN. Boston, 204 miles. Hotel: Norwalk (rooms $1 up; restaurant always open). Quiet, sleepy Norwalk has an old-town charm all its own. InNorwalk Square, at the end of our first route from New York,stands the fine old Norwalk House, with its high-pillared portico,reminiscent of stage-coach days and the good fare of old. 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, and here in East Norwalklived Col. Thomas Fitch:—when he led his soldiers in the battleof Crown Point, an English officer, in derision of the scanty andvariegated uniforms of his command, composed the immortalverses— Yankee Doodle came to town, Riding on a pony,Stuck a feather in his cap, And called him macarony. A macarony in that time was by way of being a dandy. Take here the Bridgeport car, which passes Norwalk Green,and with occasional

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