Two Centuries of New Milford Connecticut. Various

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      Two Centuries of New Milford Connecticut

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4064066184025

Table of Contents

       ILLUSTRATIONS

       PART I THE PAST AND PRESENT

       INTRODUCTION

       GLIMPSES OF OLD NEW MILFORD HISTORY

       THE OWNERS OF NEW MILFORD

       TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO

       THE TWO ABIGAILS

       NEW MILFORD IN THE WARS

       RECOLLECTIONS OF OLD NEW MILFORD HOMES

       UNCHARTERED INSTITUTIONS

       TRAINING DAYS IN THE FORTIES AS TOLD BY AN “OLD BOY”

       ACTIVITIES OF NEW MILFORD IN LATER YEARS

       THE STORY OF NEW MILFORD TOLD IN CHRONOLOGICAL EPITOME

       RECORD OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES OF ROGER SHERMAN

       PART II THE BI-CENTENNIAL EXERCISES

       INCEPTION AND ORGANIZATION

       THE OPENING EXERCISES

       THE LOAN EXHIBITION

       THE OLD HOME GATHERING

       OUR FOREFATHERS

       THE SUNDAY EXERCISES

       THE AUTOMOBILE PARADE

       THE HISTORICAL MEETING

       THE COLONIAL RECEPTION

       GOVERNOR’S DAY

       THE AFTERMATH

       THE FINANCES OF THE CELEBRATION

       INDEX

ILLUSTRATIONS

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Roger Sherman; reproduced from a painting	Frontispiece
	FACING PAGE
Minot S. Giddings; Dr. George H. Wright; the Knapp Residence	4
Elijah Boardman	6
Congregational Church, with Residences of Rev. Nathaniel Taylor and Nathaniel Taylor, Jr.	14
Jehiel Williams, M. D.	18
Sally Northrop; David Curtis Sanford; Henry Seymour Sanford; William Dimon Black	20
The First Well in the Town of New Milford	24
Falls Bridge and the Gorge	28
Henry Stuart Turrill	44
Charles D. Blinn	54
Levi Sydney Knapp	74
Alanson N. Canfield	76
William J. Starr	80
New Milford Hat Company	84
Honorable Isaac Baldwin Bristol	86