History of Litchfield County, Connecticut

Description

Includes hand-drawn sketches of villages!
Litchfield County, Connecticut
The early days of Litchfield County, CT, and its various communities -- Litchfield, South Farms, Northfield, Milton, Barkhamsted, Bethlem, Canaan, Colebrook, Cornwall, Goshen, Harwinton, Kent, New Hartford, New Milford, Norwalk, Plymouth, Roxbury, Salisbury, Sharon, Torrington, Wolcottsville, Warren, Washington, Watertown, Winchester, Clifton, Winsted, Woodbury, etc. -- are recalled through a mixture of colorful tales and factual data in this
NEW 45-Page Booklet
reprinted from the 1836 edition of John Warner Barber's Connecticut Historical Collections.
The 8 1/2 x 11" spiral-bound booklet
is printed one-sided on quality paper, with the fine print enlarged for easier reading. A sheet of clear vinyl has been added to protect the front cover.
The booklet is illustrated with a map and Barber's delightful hand-drawn sketches, such as the one on the cover below. These Illustrations include Litchfield, Hitchcocksville, Bethlem, the Housatonic Falls, Colebrook, South Cornwall, Goshen, the Episcopal Church in Kent, New Hartford, Norfolk, Plymouth, Roxbury, the churches in Salisbury Center, Gov. Smith's house, Wolcottville, Watertown, the Trumbull House, Clifton, Winsted, Bethel Rock and the grave of Fisher Hartshorn in Woodbury.
Among the many and varied topics in the booklet are:
Early settlers, industries and churches; Inscriptions, news extracts and extracts from town records; Encounters with Indians by Capt. Jacob Griswould and Joseph Harris; Mount Tom, Great Pond, Old Apple Tree, Bradleyville Mineral Spring, Bethel Rock, Houstanic Falls, Colt's Foot Mountain and Bare Spot Mountain; Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys; Oliver Wolcott, signer of the Declaration of Independence; Roger Wolcott, governor of Connecticut; Strange happenings -- robbery, murder, plagues, counterfeiting, tar and feathering, etc.; Joseph Bellamy, D.D., famous preacher and writer; the Foreign Mission School at Cornwall, Scatacook Indians, the Moravian Mission in Kent and Indians at New Milford; Dr. Sylvanus Fansher, medical researcher; Iron mining in Salisbury; John Trumbull, author; and many other intesting bits of history and trivia.
Wouldn't this make a unique gift?