Date: 1883
Many New-Yorkers make their residence here, and it is a good deal resorted to in summer. "  Three miles east of the city," says a writer in "Picturesque America," "lies old and picturesque Stratford, where the new has not yet displaced the old, where the racket of mills and machinery does not vex the quiet-loving ear, or harrow the nerves of the sensitive ; and where one may dream away a summer twilight in the shadows of grand old trees, more ancient even than the quaint but stately bouses of the village.  These fine, ancient elms make up, together with broad reaches of the stately flousatonic River, the noblest