Connecticut western news., 1872-04-19
Lnkeviile as it vvns Sixty Years Since

There are but few residents of this village, or of the town even, who will recollect the appearance of the place as it was some sixty or more years since, and few, perhaps, who will care to see any attempt at a description of 1t in your paper Mir. Editor, and you arc at perfect liberty to make such disposition of this manuscript as you shall deem best, ito the flames, the waste basket or the columns of your jour- nal.
 To begin then at the north end of Lake vile School District. My first recollections of the place but recently occupied by Mr. J. Jones. were of an old, unpainted house, one and half stories in height the end facing the highway, and having 8 low stoop or piazza in front. owned and occu pied by a Mir. Lord, connected by marriage, if mistake not, with the famed lexicog- rapher, Noah Webster. Subsequently, Mir. Levi Barnum, worthy man and an honest shoemaker, built the house now standing there, since then owned and occu. pied by E. Buel, J. Wardwell, Henry Sage and others. The next south was large, square red dwelling house known as the Davis place, long public house of good repute. The present building was erected by one of the family, and since purchased by hr. E. Foster, and now owned by Mrs. J. 5. Perkins. On the next south, now owned by G. c. Dodge was an unpainted house owned by MT. Holmes; subsequently by Dr. J. R. Dodge, the father of the present occupant phy- siciAn of extensive practice. His office stood for some years on the opposite side of the highway, and now forms part of this wing of the present dwelling. Drs. Benajsh and Luther Ticknor were two of large number of his students. On the west side of the highway from his office, to tbe stream issuing from the lake there was no dwelling or building of any kind, except a barn standing few rods south of Seth Waltons house. Passing down to the foot of the hill, there stood long. low, red building, the end toward the highway, occupied by Gen. E. Sterling, as 8 resi- dence. His law office stood northeast of the house, fronting the street leading to the more compact part of the village. Gen. Sterling afterwards built the house now owned by Mir. Bostwick, and moved his office to point near the large elm in MT. rA Tho, 1ox part of the dwelling opposite the hotel. After his removal to his new house, the old red building was occupied for some years by his son, w. c. Sterling, the west end of it as dwelling. and the other as a store. Gen. Sterling was Judge of Probate for the district of Sharon, also States Alt torney for Litchfield County, and Senator of the l7th District two sessions. He died in 1886. Mir. Bostwick purchased the Ster- ling property in l847, and more recently erected the double tenant house in its place.
 The next house of that period is the old house now owned by Miss Bradley; the only house in the village that has not been built or essentially remodeled within the limits of the writer's memory. This house was occupied by the widow of Joseph Can field, Esq, a lawyer, and the father of the late Lee Garfield, of Falls Village. The next was the Col. Porter house, at that pe- riod unpainted. Col. F. was 8 physician of some celebrity, long engaged also in pub lie business, and l think was for some years Judge of Probate for the Sharon dis trict, consisting of the towns of Canaan, Salisbury and Sharon. He died at the ad- vsnced age of 94, in 1925, Gen. Peter B. Porter, soldier of the war of 1872, and secretary of war under J. Q. Adams, was one of his sons, and the mother of ex Gov. Holley, one of his daughters.
 The next is the hotel, then a square-roof. ed house with one story kitchen part in the rear, and wing on the northeast end which was used as a store by Henry Fitch and Moore Chittenden. A part oi the cellar of the main house, (now the bar. room,) was occupied by them to store theil molasses and other liquid groceries. The hotel was owned and occupied by Petel Farnan. Mir. F. was man of sterling in. tegrity, and if mistake not, was the first post master in the town. The mails ir those days passed through the town but twice . week, passing north to Bennington Vt. early in the week and returning toward the close of the week to Fairfield, or one ot the towns on the shore of Long Island sound. MT. Farnan built in 1914 or 1915 the house recently owned by Grant Sweet, moving the store part of the hote to form the wing of the house. He died il 1916.
 The next building south was the stor, occupied by Luther Holley and his son John M. Holley, standing about where th sheds of Mrs. Holley now are. Just south west of the store stood an old house with
 long flight of stairs leading to the first floor owing suppose to the rise of the ground This was occupied when first knew it b, Dr. Dodge, prior to his removal to the hill J. M. Holley leveled of the ground an
 built the house now standing on that sit about 1908 or 1909, Mir. Holley was sut cessful merchant and manufacturer of iro1 and for many years associated with Mir. ] c. Cofang in both branches. He died i
 1886. N.
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