Litchfield enquirer., 1872-09-19
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Ri Under the foregoing head 6 correspond ent of the New York Evening Post speaks of the Shepaug Railroad Ca portion of his remarkswe quoted last week. and then gives the following sketch of this place: THE PROMINENT FEATURES or L1rcHr1E1D.
 Litchfeid is emphatically a city set upon a hill, for every road from the centre, north. south, east, west, leads down hill. Hhe site IS said to have been selected as a measure of protection against. the savages. and the brow of each declivity in each of the principal streets was marked in the early days by 8 block house. d These streets, respectively north, south, east and west, meet at right angles in an open space which was formerly common, but which is now partly enclosed in three little parks. The Mansion House and the United States Hotel both front on this square, the former looking north, the lat ter south. They are both above the average of country hotels, but are by no means what the place demands. A first class summer hotel here could not fail to pay. The county Court House and the jail also stand on the square. arr4n The village boasts of four churches. one each of the Congregational Episcopal. Methodist and Roman Catholic denomi- nations. The frst-named society is erect ing new place of worship on the same site lately occupied by the old one built in l62z, the latter having been moved on to new foundations, to be used hereafter as g public hall. The original church. built in 1723, stood in the centre of the green, where the flagstaff now is. This was succeeded in 1762 by q new one which soeeupied nearly the same site. This was the building in which Dr. Lyman Beecher
 The Episcopal Society dates from fl.ss 1745. The first church was built mile west of the village on land given. to the society by John Davies, of Kinton. .HertforasRire. England, who had settled in the neieh. borhood about ten years previnusly. He was the ancestor of Professor Charles Davies, of West Point. the well-known mathematician. The first Epiacopai ser vice performed iii the town was by pr. (now. ColumbiaI Collere in New York. The old church has Iong since disappeared, and ths present ss MichasIS $ a neai structure in the Gothic style, stands in @s&<<@ eAs &zAS psAAAAE VI hA&C Vk1AlhEGs ;Ihe rector of the parish is now the Rev. Dr. Q. g. Henry, late Professor of Phi lcsophy and History in the University oi
 The Roman Catholic church ,ihli is l,a, new hay. ing been built only about four syears. II is in charge of the Fathers of the Order o1 St. Francis, who have fIourishing monas. tery at Winsted, twelve miles north o1 Liteh6eld. s4ae5sEx $ 1g5aAeA 1I
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 < The visitor in Lifchfeld is struck ar frs, with the beauty of the stately .e1ms that
 bolder the broad, shady streets, and .nexi
 with the air of genteel antiquity which peryades every thinGs The spirit of modern improYement has made but little progress
 here. A distinguished professor in Tali
 College aaid, in the course of an ddress
 before n edncational meeting last spring. that there are two kinds of towns in New Englapd, live progressiye towns. [. ani Towns that ore dyinR of ] denikY. and pointed unmistakably to Eitch6eld ag al eyful example of the latter class. There
 m modenm of truth in the remark. .Ths ssafely noddlpg elms which have com, d0En HOm otheg generations, the broai greNn streefs, The quaint houses naany of Wlliich have entered npon l11rao fhei second centpl al MeeT m aif pf gentee anf.anpty Inc stfanger Wonld recogniz ltI ~ once e place pf eminent respecta A nnmher of tho dWellinea hav' cqnald hla aTohit tec8nF@I pxeteusion, ani mast have been regnrded sn their day a