Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-01-02
IT SHELTERED WASHINGTON.
House at Rye Where the President
slept One Hundred Years Ago.

House at Rye Where the President
slept One Hundred Years Ago.
There Is house standing on the most
road, IN the village OF Rye, that is AN object
Qt.special interest, Ii sheltered President
dshlngton 100 years ago On Oct. Is.
ItS9, Washington left New FORK in his
coach, drawn by four fine horses, accom-
panied 10y his private and official secretaries.
Y was the beginning of that Journey 10
New England which the President desired
should be transformations. but which the
people Of all ranks made an occaS. On for the
expression of the love and reverence they
deeply felt. He arrived in the village of
Rye, distance of twenty-six miles from
New \ ork, in the latter part of the day.
and found rest for the night at the inn
kept at that time by Mrs. Haviland. name
not uncommon IN the neighborhood to-
day. This is the note in Washington s
journal, written at the evening hour:
Thursday, Oct -. 1889. After dinner.
through frequent light showers, we proceed
ed to the tavern of Mrs. Hayiland. at Rive.
who keeps very neat and decent inn.
TINS Is his entry concerning the road and
the impression made upon him bv The
country
The road for the greater part indeed.
the whole way was very rough and stony
bat the land strong well covered with
grass and luXmiant crop Of Indian corn.
The farms are very close together and
separated, as one inclosure also is from
another by fences of stone which are I'M
deed easily made, as the country is i'm
mensely stony. After passing Horseneck.
SIX miles distant least from Rye, the road
Is hllly and immensely stony, and trying
TO wheels and carriages
On his return, while spending the night
again at Mrs. Hayilaud's, Washington
writes in his journal:
The badness of these roads having been
described as ! went, | shall say nothing Of
them now.
How different would be his comments
could he ride over the same road today,
which has been macadamized so beauti-
fully
A few words about this quiet village
may be of interest to more than local
readers As one is carried by ON the swift
trains of the n. y. and n H. r. r. he is
not even aware that he is passing through
y llage much less that it is village
whose history is of more than ordinary
interest. 1t lies only about two miles from
the boundary sanaratino tho statas of Nau-
York and Connecticut TLe shore of tbe
Sound lyino not moro than a mile from
fine center of tha VILLAGE was favorife
resort of the Indians. who made am annual
encampmept or visit lone after the settle
ment of tbe VILLAGE
Evidences tbat the locality IF Rive Beach
was once Inhabited bv many Indians
aboupd Warlike and domestic innle-
meuts have Frequently bepn uneartbed g.
skeletons of Indians have been found in
various excavations. while tradition affords
many account, of their presence and
habit. But the proyimitv Of Rive 10 fine
state boundary lime and to the shore
of the Sound rendered the section debatabIe
oround armie. and shins beinu +be arou-
ments employed In turn by the Dutch the
British and the Americans. During the
revolution II law between the outposts of
the opposino forces Hastv and crnpl
incursi5ns were frenient 10 that NJ the
close Of tbe war the degolated homes and
the poverty of tbe people presented a
nitiable siGbt Need ,ye wonder. then.
that the Journey of the Great Deliverer
was made the occasion for even the most