The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-08-13
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 tors to Short Beach. Branford. to-day can hardly imagine what 1t was twenty, three years ago. when its pioneer cot. tagers. Mrs. Lavinia Hamilton of Hart. ford, and the Rev. A. H. simons bought the tract of land on the north of the little bay between Stanley Rock and kilam's. g nHs -'fsF !,
 Here Mrs. Hamilton and Mfr. simons reared two modest little cottages, look ing out to the little green island and the Sound beyond. They named the place Center Beach. lying as 1t did be- tween Double Beach and the beach where stands the Hotel Bristol. which had for years been called Short Beach. There were no roads in the vicinity, except one running from Branford to Double Beach. on the east: and anoth- CT. very rough and hilly, from Branford to the Bristol Hotel. on the west. A visit to these pioneers in those days meant business, for go whichever way one would. several gates had to be opened, and as many sets of bars taken | down, as no travelled road came within a quarter of mile of their cottages. It was here two happy families found | quiet and rest two summers before the outside world found them. Soon. how ever, some lads, From. Dick and liar ry." from the city. came out to camp under the elms on Stanley Point, who took home with them the notion of cot tage life in preference to tent. Conse- quently the next year three cottages were erected upon ''Rockland Park" owned by Mir. Reynolds. of New Haven, and Drs. Horton and Williams of Cheshire. Immediately Messrs. Hotch- Kiss and Gum, of New Haven, built an. other cottage in the rear of the present Bungalow" Ella Wheeler Wilcoxs) site, and so each succeeding year more cottages were built. Then came the scheme for a public road through to the city, since which time" Short Beach has rapidly grown.
 
 dred and fifty houses, two grocery stores, meat and fish markets, restau- rants, boarding houses, post-office and chapel, to say nothing of three lines of stages, which furnish one with the priv ilege of going or coming at almost any hour of the day.
 The Pioneer, the first cottage built, by Mrs. Hamilton, still stands, painted a pea-green, under the lofty elms; but its owner of so many years has gone to her eternal home. The other cottage, Little Woodbine, as 1t is called, has been changed over and forms a part of one of the more pretentious cottages owned by the Rev. MT. Simons.
 stanley Rock" the promontory on the west, so conspicuous and lovely, is the property of MT. Robert Stanley, of New Britain. Near by are his cottages, where he summers with his family.
 The first cottage in the line as you come on to the street from the west is that of the Rev, William DeLoss Love, D. D., who has for so many years been a faithful pastor of the Congregational church, and who is now in feeble health, seeking strength and vigor in his home by the sea- &c .t's-
 Next to MT. Loves cottage is the "Whippoorwill," occupied by Mrs. Will cox and family, of Hartford.
 Still further on Is the cottage where MT. Willis Hemingway and wife have summered for several years, and next door, in the "Woodbine," we find the Rev. William DeLoss Love, jr., of Hart ford. The next cottage is occupied by a Brooklyn party, the Misses Jones and friends. Just beyond is the Rev. A. H. Simons; also Prof. H. s. Osgood, Ph. D., of Columbia college.
 Then comes "Edgewood," the pleas- ant summer home of the genial cap tain, James w. Eldridge and family, of Hartford. Close by is the Pioneer" or Hamilton cottage, and farther among the trees is Shady Nook" owned by MT. Frank Hamilton, of Mer- ider: Across the way, on the water edge, is the cottage of MT. Stephen Bradley of East Haven.
 Passing on still further to the east one comes to the grounds of MT. Henry Killam, where there are several cot tages. Here relatives, sisters, cous- ins and aunts, luxuriate during the summer months. Away down on@ the Point are tents, where shepherds watch their flocks by night.
 A summer vacationist at Center Beach writs thus enthusiastically of this outing place: '"'The cottage where we dwell is on the main road running from New Haven to New London. The water from the bay almost washes its Just out quarter of a I mile lies Umbrella Island, and beyond that the rolling, heaving Sound. Near CT is Lovers Island, sweet spot, rock bound, with few green trees on it, nearly flat in surface and covered with a mat of bright green grass, which is out of reach of the high tides. Such a picture as these moonlight nights pre- sent to us cannot be found in any pie 1 ture gallery. Short Beach takes in one half mile or so of shore, which is varied and beautiful. , On a high bluff west of us, and overlooking the Sound for many miles, are several cottages, one of which is owned by the Methodist ! bishop, Goodsell, who has just returned l to it. He breaches occasionally during | the season at the little chapel close by, which was built mostly by, summer res dents, and where services are held eve ry Sabbath during the summer by cler- symen of different denominations"
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