The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-09-03

atoms.
23.-The road to October Noun
tain where is located the famous es-
tate OF the late William c. Whitney,
comprising $4,000 acres of primeval
forest, at one time stocked with buff
falo, elk, moose, deer and antelope
24-This point gives the best far
view of the Greylock Range, being
about 16 miles distant. The central
mountain in the group is Mount Grey
lock, whose summit, 3505 feet above
sea level. is the highest point in
Massachusetts.
25.-This famous pine tree stand
ing on the original Wendell estate
was a resort of DR.. Oliver Wendell
Holmes, during the summers he spent
in Pittsfield.
26.-For many years the home of
DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes. This es-
tate was originally owned by DR..
Holmes grandfather, Jacob Wendell,
one of the earliest settlers of Pitts
| field.
27.-The school house to the west
OF the track was formerly used by
| DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes as a
study. 1t is located on the estate
formerly owned by Col. Walter Cut
ting, now the home of Miss Halls
school for girls.
2S.-The Longfellow House. This
house was formerly the property of
Hon. Nathan Appleton OF Boston,
father-in-law of Henry w. Longfellow.
1t was here and concerning this place
that the latter wrote the poem, THE
| Old Clock on the Stairs"
29.-In the center OF this park once
stood the famous Berkshire Elm, 100
feet high. On the site of the church
opposite stood the meeting house of
Fighting Parson Allen" who led the
men of Berkshire to the Battle of
Bennington. On this green was held
in 1909 the first agricultural fair ever
neld in America, and here also Gen
eral de Lafayette was given recep-
ton in 1925.
30-A few rods east of this stood
Fort Goodrich erected in 1856.
91-Coltsville. The road to Dalton,
paper making town for over 100
years. and the mill where is made all
the paper used by the United States
Government for its currency.
32.-This spot marks the dividing
line between the water sheds of the
Housatonic and that of the Hoosac.
Water falling south of here flows in
to Long Island Sound. Water falling
north finds its way into the Hudson
and then to the Atlantic Ocean.
98-This road leads to Lanesbor-
ough Village. the birthplace of Josh
Billings" the American humorist, and
to Constitution Hill. the home of jon
athan Smith, the plain Berkshire far
mer. whose telling speech aided ma
terially in bringing about the adop-
ton of the Federal Constition by the
Massachusetts, Convention of 1888.
34.-The Village of Berkshire in
the town of Lanesborouph. Here was
started in 1858 the Berkshire Glass
Works, famous for making window
glass until the use of natural gas
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35.-Near this spot was made in
1901 THE Great Cheshire Cheece."
Weight 1885 pounds, one days pro-
duct of the towns diaries. Nodded in
a cider press. it was drawn by oxen
to Hudson, New York, and shipped
thence by water to Washington, d. c.
and presented TO President Thomas
Jefferson, as token of admiration from
the citizens of Cheshire.
96.-Cheshire. Named after Ches-
hire in England First settled in 1866.
Town government organized in 1898.
once produced 100000 lbs. of cheese
annually. Today a farming and min
ing town, producing the best iron ore.
the best glass sand and the best lime
known to the country.
37-Cheshire Harbor trail to Grey
lock. Distance Az miles to the sum-
NIT. The easiest and shortest trail to
Greylock mountain.
3S.-Staffords Hill. This road leads
to Stafford's HILL the site of the vii
lage of New Providence, founded by
settlers from Providence, Rhode Is
land, in. 1867. Once a lourishing VI
lage, hardly a trace of it remains
save the old cemetery.
39.-The Adams Trout Hatchery
Established by the State of Massa-
chusetts. 100000 trout are Matched
here annually to supply the brooks OF
Western Massachusetts.
4O--Adams, originally East Hoo
suck. Incorporated as town in 1918
and name changed in honor of Sam,
Adams, THE Father of the American
Revolution" In 1878 the township
was divided and North Adams was set